register_new_user( string $user_login, string $user_email )
Handles registering a new user.
Description Description
Parameters Parameters
- $user_login
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(string) (Required) User's username for logging in
- $user_email
-
(string) (Required) User's email address to send password and add
Return Return
(int|WP_Error) Either user's ID or error on failure.
Source Source
File: wp-includes/user.php
function register_new_user( $user_login, $user_email ) { $errors = new WP_Error(); $sanitized_user_login = sanitize_user( $user_login ); /** * Filters the email address of a user being registered. * * @since 2.1.0 * * @param string $user_email The email address of the new user. */ $user_email = apply_filters( 'user_registration_email', $user_email ); // Check the username if ( $sanitized_user_login == '' ) { $errors->add( 'empty_username', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: Please enter a username.' ) ); } elseif ( ! validate_username( $user_login ) ) { $errors->add( 'invalid_username', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.' ) ); $sanitized_user_login = ''; } elseif ( username_exists( $sanitized_user_login ) ) { $errors->add( 'username_exists', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: This username is already registered. Please choose another one.' ) ); } else { /** This filter is documented in wp-includes/user.php */ $illegal_user_logins = (array) apply_filters( 'illegal_user_logins', array() ); if ( in_array( strtolower( $sanitized_user_login ), array_map( 'strtolower', $illegal_user_logins ) ) ) { $errors->add( 'invalid_username', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: Sorry, that username is not allowed.' ) ); } } // Check the email address if ( $user_email == '' ) { $errors->add( 'empty_email', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: Please type your email address.' ) ); } elseif ( ! is_email( $user_email ) ) { $errors->add( 'invalid_email', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: The email address isn’t correct.' ) ); $user_email = ''; } elseif ( email_exists( $user_email ) ) { $errors->add( 'email_exists', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: This email is already registered, please choose another one.' ) ); } /** * Fires when submitting registration form data, before the user is created. * * @since 2.1.0 * * @param string $sanitized_user_login The submitted username after being sanitized. * @param string $user_email The submitted email. * @param WP_Error $errors Contains any errors with submitted username and email, * e.g., an empty field, an invalid username or email, * or an existing username or email. */ do_action( 'register_post', $sanitized_user_login, $user_email, $errors ); /** * Filters the errors encountered when a new user is being registered. * * The filtered WP_Error object may, for example, contain errors for an invalid * or existing username or email address. A WP_Error object should always returned, * but may or may not contain errors. * * If any errors are present in $errors, this will abort the user's registration. * * @since 2.1.0 * * @param WP_Error $errors A WP_Error object containing any errors encountered * during registration. * @param string $sanitized_user_login User's username after it has been sanitized. * @param string $user_email User's email. */ $errors = apply_filters( 'registration_errors', $errors, $sanitized_user_login, $user_email ); if ( $errors->has_errors() ) { return $errors; } $user_pass = wp_generate_password( 12, false ); $user_id = wp_create_user( $sanitized_user_login, $user_pass, $user_email ); if ( ! $user_id || is_wp_error( $user_id ) ) { $errors->add( 'registerfail', sprintf( /* translators: %s: Admin email address. */ __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: Couldn’t register you… please contact the <a href="mailto:%s">webmaster</a> !' ), get_option( 'admin_email' ) ) ); return $errors; } update_user_option( $user_id, 'default_password_nag', true, true ); //Set up the Password change nag. /** * Fires after a new user registration has been recorded. * * @since 4.4.0 * * @param int $user_id ID of the newly registered user. */ do_action( 'register_new_user', $user_id ); return $user_id; }
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