In this article we will teach you how to create a user registration form on a Joomla website so you can customize the fields, ask for the information you need, and later export the registrations from PHPMyAdmin. The component we will use is Community Builder, which offers a large number of features to customize our form.
Community Builder
Community Builder, in addition to simplifying member registration in Joomla, also allows you to create your own community, accept user connections, and extend the component with plugins. Once the component is installed in Joomla, go to Components and click on Community Builder and you will see the administrator panel of the extension.
In the panel you will find the tabs User Management, Tab Management, Field Management, List Management, Plugin Management, Tools, and Configuration. We will focus on User Management and Field Management.
How to create the registration form
First you will need to go to Field Management and click on New Field and the first option you will find is Type (there are more than 14 types of fields) and you will have to choose between a simple or multiple text field, calendar, dropdown menu, email, image insertion, and password among other types of fields.
Then you will have to select the form, the name, and the title and on the right you can determine the length and other options of the field. If you chose a field that has several options such as Drop Down (Multi-select), in this case you can add new values at the bottom of the field.
Then in the center of the Field Panel you will find the field configurations, where you can determine if the field is required or not, show the title and the size among other options. From the text editor you will have the option to incorporate text so that it appears when the user places the cursor over the field title.
As you can see, creating a fully customized registration form is really simple to do with Community Builder.
User database
If you go to User Management, you will find a list with all the member users who have registered in the component and for each user you can see all the personal information field by field.
Also, if you want to download the user database in MySQL format or CSV, you will have to go to your hosting server and click on PHPMyAdmin and select the users table and export all its content.
As you can see, the possibilities that Community Builder offers us are very great, both for the custom creation of forms, and for exporting and migrating members to another platform.
Community Builder is a free extension, for Joomla platforms, it has plugins to extend its features, languages, and it has a much more powerful commercial version.
