New user registration fields

Question

I have a site with about 30 members, but I just added a new mandatory field on the registration. I want the old members to be forced to fill this in as well. What would be the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Choose one:

1. Use the rules module to test whether the user has authenticated and the field value of the current user is empty. Redirect to user/[uid]/edit if this is the case.

2. Do the same test in a module during your implementation of hook_init(). Call

   drupal_goto('user/[uid]/edit')
   

   to redirect to the user edit page.

3. Do the same test in a module during your implementation of hook_init(). Call

   menu_set_active_item('user/[uid]/edit');
   

   to show the user edit page.

Replace [uid] by the user id of the currently logged in user.

In cases 1 and 2, you also have to make sure that you do not redirect from 'user/[uid]/edit' back to 'user/[uid]/edit'. This would create an infinite loop of redirections, because the POST data gets lost when redirecting.

Documentation:

• drupal_goto()
• menu_set_active_item()