Allow user to choose role immediately after registration

Question

I have 2 roles (driver, owner) with very different permissions on my site. I want to allow Facebook Connect during registration, so I am resigned to a 2-step registration process:

1. Register as a basic user via Facebook Connect or standard Drupal registration.
2. Basic user selects the appropriate role.

I will auto-assign the role "basic" upon registration and present a block to all users of the basic role which asks them to select Driver or Owner as their account type. Upon clicking the appropriate link, their user account will be updated with the new role. I can use Rules to remove the "basic" role whenever an account has been saved with one of the other roles.

How can I assign a role using a link displayed in a block?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I solved this by using the Rules module and 2 basic pages. Not a very scalable solution, but works in this limited application.

1. User registers using Facebook Connect or the core Drupal registration process.
2. The new user with the "basic" role is redirected (via Rules) to a "select your role" page with links to a "Welcome new driver" page and a "Welcome new owner" page.
3. Upon viewing the node, "Welcome new driver/owner", with the role "basic" a rule is triggered which sets the desired new role, removes the "basic" role and triggers role-specific welcome email.

Answer 2

I don't know this will help you or not:

1. Create two pages.

2. 1-page callback will be a registration form. This can be a facebook reg: Link to discussion or Drupal reg. form. Then redirect the registered user to second page.

3. 2-page, simple form which requires user to choose a role. You can get an info here: user_roles()
4. On second form submission, you can update user account information with user_save() an redirect him anywhere you want...

Notice, that I did not mention how will be handled the user role control. Because a user can simply skip the second page. You can store some kind of flag in $_SESSION or even better in database table which verifies that user actually chose a role or not. If not then redirect him back to second page.