This document summarizes two solutions for simplifying the Joomla user registration form. The first solution uses a plugin to make it so the user only needs to enter their email and password once instead of twice. The second solution involves overriding the registration template using a template override file and adding JavaScript to achieve the same result. Additional customizations like removing the username field and splitting the name field into first and last name fields are also described.

1. Simplify your Joomla user
registration form
Presented at Sydney Joomla User Group 8th
November 2016
By Tim Plummer

2. Standard Joomla Registration Form
Need to enter password and email twice

3. What I wanted

4. 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

5. Solution 1 - plugin

6. Solution 1 - plugin
That’s one way to do it

7. Solution 2 – template override
/components/com_users/views/registration/tm
pl/default.php
Copy to
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/regis
tration/default.php

8. Solution 2 – template override
Add in some javascript

9. The result so far
Now we only have one password and email field

10. Now to get rid of username
Using template override option

11. Getting closer

12. Now to split name into firstname and
lastname
Using User Enhancement Manager (UE Man)

13. We have all the fields now
But it doesn’t look pretty yet

14. Time to rewrite the template override

15. Fields are in right order now

16. Now apply some CSS styling

17. Questions?

18. Tim Plummer
www.tamlynsoftware.com
@bfsurvey