Joomla user registration plugin

Question

I am interested in customizing the authentication method for a Joomla website.

There is a comprehensive tutorial on how to make a custom authentication plug-in, however a plug-in of that sort customizes the behavior on each log-in.

The behavior I need to implement should occur only once during registration. Is there any way to implement this?

Answer 1

You'll want to create a user plugin that responds to the onBeforeStoreUser event instead of an authentication plugin. The plugin creation process is much the same for user plugins. The onBeforeStoreUser event receives two arguments: the user object and a boolean flag indicating whether or not the user is a new one.

You can look at plugins/user/example.php to see all of the user plugin event handlers.