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Hi Guys,

I have created a few membership types and have used the membership types in a contribution page.

Also created a Profile which will be used in both User Registration and Editing.

Users should only be able to Register from the contribution page, since they can select the "Membership Type" and pay for that.

Now I'm facing a new problem, some users via "Forgot Password" feature of the Drupal, get access to the "Create New Account" page!!!! of Drupal and since the profile is included in this page, they try to register from here instead of using the designated "Contribution page" which is breaking the membership in turn.

One option is to Disable  the "Create New Account" page but I do not know how, I also am not sure of the implications of this on contribution pages.

Any thought?
P.S:
Don't want to use: "User settings->Public registrations set to "Only site administrators..." in Drupal since I want all users registering from Contribution page to have their Drupal account automatically created.

I was thinking of using a drupal redirect module to redirect http://DOMAIN/user/register to contribution page.

http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

Have not tried that yet. will update you if it worked,

Did you find a solution to this?  I am grappling with exactly the same problem.  I tried exploring Lobo's suggestion (have you noticed how hard it is to find basic info about something on the Drupal site: what are hooks, for example?!) but this is the most promising thing I've found so far http://drupal.org/node/483324 and would need some adaptation.  The learning curve just seems a bit overwhelming, and I can't convince myself this is the right way - do I really need to write a new module, albeit a simple one?  Surely this is a problem loads of people have solved?

Thanks, that's a useful idea.

I also found this suggestion, to add the following to your template.php
if (arg(0)=='user' && arg(1)=="register") drupal_goto("[domain]/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2");
This works for me.

Of course both options redirect the 'create new account' tab rather than removing it as per cid.chad's original question.  Removing it would be cleaner, but for me this is good enough for now.

Thanks, that's a great idea.

Hi!

What I did ....

* To remove the "Create new account" feature in the User Login box I removed in user.module the lines:

if (variable_get('user_register', 1)) {
  $items[] = l(t('Create new account'), 'user/register', array('title' => t('Create a new user account.')));
}

(see http://www.drupalcenter.de/node/10348)

* Then I created a new contribution page and linked to it with an menu entry.
   PUT Captcha/reCaptcha on it to avoid tons of fake registrations!!

And there is still one loophole left ... the orignal regisration page can still be accessed via ..../user/register still causing many fake entries.

With reCaptcha installed go to the Administer - User Management - Captcha and activate it for user_register. No need to go into detailed configuration, if someone hits the user/register page (which I dont want to be active) only an error message is displayed, avoiding fake registrations.