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Drupal: assign roles in user_save

I can't find a solution or right example for something that should be quite simple: assign a role to an user when creating it, this is what I'm trying:

$edit = array(
        'name' => $_POST['name'],
        'pass' => $password,
        'mail' => $_POST['email'],
        'status' => 0,
        'language' => 'es',
        'init' => $_POST['email'],
        array(2 =>'authenticated', 4=>'my custom role') //as id and named in role db table
      );

user_save(NULL, $edit);

The user is not being created, how can I do this?

Thank you

Solution

  • You haven't named the roles member as such. Try his modified version:

    $edit = array(
  'name' => $_POST['name'],
  'pass' => $password,
  'mail' => $_POST['email'],
  'status' => 0,
  'language' => 'es',
  'init' => $_POST['email'],
  'roles' => array(
    2 => 'authenticated',
    4 => 'my custom role',
  ),
);

user_save(NULL, $edit);