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Hello, I am making a portal for college students. I want to do the logins based on their school ids for example for Students whose email addresses end with @rit.edu I want to add them to the User group "RIT" automatically, and if their email address ended with @otherschoo.edu it would add them to the group "Other school". Furthermore, I would like to use these school email addresses as their username, and not have them create a new username. If the above is possible, I want to further know if I could then have different blocks displayed for each school? I want to make a static block on the side with weblinks relevent to that users school, because the info from the other schools will be irrelevent. First I would like to know if this is possible, then I will worry about how to create different blocks and the such.

Thanks in advance, I hope I made my request clear.

-Eric

The blocks part the easy part. As far as automatically adding them to a particular group based on their email address, well thats a little harder. You would have to do some custom programming or get someone else to do it. Now you could have them subscribe themselves to a particular group i think, but that would be using a module that isnt completely out yet. Its called pnGroups. You can monitor its development at http://dev.pnconcept.com. It might help you out.

In terms of the programming, it wouldn't be that hard the school's email addresses must be the same, in my case they will most likely be either @rit.edu or @rochester.edu or whatever other schools I add, if you do not have an email ending in one of the listed ones, you can't sign up (likely not a valid student, all students have a school email). I could then just parse whatever comes after the @ sign. I know in the set up that users can be assigned to a group automatically, I just want to further that.

If this proves to be too difficult, I can set it up where they can subscribe to a group after, but I would still like to use their email addresses rather then yet ANOTHER login name.

I will take a look at the link provided, thank you.