How to add a content-profile field in user registration

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I tried to find an answer to this question in vain. So here we go.

In content profile, is there any way to show a field in the node (profile) as a required field in user registration page? Someone in a forum said it is possible with content profile but I couldn't find any good material to show how to do it.

Thanks

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Readme.txt would do it

statcomp's picture

Found the answer from readme.txt from the module's directory. It would be nice to display the file in a web page but I am just glad to find the solution. Thanks anyway.

the readme helpfile

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$Id: README.txt,v 1.1.2.8 2009/06/11 15:07:15 fago Exp $


Content Profile Module

by Wolfgang Ziegler, nuppla@zites.net

With this module you can build user profiles with drupal's content types.

Installation

  • Copy the module's directory to your modules directory and activate the module.

Usage:

  • There will be a new content type "profile". Customize its settings at
    admin/content/types.
  • At the bottom of each content type edit form, there is a checkbox, which allows
    you to mark a content type as profile.
  • When you edit a profile content type there will be a further tab "Content profile",
    which provides content profile specific settings.

Content profiles per role:

You may, but you need not, mark multiple content types as profile. By customizing
the permissions of a content type, this allows you to create different profiles for
different roles.

Hints:

  • When using content profiles the "title" field is sometimes annoying. You can rename
    it at the content types settings or hide it in the form and auto generate a title by
    using the auto nodetitle module http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle.

  • If you want to link to a content profile of a user, you can always link to the path
    "user/UID/profile/TYPE" where UID is the users id and TYPE the machine readable content
    type name, an example path would be "user/1/profile/profile".
    This path is working regardless the user has already profile content created or not.

  • If you want to theme your content profile, you can do it like with any other content.
    Read http://drupal.org/node/266817.

  • If you want a content profile to be private while your site content should be available
    to the public, you need a module that allows configuring more fine grained access control
    permissions, e.g. the module Content Access (http://drupal.org/project/content_access)
    allows you to that.

  • There is also rules integration which is useful for customizing the behaviour of the
    module. See below for more.

Theming: Easily use profile information in your templates!

Content Profile adds a new variable $content_profile to most templates related to users.
So this variable allows easy access to the data contained in the users' profiles.
Furthermore it does its job fast by lazy-loading and caching the needed content profile
nodes.

The $content_profile variable is available in the page, node, comment, user_name,
user_profile, user_signature, search_result and some other templates.

$content_profile lets you access all variables of a profile, which are you used to
have in a common node template. See http://drupal.org/node/11816.

So in any of these templates you may use the $content_profile like this:

<?php
// Just output the title of the content profile of type 'profile'
// If there is no such profile, it will output nothing.
echo $content_profile->get_variable('profile', 'title');

// Get all variables of the content profile of type 'profile'
$variables = $content_profile->get_variables('profile');

// Print out a list of all available variables
// If the user has no profile created yet, $variables will be FALSE.
print_r($variables);

if (
$variables) {
  
// Print the title and the content.
  
echo $variables['title'];
   echo
$variables['content'];
}
else {
  
// No profile created yet.
}

// $content_profile also allows you to easily display the usual content profile's view
// supporting the same parameters as node_view().
echo $content_profile->get_view('profile');
?>

Check the source of content_profile.theme_vars.inc to see what methods $content_profile
supports else.

Adding $content_profile to further templates

If you miss $content_profile in some templates containing user information (id), just
fill a issue in content profile's queue so we can add it to the module.
Furthermore you may let content_profile its variable to your custom templates by specifying
the setting 'content_profile_extra_templates' in your site's settings.php.

E.g. you may add:
$conf['content_profile_extra_templates'] = array('my_template');

Where 'my_template' has to be the key of your template's entry in the theme_registry (hook_theme()).

Rules integration

There is some integration to the rules module (http://drupal.org/project/rules), which offers
a condition to check whether a user has already created a profile of a certain type. Then it
offers an action for loading the content profile of a user, which makes it available to token
replacements as well as to all other existing rules actions which deal with content.

So this integration allows one to build some profile related rules with the rules module. As
example the module ships with one deactivated default rule:

"Redirect to profile creation page, if users have no profile."

If you activate it at the rules "Triggered rules" page, it's going to be evaluated when a user
logs in. Of course you can also alter the default rule and customize it so that it fits your needs,
e.g. you could remove the redirect action so that only a message is displayed.


Content Profile User Registration Integration

There is a small extension module shipping with the main module, which allows one to enable
registration integration per content profile.

This module builds upon the main content profile module. It allows to integrate
the form of one or more content profile into the user registration page.

Installation

  • Activiate the module.

Usage:

  • When you edit a profile content type there will be a further tab "Content profile",
    which provides content profile specific settings. There is now a new field group
    called "User Registration" which allows you to enable this feature for a content profile.

  • You need not grant anonymous users access to create the content profile. If you would do so,
    anonymous users would be able to create anonymous profiles even without registering.

  • If you use the "Content permissions" module, which comes with CCK, make sure you grant access
    to fields that should appear for anonymous users.

  • The weight of the profile (configurable at the content profile settings) controls the position
    of the form elements on the registration page.

  • You may also hide some form elements at the settings. Basically it allows you to hide non-required
    CCK fields as well as the title. If the title is hidden, it is set to the user's name.

  • For more control over the title use the "Automatic Nodetitles" module, which can be found
    at http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle. It integrates fine with this module.

  • Hiding required CCK fields is not supported, as the created content node would have empty
    required fields afterwards, which in affect would make it impossible even for admins to edit
    the content node.

  • So the "Hide other form elements" option allows you to hide all form elements not listed there,
    but required CCK fields always stay.

    However, you can still hide required CCK fields by restricting anonymous access to them by using the
    "Content permissions" module of CCK. But be aware of this issue - maybe also restrict access for
    other roles accordingly.

  • If you want to hide the "body" field, just remove it from the content type in general at the content
    type's settings page. Then instead of this, just create a CCK textfield, which can be hidden.

  • You can enable the registration integration for multiple profiles - however be aware that
    shared form elements like the title only appear once and all created profile nodes get the same
    values assigned.

  • For multiple registration paths for different roles, the AutoAssignRole module might help you:
    http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole. It comes with Content Profile Registration Integration,
    so that you can select the profiles which should appear on each AutoAssignRole path (configurable
    at the content profile settings). You'll need a version of AutoAssignRole released later than
    June 4, 2009.

  • If you want to prepopulate some other form elements, maybe hidden CCK fields you can use the rules
    module for that. See http://drupal.org/project/rules.
    Just configure a rule, that reacts on the creation of the content profile (event) and populates
    your fields value (action).

  • Putting file uploads on the registration form is not supported and probably won't work right.

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