Forum OpenACS Q&A: User registration like www.openacs.org

1: User registration like www.openacs.org

Posted by Kiran Halwai on 12/29/02 06:39 AM

I am new to openACS. I want to design a Forum like the one openacs.org has. I have tried adding users/groups by logging in as an admin to my website. But after collecting this information from the user how do I add this user to DB, as it requires administrative access? I could not find the user registration APIs. Please help, it would give me a headstart on openacs. Thank you.

Using OpenACS 4.5 and postgres DB on Linux.

Regards,
Kiran

2: Re: User registration like www.openacs.org (response to 1)

Posted by Tilmann Singer on 12/30/02 07:27 AM

This is unclear to me - what exactly did you try to do?

You can add users to your DB manually as admin on /acs-admin/users, or new users can register themselves by visiting /register/, which they are being redirected to automatically if necessary, e.g. before posting to a forum.

In case you want to do this in your own code, start by an api search for procs that contain 'user': https://openacs.org/api-doc/proc-search?query_string=user&search_type=Search&name_weight=5&param_weight=3&doc_weight=2
. Seems that ad_user_new could do it. This is for openacs 4.6, you might want to search /api-doc/ on your own installation.