User Registration - usertype Author

matttih 17 Feb, 2010

Hello,

as I am not a joomla programmer, I am a little bit lost.
I created a cronoform wich is linked to the Joomla registration plugin.
Everything wents fine.CF is perfect and I just ordered some licneces.

My problem: I like to "update" the usertype of the newly created user to "Author". I think this could be done in the custom php-code after the registraion.

Is there a way to get the ID of the newly created User and upgrade it in the DB?
I think there must be some joomla classes for that?

It would be great if someone could help me with a short PHP example or point me in the right direction.

Matti

GreyHead 17 Feb, 2010

Hi matti,

The user id is available in the User object immediately after the registration. I think you can then use $user->type = ?? and $user->save() to amend it - but that needs testing.

Bob

matttih 18 Feb, 2010

Perfect!

this lines:

<?php
$user->usertype = "Author";
$user->gid=19;
$user->save();
?>

in the "Extra after Registration code" solves my problem and updates the user to "Author"

zandergraphics 16 Apr, 2010

I'm trying to do this same thing except using the cb_registration plugin but it is not working. Does anyone know if the code needs to be different to work with the CB plugin or if it has to be done a different way?

GreyHead 16 Apr, 2010

Hi zandergraphics,

As far as I know CB uses the same Joomla table for Joomla Group settings but CB may have other Groups that need different settings.

Bob

nml375 16 Apr, 2010

Hi zandergraphics & Bob,
From what I can tell of the source for the cb_registration plugin, the "Extra after onsubmit code" is not implemented, only the "Extra before onsubmit code". As such, you'll have to use the normal on-submit code in your form setup, you'll have to retrieve the JUser object of the new user from the $MyPlugins object:

<?
$user =& $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['user'];
$user->set('gid', 19);
$user->save();
?>

/Fredrik

zandergraphics 16 Apr, 2010

Using the code above, I'm getting:

Fatal error: Call to a member function set() on a non-object in /home/myaccount/public_html/2009/components/com_chronocontact/libraries/customcode.php(51) : eval()'d code on line 3

I'm doing some searching on this right now but thought I'd post back in case someone more familiar than myself might know the reason.

Thanks for your help guys. I must say I've been really impressed with Chronoforms and everything it can do. I was using another component before and quite often seemed to just get back a generic "it can't do that" from support. So, thank you for being so helpful.

nml375 16 Apr, 2010

Hi zandergraphics,
Could you try this then:

<?
$MyPlugins =& CFPlugins::getInstance($MyForm->formrow->id);
$user =& $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['user'];
$user->set('gid', 19);
$user->save();
?>

/Fredrik

zandergraphics 16 Apr, 2010

Still the same... this time:

Fatal error: Call to a member function set() on a non-object in /home/myaccount/public_html/2009/components/com_chronocontact/libraries/customcode.php(51) : eval()'d code on line 4

nml375 16 Apr, 2010

That is odd,
Would you mind adding some debug-code?

<?
$MyPlugins =& CFPlugins::getInstance($MyForm->formrow->id);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($MyForm);
print_r($MyPlugins);
echo "</pre>";
?>

That should show the actual contents of the $MyForm and $MyPlugins objects, which should help.

/Fredrik

zandergraphics 16 Apr, 2010

Here's the result, hopefully it will post to the forum in a readable format...

nml375 16 Apr, 2010

Hi,
Yes, that's fully readable. As for the error, it's explained here:

[cf_cb_registration] => Array
        (
            [errors] => This e-mail is already registered. If you forgot your password, click on the Forgot your password link and a new password will be sent to you.
            [user] =>
            [complete] =>
        )

The registration failed, and as such, there is no new JUser-object available. $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['user'] is thus null. I suppose it would be a good idea to add a check if $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['errors'] is empty or not, and post the error message if it's not.

Give this a go, and try using a different email address for registration:

<?
$MyPlugins =& CFPlugins::getInstance($MyForm->formrow->id);
if (!empty($MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['errors'])) {
  echo $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['errors'];
  return;
}

$user =& $MyPlugins->cf_cb_registration['user'];
$user->set('gid', 19);
$user->save();
?>

/Fredrik

zandergraphics 16 Apr, 2010

Awesome. It worked this time. Apparently when I was deleting the test accounts through CB they were being left in jos_users so according to CB the username/emails were not there but when I searched the database, they were in there... but that's a whole different issue... 🙄

Actually, I just went in and looked around more and it appears that while tinkering I turned on the jos_users database connection so it was actually creating two accounts each time and only deleting one... I turned that off and now it is working great.

Thanks for all your help... I've been trying to get all the parts of this registration for to work together and I think I am now very close... 😀

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