Mutiple Registration forms

Hi

I was just looking at your guidelines on "building a registration form using chrono forms" and was wondering if the following is possible?

I need to create 3 or 4 registration forms with different fields, but each form needs to register users to different authority groups which then allows them access to various levels of downloads. So for example, form A registers users as "registered", form B as "authors", form C as "editors" etc

Possible? If this is something that I would need to post in the "paid services" section, please let me know and I will do.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Paul,

Yes it's possible. You can change the User Group by setting $user->type and $user->gid in the OnSubmit After code. There are a couple of threads here about doing that.

But!! you'd probably be better off using one of the existing membership level extensions to manage user groups of this kind. Mis-using the Joomla Groups might have unexpected side-effects that you'll need to deal with.

Bob

Hi Greyhead

can you recommend an extension that might perform this function.

I did have a look at Joomla extensions this morning but couldn;t find exactly what I was looking for - probably missed it though :-)

thanks alot

Paul

Hi Paul,

Take a look at the JED page here

I have't used any of these fully so can't make a strong recommendation. And in part it will depend what you need. (I suggest that you avoid anything requiring core hacks if you possibly can.)

I've encountered JUGA quite often, heard some good comments about NoixACL, and corePHP do some good work. Of these NoixACL is free of charge and core hacks so I'd probably start there.

Bob