Customizing Drupal user account form

Question

Hello,

In my Drupal Site, i will be having two categories of users,say Category A and Category B. When a person wants to create an account on the site, i want to ask them which category they belong to and based on that show the fields on the User Account Form. The fields shown depend on the category selected. The Drupal user account form has two fields by default i.e. username and email and i can add more by using the Profile module, but how to show different set of fields on the user account form depending on the users selection ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

Answer 1

I've done this in the past with hook_form_alter and checking $_GET['type']. If $_GET['type'] is empty, I did something like this:

$form = array(
  '#value' => '<div><a href="/user/register?type=A">Register as A</a> or <a href="/user/register?type=B">Register as B</a></div>',
);

If $_GET['type'] is 'A' or 'B', I removed the irrelevant form elements for that type. Then in the #submit handler, I put the user in the appropriate role.

Answer 2

Check this module: http://drupal.org/project/profile_setup

Answer 3

Also check out:

http://drupal.org/project/profile_role

http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole