CiviRoles Sync

11-19-2008 - THIS MODULE IS NOW INCLUDED WITH CIVICRM 2.1.2+ AND IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED ON DRUPAL.ORG, THE FILES BELOW ARE FOR LEGACY/ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY. The 6.x release has been removed to avoid incorrect warnings in the module update reports.

Sorry for the late update, but there were some exciting developments with this module last month. The CiviCRM Core development team has been working on migrating this module into the main distribution of the CiviCRM module and will be maintaining it there. I have been told via e-mail that we can expect to see the CiviMembers/Drupal Roles sync features as early as CiviCRM v2.1.2, which should be available soon. The modules below will no longer be maintained here and any support questions should be asked on the CiviCRM Forums (http://forum.civicrm.org/) when v2.1.2 goes public. I would like to thank everyone who supported me in developing this module and for Matt2000's contributions. I'm sure these features will be very exciting in future releases of CiviCRM.

For more information please see this CiviCRM developer blog posting: http://civicrm.org/node/464

-- Neil Goodman (aka posco)

Module Description:

CiviMember Roles Sync automatically synchronizes CiviCRM Contacts that have CiviMember Membership Types to a specified Drupal Role. This allows sites that use Drupal and CiviCRM to create membership sites with "member-only" content.

Membership Types and Roles can be synchronized automatically using three different methods. The first method is performed each time an individual Drupal user logs in or out and the second method provides periodic synchronization using the Drupal cron function. The third method synchronizes membership types to roles on every page load for the user viewing the page. There is also a "Manual Synchronization" feature which can be used anytime to fully synchronize Membership Types to Roles.

Which Membership Types and which Roles are used is fully configurable by creating "association rules" in the module's settings page. Multiple association rules can be used. This allows you to have the same Membership Type to be assigned to multiple roles or to have each Membership Type assigned to its own role.

This module only synchronizes one way: CiviMember -> Drupal. This means that users with a specific role will not be given a CiviMember Membership Type. Only CiviCRM Contacts with specific Membership Types will be assigned a Drupal role.

Which version should I download?

Each major version of CiviMember Roles Sync corresponds to a version of CiviCRM. Please follow this guide to determine which version of CiviMember Roles Sync you should download:

6.x-3.0-beta1 - CiviCRM 2.1 alpha
5.x-2.0 - CiviCRM 2.0
5.x-1.2 - CiviCRM 1.9

CiviCRM versions below 1.9 are not supported.