Magento 2 Custom Customer Attribute type not saving the value

Question

I have created custom module to create custom customer attribute and its working fine for all type i.e select,file.. but not saving the value like email type.

below is the code to create attribute

       $attributeCode = 'referred_email';

        $customerSetup->addAttribute(
                \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer::ENTITY, $attributeCode, [
            'type' => 'static',
            'label' => 'Referral Email',
            'input' => 'text',
            'source' => '',
            'required' => false,
            'visible' => true,
            'position' => 201,
            'validate_rules' =>'{"input_validation":"email"}',
            'system' => false,
            'backend' => ''
                ]
        );

        // show the attribute in the following forms
        $attribute = $customerSetup
                ->getEavConfig()
                ->getAttribute(
                        \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer::ENTITY, $attributeCode
                )
                ->addData(
                ['used_in_forms' => [
                        'adminhtml_customer',
                        'adminhtml_checkout',
                        'customer_account_create',
                        'customer_account_edit'
                    ]
        ]);

        $attribute->save();

    }

Attribute created successfully but when put email id in input type and save customer ,it not saving and display blank in field while others are working fine.

Please help what am I missing in code.

Answer 1

Change attribute type to varchar instead of static, and try again.

  $attributeCode = 'referred_email';

            $customerSetup->addAttribute(
                    \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer::ENTITY, $attributeCode, [
                'type' => 'varchar',
                'label' => 'Referral Email',
                'input' => 'text',
                'source' => '',
                'required' => false,
                'visible' => true,
                'position' => 201,
                'validate_rules' =>'{"input_validation":"email"}',
                'system' => false,
                'backend' => ''
                    ]
            );

            // show the attribute in the following forms
            $attribute = $customerSetup
                    ->getEavConfig()
                    ->getAttribute(
                            \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer::ENTITY, $attributeCode
                    )
                    ->addData(
                    ['used_in_forms' => [
                            'adminhtml_customer',
                            'adminhtml_checkout',
                            'customer_account_create',
                            'customer_account_edit'
                        ]
            ]);

            $attribute->save();

        }

I hope this will help you!!!