Roles at registration (classipress)

Question

I have a classipress site and want to have the user choose upon registering with the site if they are a teacher, or student. These will be different roles. I have been trying to get roles at registration plugin to work because it is basically what I need, but since classipress has a custom reg page it does not seem to work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

In your functions.php file do this:

add_action('register_form','register_role_field');
add_action('register_post','check_fields',10,3);
add_action('user_register', 'register_role_fieldforuser');    
// This will register new field in registration form
function register_role_field(){ ?>
    <label>Choose your role:<br/>
    <!--- Let's check if there role already set. If $_GET['role'] = 0 -then this is teacher if 1 = student ---> 
    <?php if ( isset( $_GET['role'] ) ) { ?>
        <select id="role" class="checkboxas" name="role">
        <option value="0" <?php if( $_GET['role'] == '0' ) echo 'selected="selected"';?>>Teacher</option>
        <option value="1" <?php if( $_GET['role'] == '1' ) echo 'selected="selected"';?>>Student</option>
  <?php } else { ?>
        <!--- Incase we don't get role ---->
        <select id="role" class="checkboxas" name="role">
        <option value="0">Teacher</option>
        <option value="1" selected="selected">Student</option>

   <?php } ?>
    </select>
    </label>

<?php }

// Here we will check fields in this case only one
function check_fields( $login, $email, $errors ) {
    if( !is_numeric( $_POST['role'] ) )  
       $errors->add( 'bad_role', "ERROR: You have to select role" );
}

 function register_role_fieldforuser( $user_id, $password="", $meta=array() )  {
    if( is_numeric( $_POST['role'] ) ) {
        $userdata = array();  
        $userdata['ID'] = $user_id;
        $userdata['first_name'] = $_POST['first'];
        $userdata['last_name'] = $_POST['last'];
        if( $_POST['role'] == 0 ) 
            $userdata['role'] = 'teacher';
       else $userdata['role'] = 'student'; 
        wp_update_user($userdata); 
   }
}

You can make 2 links in your website: 1 for teachers: http://yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php?action=register&role=0 and another for students http://yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php?action=register&role=1

So registration form automaticaly will select user role based on role set in uer.