User Registration Assign to Specific Group

Question

Joomla 3.9.14

I have a URL example.com/training/register, this displays a default Joomla user registration form.

Within Joomla I have various user groups;

 - Guest
 - Registered
 - - Training
 - - Sport
 - - Finance
 - Administrator

When a user registers on my site at example.com/training/register how can I automatically add them to the Training user group?

In the future I'll also need to do the same thing for other user groups and URLs, e.g;

• Register at URL example.com/sport/register > Add to group Sport
• Register at URL example.com/finance/register > Add to group Finance

Maybe I could use the Joomla User Profile plugin with a custom field that displays a dropdown of available categories (Training / Sport / Finance). Based on this selection the user would be added to the corresponding group?

I'm also open to suggestions for third party extensions.

Answer 1

Briefly, these are your main options:

1. Write a custom user registration component
2. Write a User Plugin that will handle the usergroup of the registered users
3. Use 3rd party Form extensions which integrate with JUsers and create your custom form(s)
   A few form extensions that work well for this use case:
   • RSForm pro with its JUser/Registration plugin,
   • Fabrik

A few more links that can be of help:

• Joomla Docs Plugin/Events/User
• RSForm - Custom user registration forms
• RSForm - dynamic user group

JSE Links:

• Assign user to a specific group based on custom field selected
• Pre select user group based on menu item being viewed