Site-specific signup actions
Performing additional, project-specific actions when a user signs up
Why
When a user signs up, Zotonic verifies the validity of some information, such as the e-mail address and the password strength. If these verifications succeed, it stores the user data in the Zotonic database. If you have your own database with project-specific user data, you may want to insert additional information into this database on sign up. To do this, you need to modify the sitename.erl file, where "sitename" is the name of your site. Remember that this file is located in priv/sites/sitename/.
Assumptions
Readers are assumed to be comfortable with Erlang syntax and use of the command shell.
How
Open priv/sites/sitename/sitename.erl with your favorite editor
Add the following code:
Example 1: a gaming website with several point accounts for each user
-export([observe_signup_done/2]).
%% @doc Perform additional actions when a user signs up
observe_signup_done({signup_done, UserId, _IsVerified, _Props, _SignupProps},
Context) ->
% Create the necessary accounts for the user:
create_user_accounts(UserId, [chess, go, checkers]).
% Implementation not shown here
create_user_accounts(_UserId, _) ->
todo.
Save your changes and quit
Recompile zotonic:
$ cd /path/to/zotonic $ make
Troubleshooting
There are no troubleshooting steps available for this guide, but you are encouraged to share yours in the comments below or on the Zotonic Users Group.
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