Adding User Profile Image with Register Snippet

[lylesmith]

Hello,

I am having difficulty figuring out how to go about adding a profile picture input field to my user registration form using the Register snippet. I was able to find this discussion about how to update an existing user’s profile picture:

UpdateProfile upload picture

I want users to upload their own avatar icon. How do I do that? I can update [[+photo]] but it does nto save the file when using <input type=“file” I guess I need a custom hook that allows for that? Or is there a hook already that I can use? e.g. using fileupload snippet? can anyone give me a tip?

but I am struggling to figure out how to apply this to a form using the Register snippet. Can anyone give me an example of how I would create a snippet to somehow take the upload input’s value, and then save that value to the file system?

Thanks!

[halftrainedharry]

My guess is, that it should work pretty much the same way with the Register snippet as it does with the UpdateProfile snippet.

Maybe use a “postHook” instead of a “preHook”, so that you only copy the image file, if the user was successfully registered.