Agaric Wants Registration flow: Let people register or log in while posting content

Proposal submitted to DrupalCon Chicago Core Conversations track (more or less).

See also: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=registration%20flow

Getting Registration Flow

This still isn't done really well, and Agaric hopes to put together a code sprint (and then some?) to make this happen.

Need more reasons? Here's a few hundred million: Fascinating article on how one ecommerce site removed user registration and saw a 300M increase in revenue http://bit.ly/9RuHHV (via Dries).

UPDATE: Someone's gone and done it: Inline Registration (inline_registration)

See also http://drupal.org/project/inline_ajax_login

And better, inline registration put together with Rules.

Registration flow, workflow registration, viral registration- call it what you like, just let people register or log in at the same time as they post their first content on a site!

Notes and other approaches

The Sign-Up Problem (SUP) module

A different (better? complementary!) approach: match anonymous posts with a user when that person later registers. http://drupal.org/project/sup

Lazy registration (lazyreg) module

Closest thing out there, finally found, is a 4.7 module called Lazy Registration: http://drupal.org/project/lazyreg

Ideally register-or-login-while-posting should be combined with ajaxified log in, register, and password reminder forms -- that can pass info back and forth to one another without leaving the page with the content. The password reminder (and non-instant logins) would result in content being quarantined until the e-mail address / password reset is confirmed.

So Lazy Registration looks like the best base.

Tangentially Related Notes

• http://linuxers.org/howto/drupal-7-convert-user-login-block-ajax

• Modal pop-up for user login using the overlay module

• Redirect to Page User Was On When Registration Started

related:
(just slightly, actually asking for already login toboggan functionality)
http://drupal.org/comment/reply/13899#comment-form

Someone who seems to be more talk than walk on this thread claims this exists, but maybe it is easy, if no content is being posted

redirect to last page visited after registration
http://drupal.org/node/99633

CMT, workflow registration, funding pool
http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-march-2007#comment-1588

We're not alone! People write to us and say they want to start using our sites before the registration wall hits:
http://agaricdesign.com/not-just-agaric-wants-registration-flow

Three lines of tentative code:

<?php
registration_flow_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
  // gets called for every form Drupal builds
  if($user->uid == 0 && $form_id != 'user_login_block' && $form_id != 'user_login') {
  /* TODO: replace above with node and comment submission form IDs */
    // add the entire logintoboggan registration form...
  }
}
?>