registration for user role

I have quick hack for profile.module (which i use in my site), which give me this functionality (sort of). I have two new role for user - kníhkupec and spolupracovník (bookseller and contributor in english) and some constants for this role.

PROFILE_TYP_POUZIVATEL => 1 // simple authenticated user
PROFILE_TYP_SPOLUPRACOVNIK => 2 // contributor
PROFILE_TYP_KNIHKUPEC => 3 // bookseller

For table {profile_fields} i must define new column profile_type, which use this constants.

With this hacked module i can define different fields for each role.

I have some code that I am using on a site of mine. It's a module, so it doesn't need any core hacks at all, but it needs a load of work to make it flexable and secure enough.

If someone wants to have a look then I'll post the code, or I will try to update it and make it better myself.

Ps, at the moment my module works on the rid, not the role name, and I have just set up a path for it.

As for profiles, I am looking at using the new CCK profiles rather than the core profiles.

RE profiles: You're right, getting the registration sorted is key, with profiles following.

I will clean up my code today and post it later on. Here is what I have:

Roles with an option to allow new users to register for them - normal user creation, with the addition of the selected role, so they become an "authenticated user" as well as the selected role based on the URL.

This can't be done with form_alter on the role admin page because of some problems with the form in user.module. I've gone though this with chx on #drupal and the only way to fix it is to do a major rewrite of the user module. I'm not going to do this in a hurry, so I have opted for a different admin page!

user/register - lists all the roles that can be signed up for and link to the correct page.

More later.

Ok, after a bit of a clean up here it is.

I have had to grab the code from user.module to show the register form - maybe not the best way to do it. Other than that, it just used the standard access control and the rest is quite simple.

Thoughts?

You might want to change version to CVS as new features will never be added to stable 4.7.2 as per drupal policy.

You might also like to look at the previous discussions on this topic:

1.) Moshe suggests the following as a solution: http://drupal.org/node/42663#comment-80165
2.) Project Opus have done an implementation of this for their site. Please see comments from this one onwards: http://drupal.org/node/31656#comment-82284

Hope this helps.

This a module that doesn't touch the core, so there is no problem with it being 4.7.2 as I can just update the module to 4.8 in September.

The module uses hook_user as one of the links you posted said.

Thanks. Is this a patch to user.module or a separate module?

What I meant by cvs was that even if this patch is accepted, it won't make it to the tarball of 4.7.2 as it is a new feature, so CVS may be better.

no, it's not a patch, it's just a contrib module that can be added to any 4.7 install. Or at least thats what I hope it will be - it's not finished yet and I wouldn't advise anyone use it on a live site until it's been reviewed.

It doesn't need any tables, so just put it in /modules and enable it in admin/modules.

Great, thanks. I have always wanted this so I will be sure to try this out.

And feedback is welcome - more on the code side than anything else for the moment. :-)

good idea - but why not create a project for this module? :)

@the code (I only looked quickly)
cache your menu items -> only return them if $may_cache is true

My module is for 4.7 and it's not been tested on CVS, so it shouldn't be marked as CVS.

Changing back to 4.7

I am duplicating the user module code at the moment, but I might be able to change that. I will not do anything that needs a patch on the user module.

*bumping and subscribing for news

installed rolesignup.module on 4.7.2 but no luck:

when browsing to /admin/settings/rolesignup i get a Page not found error.

Did anybody tried this module later than 4.7, or went further somehow in the development?

Hi,

I made rolesignup for a 4.7.2 site, but it's now working on 4.7.3. I'm not sure why you're getting the page not found, but I don't think you'll need to use it - I think I changed the settings to hook_perm so you should be able to go to your access control page.

Note that this isn't a project at the moment. I have CVS access but I'm about to move house so I can't do anything on it. I hope to get it sorted out and turned in to a project in the next month or so (and I'll work out how to get it working on 4.8/5.0 as well...but thats down the line a bit after the freeze).

If you do want help, contact me though my contact form, as this thread isn't the right place for support of my module ;)

I put this on my 4.7 site, but when going to the admin-settings-rolesignup, I get a "page not found" error. When I log out to try and create a new account, I see the "Please select what type of account you want" but then nothing else. So, users woudn;t even be able to sign up at all. Great module and I hope it works soon!

Here is the updated module - I really should make a project for it soon!

Hmmm... I just downloaded another module that seems to be working fine http://drupal.org/node/72057#comment-159725

I'm not sure what the differences are :)

The main difference that I've noticed is that when using user_role_register, an administrator can add a user into a particular role, whereas as far as I can tell, that feature in rolesignup is broken.

Moving out of the "x.y.z" queue to a real queue.

Since a module of the same name as a project came out of this, I'm putting this into that module's queue.

I guess that makes it fixed then.