Automatically join users to group at registration

  • Resolved andyredsox

    (@andyredsox)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Great plugin. Really quite useful, thank you.

    In reading the Forum posts it appears you can use the shortcodes [groups_join] and [groups_leave] to set it up so that when someone registers they can self select a group to join (or leave).

    What I need to be able to do is auto-join someone to a group based on registration information such as geography – derived from the state that they live in – where each state is mapped to a group. The state groups are already defined and there is content designated for them, I just want to make the group assignment happen easily behind the scenes based on the address the user provides.

    Is there a recommended approach for adding this kind of group auto-join logic?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/groups/

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  • Plugin Author itthinx

    (@itthinx)

    Hi there,

    Assuming that the states have their groups mapped by name and that the information is provided at registration, you would basically need to check the state (user meta I would suppose) and then use

    if ( $group = Groups_Group::read_by_name( $state ) ) {
    Group_User_Group::create(array( 'user_id' => $user_id, 'group_id' => $group->group_id ) );
}

    to add the user to the group.

    You would have to hook into user_register to get the $state from the user’s meta.

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