hui. best practice piece of code... thanks @Matt and @Ismayil for sharing this one.

Yes of course, thanks IK!

return true;

:)

@Team Webgalll I did override the form and action. made changes to start.php according to your instruction. I am still getting the error, "Your registration was unsuccessful because of unknown error". i can have the file with the same name as in the core right, for example register.php?

@iionly Rightnow i am giving username to make it work, but eventually i would like to remove it.I would check the twitter plugin too.

Thanks

@Matt, should we wrap it up as a tutorial? 

@neupas : If you are on elgg 1.8 series the best is to use the code Matt and Ik suggested. The one we posted is for 1.7 series.

@IK - Might as well, this is a *perfect* example of both overwriting a view and extending an action

doing good fellas ;-) i bin watchin quietly..

Guys: You rules. Period.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful tutorial.

@Ismayil and Matt, I made all the recommended changes and tried to register a user.I am getting error,"sorry your username contains character that is invalid". so i used $username=microtime(get_as_float)but still getting the same error. i tried to change the column type for username to float but no success.

Should i completely drop the column and start from scratch?

Regards

neupas

Right, you need a string without spaces... so, do something like str_replace(' ', '', $username); or just use time() that should be unique enough :)