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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I am trying to do a quick fix on a script so am doing a modification around the userType value. Basically, I have 2 registration screens. Both registration processes need to assign the user to a different User Management Group, in my case Business and User. As the registration screens both have a different 'Itemid' I was thinking one easy way to do it was to get Joomla to look for a certain 'Itemid.' If that condition was met it would assign them as a 'Business', otherwise it would use the default set in Joomla, which in my case is 'User.' Hence, I have come up with this code:
$Itemid = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['Itemid']);
if ($Itemid == '13')
{$userType = 'Business';}
else
{$userType = $userParams->get('new_usertype');}
This code works in practice, i.e. if I create a test module, but when I have tried including it in the CMSUser.php (under // get the default usertype) file it always assigns the User as the default, which is 'User.' It seems to be ignoring the $_GET command. Does anyone know a way around this? Or a better method?

Hi,
I have been trying for the last few days to get this thing working with no luck so far, though I do think I am getting closer to sorting it. What I have ended up doing in the CMSUser.php file is something like this:

$Itemid = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['Itemid']);

if ($Itemid == '13')
{
echo "Business";

class CRM_Core_BAO_CMSUser
{
static function createJoomlaUser( &$params, $mail )
{
$userType = 'Business';
}
}
}
else
{
echo "User";

class CRM_Core_BAO_CMSUser
{
static function createJoomlaUser( &$params, $mail )
{
$userType = 'User';
}
}
}
Okay, so I've just included the sections I have changed here. Everyway I tried to run the function it was always defaulting to the User Access Level I had specified in Joomla admin. So I thought I would duplicate the class function and use an IF/ELSE clause to see what would happen. With the code above it echoes Business and User on the correct pages. However, it always defaults to whatever is entered in the second of the classes when the page is completed. No matter what this value is the registration will default to it. Why is this? Is it something to do with static functions? Is it not possible to use a class twice in a statement. I am still learning how this whole area works so please let me know what I am doing wrong and if you have any advice on how I can fix it.

Thanks
Russ

Roger,
You are right that it is that CMSUser.php which I am editing, however it is possible to create extra User Account Groups, so in addition to Author, Editor, etc., I have created 2 new user groups, Business and User (these are selectable as New User Registration Types). Basically, as stated in my first post, I have 2 Registration forms and I need these forms to automatically assign 2 different levels of user. I have tried using exactly the same code as you have suggested using combinations of Business/User, Author/Editor and many more but in this case it always ignores the IF clause and just runs the ELSE statement. I have tried echo'ing $Itemid in this code but nothing shows. I am assuming for some reason that it is not possible to use a GET clause in this function and that is why it is not working.

This is why I was trying to find a different way of doing this, as in the coding I listed and I know for certain that the IF statement is working correctly, as the code which I have chosen to echo definately does echo at the top of each page. However, as I explained, no matter what statement is echo'd at the top of the page (whether it says User or Business) for some reason the code which is used is always the bottom code. It will always default to whatever is written here, and by this mean I mean what I have hard-coded. In the example I listed the value that is set as the default in Joomla is ignored and its the hard-coded statement in the ELSE statement which is always run. This behaviour seems really odd to me. Why when the IF/ELSE clause seems to work correctly for printing the echo'd statements would it always just use the $userType that's listed in the ELSE statement?

It seems like someone really doesn't want me to hard-code this! All of my ideas seem to fall at the first hurdle!

The new user groups have definately been added correctly, as per instructions on the Joomla site. The thing is it's not that it's switching to the default value in Joomla, it's that it's always using the value that is listed in the ELSE statement. The $gid value is always being entered correctly in the tables, as are the usernames. For instance, with the code I posted earlier, the Usertype will always be added as 'User' no matter what the $Itemid is. But if I changed the value in the ELSE statement to 'Business' then it will add the user as a 'Business' user without any problems, it's just that it always uses the value in the ELSE statement and ignores the value in the IF statement, despite echo'ing the correct value. It's so confusing.

I will try and get some more help on a Joomla forum. I have asked before but they were slightly confused as nobody had encountered the CMSUser.php file before.

Also, I have tried the same with Author and Editor but get the same results.

I thought that might be a possibility and I tried using $_SESSION variables to see if this would work but again had no luck. Thanks for having a look into this. It will be amazing to get this thing sorted!

Thanks,
Russ

u can do this via hooks

store the itemID in the buildForm hook and retrieve it in the postProcess hook

this is for all publically exposed "form" pages, right? i'll think a bit on how to make it generic and integrate it with the core code

lobo

check the instructions on the issue here:

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4528

also call the function: joomla_civicrm_buildForm( $formName, &$form ) etc

and store it in a file called civicrmHooks.php

lobo