Random Usergroup on registration
 

Ever wanted to randomly sort your new registrants into seperate usergroups?

Now you can!

Good for Harry Potter themed forums. ;)


Instructions: Create the usergroups you want to randomly sort between and record the usergroupid's for use when installing the hack. Further instructions in TXT file.

File Modifications: 1 (register.php)

Template Mods: 0

Time to install: >2 minutes


Enjoy!

Update: Version 2.0 released
This version incorporates code by True.Rooster which fixes my half-assed attempts at getting the code right. (It's been a while... lol)

To upgrade, reapply the hack.

Nice:)

Pretty cool.

Would there then be an easy way for the user to change their group post registration? I could see something like this hack being fun for RPG type sites.

Nice indeed

but I don't want to do a random thningy :) I want to simply make new users register into a usergroup of my choosing, not the default usergroupID 2 , can I do that with this? :)

thnx

Do you have a script to automatically assign random usersgroups to existing members too (excluding moderators and admins)? :) So you can run the script once.... everyone would be assigned a certain group, then randomly add people to new groups as they register.

Just only put one group, that'd do it.



No, I don't, as I coded this for a request, not for my own usage.... I think one could be written though, I just will have to find time... They gave me shifts every day this week at work so I'll be hard-pressed for time.

dstruct2k: what is the application of this hack on your site?

Coudl this be changed so that the user has some otions like

1
2
3

and whatever option he chooses when register he gets put into a specific usergroup ?

This doesn't appear to be working. I put it on my site and signed up as a new member, but for some reason they were placed in 'COPPA users awaiting moderation' (group 4)

I had put the four usergroups as 2 (Gryffindor), 9 (Hufflepuff), 10 (Ravenclaw) and 11 (Slytherin). Maybe you need to check your code. I did a straight copy with the numbers changed.