Automatic Login after Successful Registration

Question

Is there any way to automatic login user after a successful registration, it seems I can't find any tuts/solution how to do this.Thanks!!

Any replies are much appreciated....

in my template.php

function drupal_onrevue1_form_user_register_submit($form, &$form_state){

    //$form_state['rebuild'] = TRUE;
    $form_state['redirect'] = "user/login";
    //print_r($form_state);die();
   $edit = array(
          'name' => $form_state['values']['name'], 
          'pass' => $form_state['values']['current_pass'],
          'field_first_name' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_first_name']))),
          'field_last_name' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_last_name']))),
          'field_middle_name' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_middle_name']))),
          'field_year_select' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_year_select']))),
          'field_month_select' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_month_select']))),
          'field_date_select' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_date_select']))),
          'field_gender' => array(LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => $form_state['values']['field_gender_select']))),
          'mail' => $form_state['values']['field_mail'],
          'init' => $form_state['values']['field_mail'], 
          'status' => 1, 
          'access' => REQUEST_TIME,
    );

    $account->is_new = TRUE;
    $hello = user_save($account, $edit);
    //print_r($hello);die();

}

Answer 1

Have a look at the Logintoboggan module. This offers you to login new users immediately.

Answer 2

After saving the users' data..I used to user_authenticate() function for authenticating the username and password. Since the return value of it is the uid of the user, you can now used the user_login_submit() function

$username = $form_state['values']['name'];
$pass = trim($form_state['values']['current_pass']);
$userRecord = user_authenticate($username, $pass);
$form_state['uid'] = $userRecord; 
user_login_submit(array(), $form_state); 

Answer 3

Normally drupal will automatically login after successful registration , may be you have wrong settings under 'user > settings'

Answer 4

Ha.. This one is simple. You just have to assign $GLOBALS['user'] variable to the newly created user object.

$fully_loaded_user_object = user_save($account); //returns user obj on success otherwise FALSE
if ($fully_loaded_user_object) {
  $GLOBALS['user'] = $fully_loaded_user_object;
}

Answer 5

I found this to work in Drupal 7.56 (and I should think earlier and later Drupal 7 versions too).

After a user is created, the hook_user_insert is fired. So the solution is to implement this hook in a custom module as follows:

/*
 * implements hook_user_insert(&$edit, $account, $category)
 */
function mymodule_user_insert(&$edit, $account, $category) {
    $newly_registered_user_id = $account->uid;

    // credit: ML and https://www.drupal.org/project/login_activity/issues/2066899 (second snippet of code)
    global $user;
    $user = user_load($newly_registered_user_id);
    drupal_session_regenerate();
}

Credit to my colleague xiwar for finding the second snippet of code at Programmatically login user in drupal 7 Note that even though this issue was raised as an issue on Login Activity contrib module, this module is not required as the $user variable, user_load and drupal_session_regenerate used in the hook are part of core as indeed the base hook, hook_user_insert is as well. In fact my code base doesn't have Login Activity module.

I did also try calling this code from my custom submit handler for the user registration form but although my debugging proved that the custom submit handler was called on submit, the code for auto-login did not work there. So that's why I implemented my hook for hook_user_insert in my custom module.