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Simplify your Joomla user registration form
Presented at Sydney Joomla User Group 8th November 2016By Tim Plummer
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Standard Joomla Registration Form
Need to enter password and email twice
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What I wanted
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First challenge
How to make it so you only need to enter email and password once
Found two solutions• Via a plugin• Using a template override
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Solution 1 - plugin
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Solution 1 - plugin
That’s one way to do it
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Solution 2 – template override
/components/com_users/views/registration/tmpl/default.php
Copy to
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/registration/default.php
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Solution 2 – template override
Add in some javascript
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The result so far
Now we only have one password and email field
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Now to get rid of username
Using template override option
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Getting closer
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Now to split name into firstname and lastname
Using User Enhancement Manager (UE Man)
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We have all the fields now
But it doesn’t look pretty yet
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Time to rewrite the template override
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Fields are in right order now
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Now apply some CSS styling
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Questions?
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Tim Plummerwww.tamlynsoftware.com
@bfsurvey