Registering Users without Email

Hi guys I am trying to allow users that don't have email addresses to register using their mobile phones. What I have done is make the email field not required on the registration form, added the phone field to registration and made that required and then created an field Auto Action that triggers onBeforeSaveRegistrationRequest and sets the email address to the phonenumber@default.domain. For some reason I am still getting an "The email address you entered is invalid. Please enter another email address."

The email address has to pass validation. If you're using a Field action on onBeforeSaveRegistrationRequest then you're also trying to trigger a premature user store. We don't have a fallback functionality for email fields only username fields. Joomla requires email address to function and so does CB in many regards so it can't be completely omitted from a new user create process. There isn't a trigger early enough with a user object to override this behavior.

Will see if I can improve the onStartSaveUserRegistration trigger to pass the new user object, which would allow for you to do what you're wanting using a Code action to modify the user object.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/8807

Have these changes been implemented in the latest update so I can try them?

Yes, this has been implemented. The onStartSaveUserRegistration trigger now includes a reference object of the user being created. It's accessible with var1. You can use that trigger to set data on the user object that isn't being set by registration. Example as follows.

Global
Triggers: onStartSaveUserRegistration
Type: Code
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Action
Method: PHP
Code: Parameters
References: Variable 1