Hi,

I’ve been trying to find answers to this for hours but haven’t been successful so any help appreciated.

I would like to create a member registration form.

There’s nothing about it in the documentation hereMember Management Module

Trawling through the wiki though I found this:

Standalone Registration Form

How do I get this to work - at the moment using this code just produces text fields that don’t do anything.

Working through the control admin panel I found this:

CP Home ›  Admin ›  Members and Groups ›  Member Profile Templates ›  Default ›  Registration Form

But once again adding the code to a site template just resulted in chaos.

Any help gratefully received, and an addition to the documentation on how to do this should be essential. There’s info on adding a login form but nothing that tells me how to add a registration form to my website.

Thanks.

The registration form- and pretty much the whole member area- is already there ‘stock’- though if you want to change the look, that’s a different matter.  Is it possible to link to the site in action?  And this section of the docs tells you how to generate links that should take you to the main member control panel frontend pages.  But, let’s see if we can get those pages showing- usually the url will be mysite.com/index.php/member/login or member/register for two examples.

Robin Sowell - 22 May 2008 09:53 AM

The registration form- and pretty much the whole member area- is already there ‘stock’- though if you want to change the look, that’s a different matter.  Is it possible to link to the site in action?  And this section of the docs tells you how to generate links that should take you to the main member control panel frontend pages.  But, let’s see if we can get those pages showing- usually the url will be mysite.com/index.php/member/login or member/register for two examples.

Thanks for the reply Robin. 

For now I’ve put a link to the ‘stock’ template. Is it easy to customise the look and feel of this?

I will need to create a custom standalone registration form at a later date though so will probably need a bit of help in doing this.

While the member templates can be customised, this is not quite as straightforward as the rest of the “regular” templates. These templates are handled a little bit differently, which you can see by viewing the templates themselves.

Ingmar Greil - 22 May 2008 01:29 PM

While the member templates can be customised, this is not quite as straightforward as the rest of the “regular” templates. I generally don’t find it worth my while, to be honest.

What should I do?

My suggestion would be to work with the default templates for the time being, and worry about if after sorting out the rest of your site.

Ingmar Greil - 22 May 2008 01:55 PM

My suggestion would be to work with the default templates for the time being, and worry about if after sorting out the rest of your site.

Why have you modified your original reply? You said:

While the member templates can be customised, this is not quite as straightforward as the rest of the “regular” templates. I generally don’t find it worth my while, to be honest.

If you are suggesting that this isn’t the best option then could you please suggest an alternative?

Thanks you.

mork, If you really want to modify the look and feel of the registration form, you might want to consider the Solspace User module, which is a for-pay module.

Docs for User

If you want more help with using the code in the wiki, I can move this over to HowTo where it would be a better fit.

mork - 22 May 2008 03:36 PM

Why have you modified your original reply? You said:

While the member templates can be customised, this is not quite as straightforward as the rest of the “regular” templates. I generally don’t find it worth my while, to be honest.

If you are suggesting that this isn’t the best option then could you please suggest an alternative?

I have modified my response because I realised it sounded slightly more negative than I had intended it to be. Fact is, the member templates are a little different. They can be customised, but it requires some knowledge of PHP, and generally a somewhat different skillset than the “regular” templates. Ultimately you and/or your client have to decide whether you want to go down that road, or simply work with the existing, perfectly usable, templates. Many users do, myself usually included.

Just to clarify a bit - I’ve customized the member templates on many, many sites and have minimal PHP knowledge.  You only need PHP knowledge if you modify the themes directly via FTP, and that is only the ability to see where the actual HTML begins, and not touch any of the PHP code.

What I do, instead, is modify them via the CP (Admin -> Members & Groups -> Membership Profile Templates) and work with them that way, where no PHP is shown.  the templates do interconnect quite a bit, so you’ll want to familiarize yourself with them a bit before you begin.  I found that, for the most part, the easiest thing to do to integrate them was to work mainly with the Global templates and the CSS.

Lisa Wess - 22 May 2008 11:13 PM

Just to clarify a bit - I’ve customized the member templates on many, many sites and have minimal PHP knowledge.  You only need PHP knowledge if you modify the themes directly via FTP, and that is only the ability to see where the actual HTML begins, and not touch any of the PHP code.

What I do, instead, is modify them via the CP (Admin -> Members & Groups -> Membership Profile Templates) and work with them that way, where no PHP is shown.  the templates do interconnect quite a bit, so you’ll want to familiarize yourself with them a bit before you begin.  I found that, for the most part, the easiest thing to do to integrate them was to work mainly with the Global templates and the CSS.

Thanks for the help Lisa, I’ll take a look at the options you’ve mentioned.

So, looks like you’re all set for the time being, yes? I am going ahead and close this thread. If anything else comes up, related ot not, kindly start a new thread. Thank you.