Hi,
A. If you don't have any links to the HikaShop registration page, your users won't be able to access it.
And if you don't want them to access it, there are already two ways to do it:
- you can add a redirection in htaccess or with AdminTools
- you can add a
at the beginning of the view file user / form to prevent the display of the registration form. Or you can add a
<?php JFactory::getApplication()->redirect('xxx'); ?>
where xxx is the URL of your Joomla registration form to redirect there.
3. If you set the "registration" setting to "guest" then already, bots won't be able to register through HikaShop.
As I said, I understand what you're saying, but the vast majority of merchants using HikaShop do want their users to be able to register through HikaShop. And there are many settings already in HikaShop. Adding yet another setting for something almost no one wants to do, while it's actually quite easy to do with the guest mode and a redirect or small view override, doesn't seem justified to me.
5. I read more information on their page and they say
Aimy Captcha-Less Form Guard implements the Joomla! Captcha interface. Therefore all extensions that support to make use of Joomla! captcha plugins can be protected by this plugin
We didn't implement the Joomla! Captcha interface in HikaShop. So that extension won't work with the HikaShop registration form.
The other extension I had recommended however uses the users events of Joomla and this will work with HikaShop's registration form. I thought it would actually be the case for other plugins too. I didn't thought that Aimy's plugin would rely on something else.