Creating wordpress user using form

Question

I am having a form page called Test Form with this form :

<div id="container">
<form action="wp-content/themes/max-magazine/TestForm.php" method="post" name="myForm">
User <input type="text"  name="uname" />
Email  <input id="email" type="text" name="uemail" />
Password  <input type="password"  name="upass" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /></form>
</div>

And in backend am having a php file named TestForm.php

<?php 
function create_account(){
$user = 'AccountID';
$pass = 'AccountPassword';
$email = '[email protected]';
if ( !username_exists( $user )  && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
    $user_id = wp_create_user( $user, $pass, $email );
    $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
    $user->set_role( 'contributor' );
} 
}
add_action('init','create_account');
?>

Now if this function is defined in function.php then it works fine and create the user but same function in TestForm.php does not work.Please help

Also I will be fetching data from form like this :

<?php
$user = $_POST['uname'];
$pass = $_POST['upass'];
$email = $_POST['uemail'];
?>

Ajesh VC · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-17 08:19:55Z

1

You need to change the from action url correctly.
You just using this in your form

<form action="http://yourdomain.com/Test-form" method="post" name="myForm"/>

to give this action url to form follow the steps

Step1 --Creating page

Here Test-form is a page you need to create in your wordpress dashboard through
pages->Add new, give name Test-form for page.
and on creating this page assign template as Test form template from Default template (see right panel of dashboard to select templates).

step2 --creating page template Test form template in TestForm.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Test form template
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions.php');//already have their works if your file location changed ?>
<!-- Your action page contents goes here -->
<?php
$user = $_POST['uname'];
$pass = $_POST['upass'];
$email = $_POST['uemail'];
function create_account(){
$user = 'AccountID';
$pass = 'AccountPassword';
$email = '[email protected]';
if ( !username_exists( $user )  && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
    $user_id = wp_create_user( $user, $pass, $email );
    $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
    $user->set_role( 'contributor' );
} 
}
do_action('init');
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Now save this in your theme directory as TestForm.php(wp-contents/themes/yourtheme/TestForm.php)
and this TestForm.php file will add Test form template , this you can add in step1

In your theme's functions.php file, or the like:

add_action('init','create_account');

In the page template Test form template use

do_action('init');

edited Jul 17, 2014 at 8:19

answered Jul 16, 2014 at 15:17

Ajesh VC

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3 Comments

user3840069 Over a year ago

But the form is directing to the TestForm.php on click of submit button.So i dont find any issues with url

user3840069 Over a year ago

The problem am facing is the same function is working fine in functions.php but when i use it in TestForm.php then it doen't work.So is their a way that i can use function defined their in TestForm.php with arguments being the (user,pass,email)?

Ajesh VC Over a year ago

i think i just edit the answer as you expecting try the code,comment the issue if you have any more

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