[development] How to add user role during registration with custom form

[Lee Rowlands]

Hi
Have a look at autoassignrole module.
It does just this, you can also patch profile_role so the two integrate and
you get custom registration fields per url/role.
Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Steve Edwards
Sent: Saturday, 27 February 2010 7:49 AM
To: Drupal Development
Subject: [development] How to add user role during registration with custom
form

I took over a site that uses a custom registration form that directly calls
user_register_submit directly, and I need to have a user role added to this
user when this form is submitted.  However, I can't add the value to
$form_state['values']['roles'] because the function errors out if there is a
roles array because it is seen as a 'malicious attempt to alter protected
user fields.'  Since that function then calls user_save, it seems that once
the user is saved, I need to 1) load the user I just created, 2) add the
role to the object, and 3) save it again.  However, in order to call
user_load, I need the uid, which isn't returned from user_register_submit.
The only logical thing I can think to do is query the users table with the
user name I just created (entered as part of the form), get the rid, and
then call user_load and do my thing.

Is there a better (and easier) way to do this that I'm missing, or am I on
the right track?

Thanks.

Steve =
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