I'm currently thinking I can accomplish most, if not all, of this by

hacking/patching the LoginToboggan module. I would need to modify it

to use an empty string for the password, customize the login form, and

suppress the confirmation email. I would use the it's Immediate Login

feature to create the users and put them into a "non-authenticated

role" I'd create called "registrant". My intention would be to leave

them there permanently. I'd also need to implement the ability to

forward the new user to the requested page.


i've been getting a lot of special requests for functionality additions to the logintoboggan module.  i'm actually not all that thrilled about throwing 50 new features in there--i think it makes the code harder to maintain.


I'm looking for an any thoughts on this approach, and any pointers if

it has been done already. If there are any gotchas I'll likely run

into, or if--for some reason that isn't yet apparent to me--this is

just a Bad Idea, I'd like to know that as well.


Also, if there is any broader interest in this type of functionality

let me know. I'm happy to work as closely with the LoginToboggan

maintainers as they would like, and would appreciate any help or

guidance they can offer.



i think the best options in cases like this are:

1. a seperate module that provides the functionality you need

2. installing an adequate hook system in logintoboggan so that it may be used as a base to write contrib modules for it, which would add features such as this.  this provides a modularity which ensures that we won't be breaking the module all the time w/ new features, and people will only have to enable the contrib mods that they want.

i'd be willing to take a look at approach #2 if you'd like to take a crack at that...

chad