Virtuemart 2.0 and user register

Question

I'm using Joomla 1.7.3 and Virtuemart 2.0, everything works except the registration of users, in previous virtuemart this worked by default, but now I can not register new users, some clue about the problem?

Answer 1

There are two things happening.

1. In VM 2.0 there is some XML missing that allows you to specify a link to a registration form - if you use the account maintenance option it gets a slightly different page (see this thread on the VirtueMart 2.0 forum). This is already fixed in the prerelease version 2.0.1b and hides some unwanted fields.

   To link to the correct page you should use a Joomla! menu type of System Links -> External URL and set the Link field to:

   /index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=user&layout=editaddress

2. The "Please enter your name." means that the field is defined in VM2's configuration as Required. I believe the problem occurs because neither the Account Maintenance or the link I provided above give the user a chance to enter a user name. The work around is to point them to a standard Joomla! registration page and then when they checkout they can complete the rest of their details.

   (In VM2 shoppers are standard Joomla! users so this is a perfectly acceptable way around it).

Answer 2

with the link you told me the problem is still happening, so I was to comment the line of user.php that making the validation in the method check()

if (trim($this->name) == '') {
        $this->setError(JText::_('JLIB_DATABASE_ERROR_PLEASE_ENTER_YOUR_NAME'));
        return false;
    }

the value for this->name is empty, why??? with this lines comment, i can register and login on virtuemart....