auto generating email address for user registration

Hi

using CB Standard signup

Triggers: onBeforeSaveUserRegistrationRequest
Action: Code
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Method: PHP

if I use code

global $_POST;

$_POST = uniqid() . '@domain.com';
$_POST = $_POST;

to generate a random first part of the email address is created properly,

however the code

global $_POST;

$_POST = '[firstname]@domain.com';
$_POST = $_POST;

produces an email address of @domain.com (nothing before the @) then get an error of invalid email address as the email address created has nothing before the @

should [firstname] in code be replaced by a form variable as presumably nothing has been saved yet - if so what would the form variable be?

Regards

Adrian

should [firstname] in code be replaced by a form variable as presumably nothing has been saved yet - if so what would the form variable be?

Nope, the user object hasn't even been constructed at that point. So you can't use user substitutions as the user doesn't exist yet (in object or in the database). You'd need to directly access the POST values, but you need to secure it with some cleaning. The below should work fine.


The below will also work to use PHP to grab and clean the firstname from POST.