Enrolment

I have the external database enrollment working fine (I have a simple table of two columns..userId and courseId). This works for existing moodle students but if I want to do account creation and enrollment outside of moodle what do I need to do...just add the info to my table with the same column names as in mdl_user? I know I could insert the user details directly into the mdl_user table but I assumed there was another way since you can hook up an external database to moodle...

If I have to do inserts directly into the moodle database for creating students then why would I bother linking to the external database...I could just insert the enrollment info directly into the moodle db too 

Hi,

I am new to Moodle and might be doing something silly, but for the life of me I cannot get the automatic enrollment with an external database right. Let me add here that i am trying to external user registration AND enrollment in one step.

I have therefore set up an external database with username, password, idnumber (which for testing purposes i've just created as a semi random string) and course ID (which corresponds to a string identification that I've put in on the course side in the course idnumber field). The Username and Password link works fine, the user account is created (with the semi-random string in the user idnumber field), but he is not added to the course. If I take off internal enrollments as an option on the enrollment parameters for using an external database, when the user clicks on the course it just comes back with an error - sorry, internal enrollments are not allowed, even though the user has been authenticated, logged in and saved his parameters.

Please assist!

Christine