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This may be of interest to some - and (of course) there may be a better way of doing this.

I've been working on a WordPress-based reverse-synch system...

Whenever a Civi membership is created/edited, the WordPress user table is checked to see if there's a user that's already associated with that Civi contact (via a customfield 'cc_id'). If not, it then looks for a matching email - and if that fails, a new WordPress user is created.

The upshot of this is that I can now (well - maybe another 4hrs work!) use Civi membership to control access to a Members' Area.

Two core hacks were required:

• an escape route from function _civicrm_update_user( $userID ) in civicrm/civicrm.php in order to prevent Civi creating a new contact when the new WP user is created
• a call to my function do_wp_member_update($cc_id) from civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Member/BAO/Membership.php.

If I knew how to make use of Civi's membership-edit and membership-create hooks from WordPress, I wouldn't need that second hack. Is anybody working on this?

Cheers

Bill

Not sure how it works on WP, but that's quite easy to write a hook in general (basically a function with the right name at the right place).

To add an action to a hook in WP I'd do:

add_action('hook_name', 'my_function_name');
I need to get to grips with how WP implements this, so that can I add an action to a Civi hook in a similar way.

I'll check out the extension/plugin stuff too.

Thanks again

Bill