Add extra field(s) in registration page

Dear Tow…, this post is basically for new guys. Few guys asked me how to add extra field(s) in registration process. So, here I will try to give few technical tricks.

1. Add new fields in config xml (app\code\core\Mage\Customer\etc\config.xml). If you create new module then you can add this xml block in module config xml file. Create new module is the best practice and recommended 🙂

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fieldsets>
   <customer_account>
     <prefix><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></prefix>
     <firstname><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></firstname>
     <middlename><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></middlename>
     <lastname><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></lastname>
     <suffix><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></suffix>
     <email><create>1</create><update>1</update></email>
     <password><create>1</create></password>
     <confirmation><create>1</create></confirmation>
     <dob><create>1</create><update>1</update></dob>
     <taxvat><create>1</create><update>1</update></taxvat>
     <gender><create>1</create><update>1</update></gender>

     /* newly added field(s)*/
     <accounttype><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></accounttype>
     <companyname><create>1</create><update>1</update><name>1</name></companyname>
  </customer_account>
</fieldsets>

2. Add these extra field(s) in your respective theme registration.phtml (app\design\frontend\…\…\template\customer\form\registration.phtml). Keep the field name same as you mentioned in config.xml

3. To save extra data in database with customer registration process you have to add these extra field(s) as entity attribute in eav_attribute table. Here is sql script.

insert into `magento`.`eav_attribute` (`entity_type_id`, `attribute_code`, `attribute_model`, `backend_model`, `backend_type`, `backend_table`, `frontend_model`, `frontend_input`, frontend_label`, `frontend_class`, `source_model`, `is_required`, `is_user_defined`, `default_value`, `is_unique`, `note`)
values(1, 'accounttype', '', '', 'varchar', '', '', 'select', 'Account Type', '', '', 0, 0, '', 0,''),
        (1, 'companyname', '', '', 'varchar', '', '', 'text', 'Company Name', '', '', 0, 0, '', 0,'');

That’s all. Try and let me know if you face any complexity.

Like this you can add extra field(s) in any magento pages as well.