[wp-hackers] Best practice: custom registration form

[Patrik Bóna]

I've created custom registration form for one website.

I've used custom page template for doing this (together with my form 
system). Execution of form is first thing in template, so i can do 
redirection, or set cookies...

If you are creating it just for yourself and not for some plugin which 
should be for everybody then i think that best solution is to use custom 
page template.

I've created a lot of forms this way and for me it is best approach.

Patrik

On 08/03/2010 08:13 PM, Lox wrote:
> 2010/8/4 Frank Bueltge<frank at bueltge.de>:
>    
>> WP has fuctions for this job, see on wp_login_form
>>      
> Mmmh well I can't find any wp_login_form.php but a wp_login.php that I
> am currently duplicating to be available from the frontend, integrated
> into a choosen page.
>
>    
>> Is easy-contact to use without plugins, you can also use wp_rewrite for
>> Customer rewrite
>>      
> wp_rewrite will take over the whole target page whereas I want to use
> it so the WP admins can set/edit the title and a descriptive text for
> the registration page and also link to it from the new nav_menu
> system.
>
>    
>> On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, Lox<lox.dev at knc.nc>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I do not like the short-code approach ei...
>>>        
>> Trying to avoid short codes entirely is asking for headaches when you
>> are using wp. They are the most common solution to many problems and
>> are popular because they are easy to create and use. If you are having
>> scaling issues you need to work on them separately, banning short
>> codes is not an efficient use of time
>>      
> I never talked about banning short-codes and I make extensive use of
> them in my project.
>
> But it is a waste of ressources to set a shortcode that will be used
> only ONCE in a website of over 300 pages....
>
>    
>>      
> So I decided to use the do_action('registration_form') approach. It is
> added manually for now but it will override the target page template
> with its own when finished.
>
> Now i face the problem (that I will have faced using shortcodes) that
> I can't set any header, either for setting cookies or for
> redirecting...
>
>