Joomla User Profile Fields Not Showing on Registration Page

Joomla User Profile Fields Not Showing on Registration Page and K2 User Profile Fields are Showing up which I don't want to show. I will use a plugin to add the Joomla User Profile Fields to the K2.

How do I show the Joomla User Fields and Joomla User Profile fields on the Registration and My Profile pages and nothing else.

Thanks Alex, I created the user registration flow on a dev site first see; webdev.911truthoutreach.org/my-profile.html?view=registration

When I ported this over to the live site things didn't work the same even though I though I was updating files on both site as I went through the process: see: www.911truthoutreach.org/my-profile.html?view=registration

I made some changes on the live site and added CSS to make the form and Captcha responsive, but otherwise I believe everything else is exactly the same.

I noticed one thing, however, and that is that JFB Connect isn't picking up the Language overrides on the live site.

Once once logged in an edit the User Profile, things are very different.

This has got me stumped, because everything enabled on the dev site is enabled on the live site, in fact I put the two side by side and went down the lists for every selection in both JFBConnect and Joomla Users and User Profile and everything is exactly the same.

One thing that does involve JFBConnect and that is the Edit My Profile page is using the K2 Users information and I have specifically indicated everywhere in every plugin, module and component that I would be using Joomla Users and Joomla User - Profile and yet I am still getting the K2 fields on the Edit My Profile Page. Can you point me to the instructions for setting up the Joomla Users Registration and Edit My Profile pages again. With Users - Joomla and User - Profile as well as Social Profiles - Joomla and Social Profiles - K2 enabled I should be getting the Joomla Extended Profiles displayed on the Edit My Profile page. Do I have to turn Social Profiles - K2 off to keep the K2 fields from appearing? What about the K2 Extended Profiles plugin does this affect anything? I have Easy Profiles, but I have disabled all it's plugins as I don't want to complicate things.

There was something I did on the dev site however which involved enabling something and after that something was enabled more options appeared and then I selected those options. Don't remember where that was.

One other thing I don't understand and that is JFBConnect isn't picking up any of the Language overrides on the live site, but is picking up the language overrides on the dev site. I have to edit the files directly in /language/en-GB/en-GB.com_jfbconnect.ini and modifying /template/my-template/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_jfbconnect.ini has no effect on the live site. I wonder if this is an indication that something is amiss on the live site? Maybe a re-install of JFBConnect on the live site? The dev site is http. but the live site is https, but I made sure that everything was configured for https on the live site.

The reason I am using the Joomla Registration, Profile and Login pages instead of JFBConnect Registration, Profile and Login pages is because ACYMailing is adding a check-box through a plugin that will allow subscribing to the newsletter on the Registration page, but the plugin is for Joomla Users. I told them that JFBConnect does support Joomla Users, so If I use the Joomla Registration page, I will be able to add a check-box for users to subscribe to our newsletter at the same time they register an account. I couldn't get them to make a plugin specifically for JFBConnect, they said they would make a plugin for Joomla Users such that any component that supports Joomla Users would be able to display the Newsletter subscription check box; maybe you guys could connect?

But thanks for the attempt, I believe you are right, this is a Joomla thing and not a JFBC thing.

Thanks Alex. that removed a lot of possibilities and narrowed my targets down to a manageable number.

The Social Profiles - Joomla and Social Profiles - K2 plugins will *only* affect JFBConnect's component pages.

If I used the JFBConnect Registration Page, would it bring in the newsletter subscription check-box from Joomla Users, or would I have to modify, through an override, the JFBConnect plugin responsible for that? In your opinion, am I better off using the JFBConnect Registration flow rather than the Joomla registration flow. It will take ACYMailing two months to crank out the plugin I mentioned, in less time I could modify the JFBC plugin and add the ACYMailing code.

Again though, if you're using the Joomla registration page, whether the user gets there through a social network registration via JFBConnect or by going to that page directly, the page is controlled by Joomla and other plugins that modify it (like K2). JFBConnect *only* adds the social login buttons to that page if you have the "Integrate with Joomla Login" setting enabled. We don't add or remove any fields that are shown on that page.

Alex, in your opinion, what is the best approach to setting up the login - register -edit pages with JFBConnect?

If the K2 fields are appearing, you need to configure that in K2 (or disable the K2 - System plugin entirely). K2 Extended Profiles is not our extension, and I don't know how to configure that either.

I will look into K2 to find the answers for the display anomalies as you pointed out. In the Components -> K2 -> Users, select "Parameters" in the upper right corner of the page, Then select the "Advanced" tab near the top of that page, and set "Enable K2 User Profile" to No. That will prevent the K2 Users fields from being added to the Joomla User Profile page.

I'm didn't know that the template language override method still worked, actually. I know that was a feature of Joomla 1.5, but thought it was removed in 2.5+. I'd have to look into that ability further. There's a separate Language Override feature in Joomla 2.5 that can be used to override output language strings from the Language Manager.

As far as Language overrides, using the old method works on the dev site, but not on the live site. Using Joomla's Language Override component works, but when I add a character like 👉 Joomla doesn't seem to know what to do with it. That character is a white hand with a finger pointing left. I thought that when I configured Joomla to use Unicode UTF-8 encoding that Joomla then supports the entire character set. I noticed that Google Chrome doesn't support the entire UTF-8 character set either, Firefox does. When I edit en-GB.jfbconnect.ini in /language/en-GB 👉 displays correctly, at least, in Firefox.

Another thank You Alex. Thanks for the tip on the language overrides. You are probably correct that the web interface isn't representing the Unicode correctly.

We only have a handful of users right now so it isn't a big deal to connect all those users to their Social Media accounts as that should happen as new users register and elect to connect their user account to their Social Media account; i.e. we get confirmation from them that they want to do this.

As far as having all the user profiles from all the installed components on one page is a bit much, I would actually have to have them each on their own tab, a bit of overkill for what we need now. Besides the K2 component requires a lot of styling work to make the fields they contribute behave. This may change when K2 3.0 comes out, if it ever does, Foitis has been promising this for over a year now.

I have also enabled the EasyProfile plugin, and I am intrigued by this, it gives me a lot of control over user profile and I can add fields to the database and to the Joomla interface without having to manually hack com_users, which isn't difficult, but of course my work is lost when I upgrade and I would have to copy my hacked version of com_users for both the user side and the admin side back into their respective directories and then I have no guarantee that Joomla didn't change the structure of those files possibly making my hacked version break the site.

Is there any known issues with using EasyProfile together with JFBConnect that you are aware of. I like EasyProfile because I can order the fields any way I choose and add any fields unique to this site, and include an avatar as well. Now the question is will this work with JFBConnect. I will not be enabling the Social Media plugins that come with EasyProfile as I am totally sold on JFBConnect. EasyProfile just provides a slick way of creating really nice registration / edit my account pages.

Sorry to start down this different avenue, but EasyProfiles solves a lot of the deficiencies of the default Joomla Registration.