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Registration (or email validation): Add user to a group

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I am trying to add a user to a group called "Clinic Members" when they register with my site.

I overrode the register.php and tried this (did not work)

if (!$u->isError()) {
               //$this->redirect('/register', 'register_success', $rcID);
               $group = Group::getByName('Clinic Members');
               $u->enterGroup($group);
               if(!$redirectMethod){
                  $redirectMethod='register_success';   
                  $registerData['msg']=$this->getRegisterSuccessMsg();
               }
               $registerData['uID']=intval($u->uID);      
            }


Since the user registers by email activation, I also was thinking of trying to override login.php instead and add the user to a group inside of here:

public function v($hash = '') {
      $ui = UserInfo::getByValidationHash($hash);
      if (is_object($ui)) {
         $ui->markValidated();
         // add user somewhere here
         $this->set('uEmail', $ui->getUserEmail());
         $this->set('validated', true);
      }
   }


The only thing is, how do I get the user object inside of that method? Unless there is a way to get the user id from the userinfo object (which I don't think there is...)
 
Ekko replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
Ekko
You could save yourself all of that trouble, and just use the free add on for this

http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/registrant-group/...
nicolechung replied on at Permalink Reply
The only thing is I don't want all new users to be signed up for that particular group.

I changed this in the do_register method and it worked too

$process = UserInfo::register($data);
$user = User::getByUserID($process->getUserID());
$group = Group::getByID(5);
$user->enterGroup($group);