Can someone help me with this?

I want, new users to choose a K2 User Group when they make registration (from frontend).

Hi. You cannot do this using K2 out of the box. You need to write a K2 plugin. Of course this assumes that you are familiar with programming.

I can only modify somethings, but i cant create plugin from scrap :blush:

Hi Lefteris,

I think this is a very needed feature for K2 and I for one would purchase such a plugin, any chance that you could develop one for us.

What's the use case for this? I mean that K2 has an option on administration group to define the default K2 user group for new users. This should be enough, you do not want your users to select the group they will be registered. Remember that different groups may have different permissions on front-end editing etc.

Form my case, i need this for permissions to different categories. When user choose a group, he will can post articles in certain category ONLY.

The site will be big and there is no option to do this manual.

This is very special situation. Ther code you need to modify is located in two files:

1. The register.php layout where you need to place the groups the user needs to select
2. The K2 user plugin which is the one that saves the user to the predefined user group.

Hi Lefteris,

I think mine is a similar scenario to Rambo, I was thinking of trying to use K2 as a Directory using different categories for different Directory types but maybe JReviews or Mossets tree is a easier option. But it's a shame K2 can't be used for this. Would really like to see a Tutorial showing the code needed to add to register.php layout & in the user plugin.

thx in advance Pete

Hi,
this plugin is very important in k2
i need it because im creating a community site for education
When a user is going to register he will choose is category such as, student, teacher, Marketing, Hostel Posting, or general user
it will help user to have select there category and submit posting to only there relevant category
if admin do this in the absence of plugin. then admin has to ask every user, for there category which is difficult for large site
Thanks

Same concepts can be apply on different scenario
such as car market, Blogging,

Yes i agree. i have Extendreg that gives this ability. However, doesn't work with K2.
This is a key feature that a lot of people would utilize.

Hello everybody. I am trying to work a site out with K2, this is my first post and i'd have the same "problem".

I am trying to build a social site about giving space to various type of artist, in order to have their space and i'd like to have them divided in categories (singer, pianist, dancer, etc.). Furthermore, i'd like them to be searchable/filtered through these categories, as for example the K2 tool module where you can have a category select box in order to filter the articles through the categories.

Now in order to achieve that, i was wondering if it's possible to give the possibility to the users, during registration to be able to select their category in order not to have to do it manually. At least, i'd like to know if there is a way to do this with K2.

Thank you very much in advance, even because i'm using K2 with allvideos and image gallery pro, it works fine and it is intuitive for new users too.

Hi Antonios,

The only way I could achieve this functionality was by using Community Builder to handle both the Registration & Profile but although the CB is free you need to purchase either their Conditionals plugin or alternately get the third party Community Builder Profile Pro which is able to create different profile types & Registration forms.

The only drawback is that although you can select different user types during registration, & K2 adds them to your list of users, it doesn't automatically add them to your K2 User Groups. So they cannot add items until you add them manually. Which in my case is ok, because I need to approve the users anyway.

While I am at it I thought I would ask for some feedback from the Admins here, this link mentions the same problem about syncing CB & K2 but it's over 2 yrs old, I am hoping I am missing something.

One last thing in the CB Forum has suggested work around for this but my PHP skills are limited & I am getting the dreaded white screen of death.


It says around line 957 begins the function "function saveRegistration( $option )", at the end of this function, before the "}" sign insert this code (it must be a part of the function) ...
Could someone point out where exactly is the end of this function.

echo "\n<div>" . implode( "</div>\n<div>", $messagesToUser ) . "</div>\n";
}