Merging registration form with default login page of magento (creating mini registration form):

In this article, I will be explaining how to merge the customer registration form with the default login form of Magento.

Let’s take a look at the following snapshots. You will know what i am talking about:

1. Creating mini.register.phtml file:

First you need to create a new template file: app/design/frontend/[your-interface]/[your-theme]/template/customer/form/mini.register.phtml
And copy the contents of default register file: app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/register.phtml to the mini.register.phtml and customize as per your requirement.
If you want like the one depicted in above snapshot then you can simply download the customized mini.register.phtml file from [here]

2. Including mini.register.phtml in login.phtml

First copy the file: app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/login.phtml to your current theme as:
app/design/frontend/[your-interface]/[your-theme]/template/customer/form/login.phtml
And now you need to modify the new login.phtml so that you can include the contents of mini.register.phtml.
For this, you have to use the following xml code in your layout xml file (preferably in app/design/frontend/[your-interface]/[your-theme]/layout/local.xml) as:

<customer_account_login translate="label">

    <reference name="content">

        <action method="unsetChild"><child>customer_form_login</child></action>

        <block type="customer/form_login" name="customer_form_login2" template="customer/form/login.phtml" >

            <block type="customer/form_register" name="customer_form_register2" template="customer/form/mini.register.phtml">

                <block type="page/html_wrapper" name="customer.form.register.fields.before" as="form_fields_before" />

            </block>

        </block>

    </reference>

    <reference name="head">

        <action method="setTitle" translate="title" module="customer"><title>Login or Create an Account</title></action>

    </reference>

</customer_account_login>

 

Now you can simply include the mini.register.phtml in your new login.phtml file as:

 

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('customer_form_register2');