Creating a Joomla account with dummy email adres?

Peter,
JLinked absolutely creates a 'standard' Joomla user underneath. We simply then have some functionality that says LinkedIn user 'bob' is really Joomla 'bob' and then log 'bob' into Joomla whenever they use the Login with LinkedIn button.

Adding some functionality to auto-generate an email address would actually be pretty simple. It would take a few little code changes here and there, but most of that functionality is already part of our JFBConnect extension, so it'd be easy to implement similarly in JLinked. The reason it's in JFBConnect and not JLinked currently is because LinkedIn doesn't provide a way to access a user's email address. If you don't want that, then it's pretty easy to auto-generate a username, make up an email address, and then pull in the rest of the user's profile as necessary (Full name, etc).

If interested, we can help you with what you're looking for. If you wanted to let the user fill out a registration form (including their email address so you could capture it), that functionality is already built into JLinked. After registration, they'd simply click the Login with LinkedIn button from them on to login using their LinkedIn credentials and never be aware there is an underlying Joomla user.

Hope that helps,
Alex

Peter,
The User table within Joomla has to have 'something' in the email address column. Whether that's a valid email address or not is not required. For JFBConnect, we used to have the ability to not request the user's email from Facebook (we automatically require that now due to some changes from Facebook). In that case where the admin didn't want the email, we simply made one up, like This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The email obviously didn't work, but Joomla didn't care. 3rd party extensions won't care (though they may try to email the bogus address) and the user will never need to know that was created for them unless an extension shows it to them or they go to the Edit Details page (which can be hidden).

Hope that all helps, but if you run into issues or need the info on how to auto-generate a user account, just let us know. That may take a few days to get you the info, so I'd honestly suggest just getting JLinked setup normally and work on other aspects of the site while we get you the extra info you need.

Either way, good luck!
Alex