Registration requires password even using generatePassword

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nuan88 Reply #1, 8 years, 5 months ago

Hello, I have come upon an interesting problem.

My registration process is all working well, the random password and username are delivered to the user, but while the snippet is generating a new password which is sent my email with a confirmation link, when I remove the password completely from my form, something goes wrong and the user is not registered and the email isn't sent.

This is the code that I want to cut but can't, its just the password for registration.

<li"><label for="password">[[%register.password]]
            <span class="error">[[!+reg.error.password]]</span>
        </label>
        <input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="[[!+reg.password]]" />

The input itself doesn't matter as a new password gets generated anyway, and its confusing for my users for them to put in a password and then have it changed like that.

Can login register a user without a password? Or could I possibly fix this field with some string? Its going to be overwritten anyway...then I could hide it from the user completely.

Seems like a weird problem, I couldn't find anything in searching.

This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

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BobRay Reply #2, 8 years, 5 months ago

Does making it a hidden field work?

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nuan88 Reply #3, 8 years, 5 months ago

I can hide it but it can't be empty, throws an error

Could I use an output modifier...wait I got it!

     <li style="border-bottom:1px dashed #7e7e7e;"><label for="password">[[%register.password]]
            <span class="error">[[!+reg.error.password]]</span>
        </label>
        <input type="hidden" name="password" id="password" value="[[!+reg.password:default=`12345678`]]]]" />

just set a default value and hide the input!

Thanks BobRay, you've done it again!

[ed. note: nuan88 last edited this post 8 years, 5 months ago.]

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BobRay Reply #4, 8 years, 5 months ago

You're welcome.

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Answered Registration requires password even using generatePassword