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Hi all,

As promised I have posted a preliminary version of my Joomla component and module to restrict user signups to only valid members over in the wiki http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Joomla+User+Registration+Restriction

It replaces the standard frontend user login and registration bits with a version that aks for firstname, lastname and email and checks for a matching CiviCRM contact. If one is found it then optionally checks whether the individual belongs to a specified group before allowing the registration to proceed.

Thus you can have all your membership records in CiviCRM and allow only valid members to sign up on your site and login to create a members only site. I recommend using this in conjucntion with Henry Bennett's authentication plugin so that if a member lapses they can no longer login.

This is a first stab at it but seems to be working ok - if anyone has a test joomla setup they could try it on that would be tremendously helpful.

It is a native Joomla 1.5 component so will not work on J1.0 installations, and also there is only an english GB language file - although since this is actually a clone of the com_user language file you could just copy your local version of that renaming it to xy-AB.com_civiuser.ini in your Joomla languages folder.

Please let me know if you try this, and any suggestions for improvements. I have listed some in the wiki.

Once I am a bit more confident that this is robust I'll post notice of it over in the general forum.

RogerCO

Roger,
Finally had a chance to test this out (all I needed was some client pressure!). A few things:

• mod_civilogin/tmpl/default.php -- line 12: value needs to be updated to com_civiuser (module logout currently breaks)
• If there are duplicate emails in CiviCRM (two+ records with the same email), the registration component errors on the uf_match table. This is to be expected, as Civi matches on the email (admins should dedupe on emails regardless as dup emails will create mismatches between Joomla users and CiviCRM contacts). But for the sake of this component, it might be nice to let it degrade more cleanly than currently (sql error msg), as it could be disconcerting to the end user.
• Small item, but in the component parameters, I would make the two "sorry" text fields textarea instead. I personally found need to use more space.

So far, everything else seems to be working as expected. Thanks again -- very helpful!

-Brian

you might want to try this with 2.1beta6 since that is the latest version and has a fair number of joomla fixes (from beta3)

lobo

PapaLion --
probably best if you ask more specific questions re: the CiviUser component. forums are the best way to get support.

RogerCO --
did I send you my edits that incorporated the member status element? my brain is fuzzy...

-Brian

RogerCO,

If you need some dev space on a mysql 5 / php 5 platform I could potentially help here.

Henry