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Hi all:  I've been struggling with this problem for more than a week, so I guess it's time to ask the experts... 

My Drupal registration form has the Drupal "Username" and "Email address" fields on it, and the CiviCRM "First Name" and "Last Name" fields.  I did this by creating a custom "user-register.tpl.php" form, and it all works fine - when "Create an account" is clicked a Drupal user is created, a CiviCRM contact is created with the first name & last name from the form, etc.

However, I also want to put some checkboxes on that form, and when the user registers I want to check the values of those checkboxes and put the CiviCRM contact into some pre-defined groups.  I am trying to do this via the Drupal hook_user($op, &$form, &$account, $category = NULL). 

The problem is that when $op = 'insert', none of my custom fields (including, incidentally, the CiviCRM "first_name" and "last_name" fields) are in $form. The only fields in $form are the Drupal name and email fields.


What am I missing here? 

NOTE:  I've also tried using hook_form_alter to modify the registration form - in this case, I DO get my custom fields in $form in hook_user, BUT the CiriCRM contact record is created without the "first_name" and "last_name" fields from the registration form.  sigh.  I could really use some clarification/assistance.



Thanks

- bill

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping to use a more custom approach because of the control it gives me, but I used your approach instead because it actually works.  I ended up adding the "Group(s)" field to my CiviCRM profile, and then marking the groups I wanted to use as "Public".  This all works very nicely - now I need to do some theme customization to make it look the way I need it to...

Thanks again.