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Auto assign new member to group upon registration


  • maelga
    Participant

    @maelga

    Hi,

    I have 2 types of members that I want to assign automatically to their respective group upon registration.
    I have been trying this way, but it doesn’t work:

    function set_default_group( $user_id ) {
    	$accounttype = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'I am a', true );
    	if ( $accounttype == 'Student' )
    	   groups_join_group( 'Students', $user_id );
    	elseif ( $accounttype == 'Teacher' )
    	   groups_join_group( 'Teachers', $user_id );
    }
    add_action( 'user_register', 'set_default_group', 10, 1 );

    Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

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  • danbp
    Moderator

    @danbp

    If you feel comfortable with php, here’s a gist from @imath to autojoin users to groups.
    Modify it to add the member_type

    A little different, BuddyPress Registration Groups


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    The first argument is an integer, not a string.
    groups_join_group( $group_id, $user_id = 0 )

    Since you are only handling 2 specific groups, you could hardcode the $group_id.
    groups_join_group( 3, $user_id );

    Or you could get the id like this:
    $group_id = groups_get_id( 'Teachers' );


    maelga
    Participant

    @maelga

    This is super quick support.
    Thank you guys


    maelga
    Participant

    @maelga

    I have tested the groups_join_group function and it works now. Thanks @shanebp

    However, the IF loop does not.

    function set_default_group( $user_id ) {
    	$accounttype  = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'I am a', true );
    	if ($accounttype  == 'Student'){
    		groups_join_group( 1, $user_id );
    	}
    	elseif ($accounttype  == 'Teacher'){
    		groups_join_group( 2, $user_id );
    	}
    }
    add_action( 'user_register', 'set_default_group', 10, 1 ); 
    

    I have also tried @imath’s gist… It works well as-is for all new registered members to auto join selected groups.
    But I need new members to join only specific groups based on the ‘I am a’ field (Student/Teacher).
    So unfortunately the gist doesn’t help if I can’t even get my IF loop to work 🙁

    It seems to be an issue with get_user_meta.
    I have tried $accounttype = xprofile_get_field_data( 'I am a', $user_id ); instead of $accounttype = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'I am a', true ); but none of them work.

    My field ‘I am a’ is part of the Primary Field Group (also shown on the registration form) and has only ‘Student’ and ‘Teacher’ as options.

    Any idea what goes wrong?


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    If $accounttype is a required field in your Base group, it will not be in usermeta.

    Untested, but try:

    function set_default_group( $user_id ) {
    
            if ( empty( $user_id ) ) 
    		return;
    
    	$accounttype  = xprofile_get_field_data( 'I am a', $user_id );
    
    	if ($accounttype  == 'Student')
    		groups_join_group( 1, $user_id );
    	else
    		groups_join_group( 2, $user_id );
    
    }
    add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'set_default_group', 11, 1 ); 

    maelga
    Participant

    @maelga

    Thanks @shanebp.
    bp_core_activated_user does a better job than user_register
    It works with some additional {} as follows:

    function set_default_group( $user_id ) {
    
            if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
    		return;
            }
    	$accounttype  = xprofile_get_field_data( 'I am a', $user_id );
    
    	if ($accounttype  == 'Student') {
    		groups_join_group( 1, $user_id );
    	}	
    	elseif ($accounttype  == 'Teacher') {
    		groups_join_group( 2, $user_id );
    	}
    }
    add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'set_default_group', 11, 1 ); 
    

    May I ask what’s the purpose of

         if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
    		return;
    		}
    

    ?


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    It avoids failure and error or warning messages if $user_id is missing.

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