Remove Guest from the event registration form's Name field

The event registration form's Name field will always be automatically completed with either the logged-in user's name or, if the user is not logged in, with the default value Guest. Should you require to remove Guest and simply leave the field blank for non-logged-in users, here's what you need to do:

The text that gets added automatically as the field's default value is actually being pulled from the language files, namely:

\administrator\language\en-GB\en-GB.com_rseventspro.ini

and is being provided by the following line:

COM_RSEVENTSPRO_GLOBAL_GUEST="Guest"

There are 2 ways in which you can remove the Name field's default value:

Delete the text

Under the path specified above, simply delete the text associated with the COM_RSEVENTSPRO_GLOBAL_GUEST constant.

Note that this solution is NOT recommended, as any changes made directly to the language files will be lost upon future updates.

Create a Language Override

Joomla! offers the possibility to create language overrides. Using this feature you can set up Joomla! to use a different, custom version of a constant's value normally specified in a language file, without actually replacing the original's value.

To achieve this, please take the following steps:

• Head to Extensions >> Language Manager >> Overrides
• click on New
• add COM_RSEVENTSPRO_GLOBAL_GUEST in the Language Constant field
• leave the Text field empty
• click on Save or Save & Close