User registration without email address OR registration with pseudo-email address

Question

I am programmatically creating users for the roles Parent (Adult) & Child (minor). During registration, minors (Children) typically will not have email addresses but Drupal user registration requires email address.

During registration of minor, unfortunately, the adults email address cannot be reused based on Drupal’s one email rule.

My queries are as follows:

1. Is it possible that we can create users without email address?
2. If not 1. can we use some pseudo-email address that we can created for each minor. However, emails for any minor should be sent to the adults address instead.

Answer 1

I think you need an email address, but I could be wrong about this.

You can definitely provide a fake email address though.

For example, you can use hook_form_alter() to modify the registration form:

function MYMODULE_form_user_register_form_alter(&$form, FormStateInterface &$form_state, $form_id) {
  // Hide the mail form
  $form['account']['mail']['#access'] = FALSE;
  // Set the email address to [email protected]
  // You need to write this code yourself...

Make sure you set the email address to include the UID or something similar that will ensure the email is unique; Drupal has to have a unique email for each account.

Then, use hook_mail_alter to check the user's role and, if the user is a minor, query the parent's email address and send the parent an email instead.