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Hello:

    I'm working on the following problem (Drupal 5.6, CiviCRM 2.0.4). When a user signs up as a drupal user
   www.example.com/user/register

    They are displayed the name and address fields and a checkbox to signup for a newsletter. Now since we'll be
using CiviCRM to store the addres fields and the newsletter signup preference for the user, we decided to store it as a CiviCRM profile.

   Hence we created a basic CiviCRM profile which accepts name, address and newsletter signup preference for a new Drupal user.
   This profile group comes up on the drupal user registration page and things work fine when i create the new drupal user.

   However, what i want to do is if the user has selected the checkbox for newsletter subscription, i'd like to add them to a CiviCRM group.
   To achieve this i tried to access the civicrm profile fields in the drupal user hook but it seems civicrm profile fields don't show up in the
   drupal user hook.

   So next i tried the hook_civicrm_post but that is not invoked. Is there any way to solve this problem ? I used drupal profile fields and they
   did show up in the drupal user hook. Any clean way to solve this problem ?

Thanks.

Yashesh

i was able to get the hook invoked finally (don't know what fixed it but i disabled/enabled the module) and it worked fine. however,
the custom field (i checked when objectName = Profile) is as follows

Oct 22 15:53:17  [info] entering function civitest_civicrm_post() in civitest.module
Oct 22 15:53:17  [info] $op = edit
Oct 22 15:53:17  [info] $objectName = Profile
Oct 22 15:53:17  [info] $objectId = 113
Oct 22 15:53:17  [info] $objectRef = Array
(
    [qfKey] => c59149909b4d5fea7b2789e4d6c7c2fb
    [edit] => Array
        (
            [civicrm_dummy_field] => CiviCRM Dummy Field for Drupal
        )

    [first_name] => neha
    [last_name] => bhatia
    [supplemental_address_1-Primary] => 21, Ashirwad
    [supplemental_address_2-Primary] =>
    [city-Primary] => Mumbai
    [postal_code-Primary] => 400056
    [state_province-Primary] => 1000
    [custom_6] => Array
        (
            [1] => 1
        )

)

Now the field is custom_6 which i'm interested in but the custom field id's change on devel, staging and production boxes . is there any way to specifiy the name of the custom field (like in drupal cck fields ?) so instead of custom_6 - custom_subscribe_to_newsletter ?

Thanks.

Yashesh

Another possible approach here is to expose the "Group(s)" field in your profile and set your Newsletter Subscriber group as a Public group of type = Mailing List.