Lost: Using chronoforms to do Joomla Registration

ok... I hate to admit it - but I'm lost...

Can someone point me to a tutorial / forum post that clearly explains how to create a chronoform that replaces the login form and registration form in Joomla.

Our scenario - in case you're wondering why... - we don't want to store or even ask for a person's name. we'll be inserting 'user' for the name field everywhere and we want complete control over layout.

I know how to create forms... have done a ton... just can't figure out v 3.0's connection to the Joomla registration....

It needs to email the user and admin, also need to check to see if an email address is already taken... (the normal stuff...)

I'm on a deadline for this of course... so any help would be very much appreciated... I think i just a have a mental blockage here LOL.

thanks!

Hi rodsdesign,

There are several bits to this.

Use the CF Joomla Registration plugin for the registration code. It basically replicates the Joomla Registration code but you'll need to hack it a bit for your requirements.

Create a little CF form for Login (replicate the Joomla code and hack it) and put it into a module.

Suppress the Joomla standard registration and login links and - I think you have to turn off some modules and hack a little code in another.

Bob

hey Bob,

sorry - not trying to be difficult... but how do you use the "CF Joomla Registration plugin for the registration code"?

I selected the form, clicked Joomla registration and entered the fields that I'm using:
Name Field:
Tooltip UserName Field: username
Tooltip Email Field: email
Tooltip Password Field: pass1
Tooltip Verify Password Field: pass2
Tooltip Email user ?: Yes
Tooltip Email admins ?: Yes
Tooltip Run Before/After the Email ?: before email

if that is correct... then I'm not sure why its not working - the form is not inserting anything into the user table...

thoughts?

Hi Rod,

Check the attached tutorial made by Philip Roy, I didn't have the time to convert it to PDF yet!

Cheers

Max

Thanks Max!

download the pdf here - http://www.navigatetomorrow.com/pdfs/Chronoforms_how_to_build_registration_page.pdf

Rod

Thank you, did it hep ?

Hey Max,

ok - got it to make the registration... the tutorial was a huge help!

I finally got the registration confirmation email - but the password was not included in the email.

I saw another thread on this but couldn't see the fix... is there one?

thanks again!!

Hi rod,

the fix is coming in the next release, here is a file to overwrite :

Thank you!!🙂

Will this work for virtuemart registration as well??

How do you want it to work with VM ?

virtuemart 1.1.2 allows the user to add and manage user fields that will show on the registration page (not that I need that ) it seems to handle all the fields in a class file called ps_shopper.php - if I create a custom registration form using chronoforms and the joomla registration technique do I just need to modify the virtuemart login and virtuemart register code to use my form? or is there more to it??

I noticed that with 3.0 we have the nice DB connection tab that allows me to select mutliple tables to dump my info into so I have access to jos_vm_user_info
is that all i need?

Hi samoht,

I don't think so, I never tried this and it will need some testing so things don't get missed up.

Max

Thanks Max,

I may try and work with my own chronoforms registartion hacked into virtuemart - or try tweaking vm to validate the way chronoforms does.