registration

This article provides a step-by-step tutorial for creating a custom, multistep registration form via the Forms API in Drupal 7. For a Drupal 6 guide, I recommend Multistep registration form in Drupal 6.

Drupal 7's updated Form API makes the process of building multistep forms relatively painless. In combination with the excellent Examples for Developers module, it's really just a matter of copy, paste, and tweak.

We're going to be putting a slightly different spin on the standard approach to creating a multistep form.

The Scenario

You're building a new Drupal site that needs to handle two distinct types of users: Consumers and Service Providers. Each user group must have a unique role, profile type, and registration page. Users of each type should be able to visit your site, find the correct registration page, fill out their profile, and be granted an account with the correct role. Sounds easy, right?

Well, I recently found myself in this exact scenario. I was surprised to find that no combination of modules would exactly fit these requirements. This seemed like a great opportunity to build a legitimate, contributed module. Here it is: Profile2 Registration Path.

The purpose of this blog post is to tell a bit of that story, but more importantly, to show you how to do use it!

The Journey

Jump to the Quick Step-by-step (TLDR)

It can be difficult to remember all of the usernames and passwords that you use to log in to various websites across the internet, so why force users to create a new username for your web site? It's easier on everyone to simply combine the username and email address fields. It also cleans up your registration form a bit.

In Drupal, there are two modules that can help you to accomplish this:

• Email Registration
• Logintoboggan

These two modules are mutually exclusive— they are not compatible with each other, so you'll have to pick one. I prefer to use Email Registration, and I'll explain why.