Question Cannot register any users!

Dear experts

Just installed Kunena and the forum shows up just fine. However, nothing happens when I try to register a new user using Joomla's built-in login for. Registration page just refreshes.

I've looked through the configuration options, but don't know where I'm taking a wrong turn.

Please note that the website is being built on a local server.

Thank you in advance. Any help greatly appreciated.

G'day, sylther, and welcome to the forum. I sometimes have to remind new users about the policy relating to the Support category where you posted your question: K 1.5.x Support: Please read this first.

So, having said this, can you please fill in the missing blanks: What version of Kunena are you using? What Kunena template are you using? What version of Joomla are you using?

Many new users are unaware that Kunena is not responsible for user registration or login or logout: these are Joomla functions. Kunena is not responsible for user registration, pure and simple. User registration is a Joomla function that may, or may not, be assisted by other components such as JomSocial or Community Builder or others. Kunena makes it possible to utilise these other components. In short, these are not Kunena matters.

Can you please demonstrate how you feel that your problems tie-in with Kunena? What is this "registration page" that keeps "refreshing". Who designed or developed it?

Thank you for the fast reply.

First, I'm a Joomla newbie, so maybe I'm going about this thing in the wrong way. For that I apologize.

I'm running Joomla 1.5.15 on a local installation (Xampp). Kunena version 1.5.11. Template: default_ex.

I don't have any community components (such as Community Builder) installed. Do I need that? I guess I just figured that Joomla's login form would tie up with the login needed to use the Kunena forum. I have user registration set to yes in the global configurations of Joomla. The only reason for my website to have a login form is in order to use your forum component.

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

User registration is a bit trickier on a local PC - like one running WAMP or XAMPP - because you don't have a mail server. So how do you do the user confirmation? This is a Joomla issue. Please look at help.joomla.org to address your user registration issues.

Kunena is not responsible for user registration, pure and simple. I don't know any other way of saying this. You don't need any other components to register your users but, in a local server configuration, users cannot self-register. In other words (because you don't have a mail server) you have to do the user confirmation yourself. This is a Joomla User Administration issue - it has nothing to do with Kunena.

I had a similar issue with the register link, when the Joomla regform appeared it just stayed there no matter how many times u entered reg info.

I used a little hack (dunno if its okay to post this but it might help to resolve the problem) in the profilebox.php which is located in YourJoomlaroot/components/com_kunena/template/default/plugin/profilebox/profilebox.php

Find this portion of the file using Ctr+F and just enter LOGIN. You should get something like this:

<?php // AFTER LOGIN AREA
if ($fbConfig->fb_profile == 'cb')
{
$loginlink = CKunenaCBProfile::getLoginURL();
$logoutlink = CKunenaCBProfile::getLogoutURL();
$registerlink = CKunenaCBProfile::getRegisterURL();
$lostpasslink = CKunenaCBProfile::getLostPasswordURL();
}
else if ($fbConfig->fb_profile == 'jomsocial')
{
$loginlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&amp;view=frontpage');
$logoutlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&amp;view=frontpage');
$registerlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&amp;view=register');
$lostpasslink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&amp;view=frontpage');
}
else
{
$loginlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=login');
$logoutlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=login');
$registerlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=register&amp;Itemid=' . $Itemid);
$lostpasslink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=reset&amp;Itemid=' . $Itemid);
}

Now for the mod (if You are just using Joomla and not using Jomsocial or CB than this should be enough:

//In this last section at &registerlink explain to the router function to run the task
$loginlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=login');
$logoutlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=login');
$registerlink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;task=register&amp;Itemid=' . $Itemid); //U can see I've changed the 'view' function to 'task' function
$lostpasslink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_user&amp;view=reset&amp;Itemid=' . $Itemid);
}

There. Works fine for me - hope it helps U2


Cheers!

Vlad, thank you for your help. I tried your solution today, but without success. I still cannot register any new members.