How can I get the email address of a user who has just registered?

Question

I need to add a hash key to users on register, generated from their email address and the current time, I added the field 'field_subscription_key' to user's fields and I hooked into

custom_newsletter_mail_user_insert(&$edit, $account, $category)

in module's .module file, I have no idea how can I get the email address and time the user was created from these above parameters.

Also, I don't know how to get the user entity, so I would insert the hash key.

Answer 1

The docs on the core entities are really good. Here are the docs on the User class.

You should be able to get the email with:

$email = $account->getEmail();

And the created time with:

$created = $account->getCreatedTime();