Login PostHooks

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pyrographics Reply #1, 12 years, 2 months ago

I am attempting to use pre and post hooks with Login to add a user to a group once they successfully login. I cannot get the hooks to fire. I boiled it down to a simple snippet that just sends me an email and returns true and it won't work. The documentation says the Login snippet can use pre- and post-hooks but it doesn't appear to do so. Anyone else tried something similar? I'm using Revo 2.3.

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BobRay Reply #2, 12 years, 2 months ago

I think that should work, but it's probably easier to just do it in a plugin attached to the OnWebLogin event:

$group = 'SomeUserGroup';
$role = 'Editor';

if (!$user->isMember($group)) {
    $user->joinGroup($group, $role);
}

Paste the code into a plugin, Check OnWebLogin on the System Events tab, save.

The 'Role' part is optional. IOW, if you don't care about the role, you can use:

    $user->joinGroup($group);

If you are using the Register snippet as well, once all users have logged in at least once, you could switch the event to OnUserActivate, which will fire when a new user confirms registration.

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pyrographics Reply #3, 12 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Bob but unfortunately it won't help in this situation. We don't want everyone who logs in to join the group, just those who use this particular form. I submitted a Github issue related to hooks not functioning on the Login snippet (it does on the Register snippet).

As a last resort I may create a landing page that will add them to the group and redirect them.

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BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 2 months ago

You could have the form page set a $_SESSION variable, then check for and (if it exists) clear that variable in the plugin:

if (! isset($_SESSION['new_user'])) {
    return '';
} else {
    unset($_SESSION['new_user']);
}

$group = 'SomeUserGroup';
$role = 'Editor';
 
if (!$user->isMember($group)) {
    $user->joinGroup($group, $role);
}

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pyrographics Reply #5, 12 years, 2 months ago

Thanks! Using a session combined with a plugin would do the trick. I need to use plugins more often.

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