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Hello!
I am creating an application which requires users of two types:

• Individual
• Individual representing an organization

As CiviCRM has both these (contact) types, it seemed to be the apt solution.

However, the problem is that I would like to have two separate registration pages (one for individual and another for organization) which shows the corresponding profile on the registration page, and create the respective contacts. (i.e. When registering for an "individual" account an individual contact is created and when creating an organization account, an organization contact is created). I could not find any (simple) way of doing this and was hoping the experts could shed some light.

I hope I have made the situation clear. Thank you in advance.

P.S. In case my environment details aren't stated:

CMS: Drupal 6.20
CRM: CiviCRM 3.3.1

Hello Donald,
Thank you for the quick reply and useful resource. The project you pointed to is quite similar to what I am trying to accomplish however I seem to have failed to clarify. By "registration pages" I was referring to the default Drupal registration page. Thus, these profiles need to appear on the Drupal registration page. A sample case:

For an individual user:

1) Individual visits site
2) He/she clicks "register individual account" and gets redirect to user/register/individual
3) He/she is shown a form for filling details related to individual contact (First name, last name, etc.) along with username, password and email field
4) On submission an "individual" contact is saved

For a organization:

1) Individual (representing an organization) visits site
2) He/she clicks "register as representative" and gets redirected to user/register/organization
3) He/she is shown a form for filling details related to organization (organization name, email, headquarter address, etc.) along with username, password and email field
4) On submission a "Organization" contact is saved but a user is saved in drupal

Thus, when user A representing organization B posts a content, the organization name will be shown. However, if A has an individual account (at the same time) and posts content from his individual account, his real name will be shown.

I hope I've made it a little clearer.

Thank you for your time and the resources!

lobo is, as usual, correct. Using a custom Drupal module you could display only those profiles you want for each different register page, using those URLs you suggested as well. You should then be able to insure that the correct contacts (individual and organization) are then created.

> Perhaps my approach is incorrect?

Yes. The way I would suggest is to add all the fields to the default Drupal registration page and then use hook_form_alter to remove those fields not needed for any particular registration page. That is one idea how to approach this anyhow.

I see what you mean. Offhand, I am not certain--could be you would have to manually create those fields in the Drupal registration page and then use the module code to read them and then update the newly-created contact record as necessary using the CiviCRM API.

No I meant use hook_alter_form to add similar fields to the user reg page (but as Drupal fields not linked to any CiviCRM fields) and then copy the data the user inputted into his contact record.