More fields in joomla registration

Hey guys!
Very very good component here, congratz!

This is my question: How can i add more custom fields in a registration form with chronoforms and save them in a database table?

Thank you in advance!

Hi Prova2,

Which version of ChronoForms are you using? You can find the version from Site Admin | Extensions | Install/Uninstall | Components in Joomla! 1.5 or Site Admin | Extensions | Extension Manager | Manage in Joomla! 1.6.

Bob

Hey GreyHead thanks for your quick reply!
Version i'm using is Chronoforms 4.0 and Joomla 1.5.23

Hi Prova2,

We don't yet have a tutorial for doing this in ChronoForms v4. (There is one for ChronoForms v3 on my site at greyhead.net).

You need to set up a separate table for the extra data including a 'user_id' column for the User ID.

Add a Custom Code action after the Joomla! Registration action and add this code

<?php
$form->data['user_id'] = $form->data['_PLUGINS_']['joomla_registration']->id;
?>

After this add a DB Save action linked to your new table.

Note: not tested and will need debugging.

Bob

Hi Bob

I've been fiddling around with this problem for a while - getting a null result from $form->data['user_id'] = $form->data['_PLUGINS_']['joomla_registration']->id;

I think its because the registration action doesn't actually log you in, so you're still logged out (ie with id not set) while you're going through follow-on registration forms.

I'm trying to get the following to work - basically retrieving users email from Data->Session, then querying jos_users on it to get the joomla id key. Still no joy : can you spot my error or suggest a better method please ?

Thanks, Steve

$emailsess = $form->data[email];   //this bit works fine - $emailsess is actual email address

$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT * from jos_users WHERE email = ".$emailsess;

$db->setQuery($query);

$result = $db->loadRow();
$result2 = $result['0'];

Update - sorted. ~Had to quote the email string :

<?php

$emailsess = "'".$form->data[inp_email]."'";

$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT * from jos_users WHERE email = ".$emailsess;

$db->setQuery($query);

$result = $db->loadRow();
$result2 = $result['0'];

$form->data[user_id] = $result2;
?>