Author Topic: Registration match on external identifier (Read 1112 times)

murrayb · January 26, 2011, 09:00:59 pm

Hi,

I have a situation where I need to change how the registration interface works between Drupal and CiviCRM. As I understand it the match of a Drupal user to a CiviCRM member is made by e-mail address only (when a user registers to Drupal). In my case I have imported users from an external system. Very few users have a correct e-mail address and most have none. So what I want to do is to have the matching performed by external identifier as this is the member's existing membership number which they all know.

I'm happy to write a module to do this but haven't written a Drupal or CiviCRM module before. So any advice and/or code examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks . . . Murray

Donald Lobo · January 27, 2011, 08:13:10 am

will your users be logging into the system? if so, how will u be informing them about how to log in etc?

one easy alternative might be to give them an email address like:

member.MEMBERIDNUM@yoursitename.org

that probably will get around trying to sync civi/drupal on a non-email field and potentially make life a lot easier

lobo

murrayb · January 29, 2011, 02:42:09 am

Yes, I did consider doing that with the e-mail address. However I have a couple of problems with doing it that way:

I want to check against multiple fields (external id, surname, zip code). I think <id>.<surname>.<zip>@site.com might be too complex.
AFAIK We can't force them to then change the email address and we don't want to give them one.

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