Adding City to Yii2-User extension

Benn · December 11, 2017, 12:34am

Hello all,

I’d like to add a city field to the user profile in Yii2-User using Google Places Autocomplete API.

I’ve managed to add the field (and hidden fields) to the registration page, I’ve managed to have the hidden fields populated as they should when a city is selected, but I’m just not clear on how to get everything in the database on submission.

Obviously, I need to have the city be created in the DB if it doesn’t exist yet before it’s linked to the profile but I’m not sure how to do that.

My relevant code so far is in the following pastebins :

https://pastebin.com/u/Bennd

If anyone could help, that would be amazing.

Thanks

Benn

alirz23 · December 11, 2017, 9:08am

it depends which yii2-user extension you are using, if you are using dektrium/yii2-user you can register event callbacks

github.com

dektrium/yii2-user/blob/master/docs/using-controller-events.md

# Using controllers events

The controllers packaged with the Yii2-user provide a lot of functionality that is sufficient for general use cases. But,
you might find that you need to extend that functionality and add some logic that suits the specific needs of your
application.

For this purpose, you can either override controller or use events. The controllers are dispatching events in many
places in their code. All events can be found in the constants of needed controller class.

For example, this event listener will redirect user to login page after successful registration instead of showing
message on a blank page:

```php
'user' => [
    'class' => \dektrium\user\Module::className(),
    'controllerMap' => [
        'registration' => [
            'class' => \dektrium\user\controllers\RegistrationController::className(),
            'on ' . \dektrium\user\controllers\RegistrationController::EVENT_AFTER_REGISTER => function ($e) {
                Yii::$app->response->redirect(array('/user/security/login'))->send();

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Benn · December 11, 2017, 9:24am

Thanks ! I am indeed using dektrium/yii2-user. I’m not familiar with these events callbacks, if you have more information, that would be great, otherwise, I’ll look into it

alirz23 · December 11, 2017, 3:09pm

here you go the documentation is pretty comprehensive they have a dedicated page for adding custom fields to profile table

github.com

dektrium/yii2-user/blob/master/docs/adding-profile-fields-to-registration-form.md

# Adding fields from Profile to the registration form

Sometimes you may need to add some fields from Profile to the registration form and this article will help you.

## Override the registration form model

Let's start with overriding the registration form model:

```php
namespace app\models;

use dektrium\user\models\Profile;
use dektrium\user\models\RegistrationForm as BaseRegistrationForm;
use dektrium\user\models\User;

class RegistrationForm extends BaseRegistrationForm
{
    /**
     * Add a new field
     * @var string

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Benn · December 11, 2017, 3:20pm

Thanks, I had used that to add (with success ) a phone number to the profile

I tried using a similar technique for the city, but it’s more complicated due to the fact that I need to create a new object in a different table

I guess I’ll keep looking