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Add Extra Fields to Joomla 2.5 Registration Form

by Pat Fortino

  •  From the Allow User Registration field, select Yes.
  • Click Save & Close.
  • Make sure the Login module is published or that you have a menu link of the type Registration Form.
  • From the front end of your website, click the registration link to display the Joomla Registration Form.
    You should see the extra fields displayed in the form.
    joomla-registration-form-with-extra-fields
  • If you want to change the field names, use the Joomla Language Manager and enter the Language Constant and value; for example: PLG_USER_PROFILE_FIELD_ADDRESS1_LABEL=”Address 1:”
    You can find all the Language Constants / Field names in the following file: /administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.plg_user_profile.ini
  • To access the Joomla Language Manager, from the Joomla Admin menu select Extensions > Language Manager.

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    1. nancy says

      loved finding this…

      now that I can add a birthday to the user profile… is there a module that will pull this and display on a web page – something like the Newest Registered Users but more like a “birthdays this week”…

    2. eleni says

      Thanks for this tutorial. It helped me a lot. Do you know how i can add these new extra fields to the email notification I receive when a new user registers? If you can help that would be great.

    3. Philip says

      Well I cant find the Language Constant PLG_USER_PROFILE_FIELD_ADDRESS1_LABEL or anythiung similar by search for “constant” in Language Manager: Edit Override

    4. joshi says

      add desired filed to db then make appropriate changes to following files

      1) libraries/joomla/user/user.php
      2) components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml
      3) language/en-GB/en-GB.com_users.ini
      4) administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_users.ini
      5) administrator/components/com_users/models/forms/user.xml

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