creating new user front end [closed]

Question

I'm creating a new user (v3.x) via a module helper function.

the helper function is called via AJAX. this all works fine.

I'm having trouble getting the user registration to work.

I've previously written this for a back end component and thought the code would just move across but it doesn't any help would be great:

            $data['name'] = $userName;
            $data['username'] = $userName;
            $data['email1'] = $email;
            $data['email2'] = $email1;
            $pwd = md5($password1);
            $data['password1'] = $pwd;
            $data['password2'] = $pwd;

            $language = JFactory::getLanguage();

            $language->load('com_users', JPATH_SITE, 'en-GB', true);

            JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_ROOT . '/components/com_users/models');


            $model = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Registration', 'UsersModel');

            $return = $model->register($data);

Answer 1

Okay so fixed the problem with this (and accounted for the MD5 issue)

            $data['name'] = $userName;
            $data['username'] = $userName;
            $data['email1'] = $email1;
            $data['email2'] = $email1;
            $data['password1'] = $pwd;
            $data['password2'] = $pwd;

            $language = JFactory::getLanguage();

            $language->load('com_users', JPATH_SITE, 'en-GB', true);

            JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_users/models', 'UsersModel');

            $model = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Registration', 'UsersModel', array('ignore_request' => true));

            $return = $model->register($data);

Okay so this wasn't just a typo!

I wasn't using the api to the core correctly . Although there was a minor typo in the email actually I also fixed the user models with the correct calls into the API to get it to work correctly.

In regards to encryption this provides Joomla encryption since it uses the Joomla Users model. So by using the Joomla API I don't actually need to encrypt anything. Worth pointing out that the website is SSL certificated so the password is passed to the site in an encrypted manner so exposure of the password happens in a "standard" way.