Programatically saving customer and address in the same controller

Question

Is it possible to save the customer details as well as the address details in the same controller? When I try, it fails saying "customer email is required".

Here's my code:

$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");
$customer   ->setWebsiteId($websiteId)
        ->setStore($store)
        ->setFirstname('John')
        ->setLastname('Doe')
        ->setEmail('[email protected]')
        ->setPassword('somepassword');

$address = Mage::getModel("customer/address");
$address->setCustomerId($customer->getId())
    ->setFirstname($customer->getFirstname())
    ->setMiddleName($customer->getMiddlename())
    ->setLastname($customer->getLastname())
    ->setPostcode('Test')
    ->setCity('Test')
    ->setTelephone('01234567890')
    ->setFax('01234567890')
    ->setCompany('Test')
    ->setStreet('Kersov')
    ->setIsDefaultBilling('1')
    ->setIsDefaultShipping('1')
    ->setSaveInAddressBook('1');

try {
    $customer->save();
    $address->save();
}
catch (Exception $e) {
    Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('There has been a problem with your registration. ' . $e->getMessage());
}

If I comment out $address->save() it successfully saves the customer (but obviously not the address).

Answer 1

Please try below code. it will work. in your code you have used customer id which still doesn't exit. id will generate after save customer.

$websiteId = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId();
$store = Mage::app()->getStore();

$customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");
$customer   ->setWebsiteId($websiteId)
            ->setStore($store)
            ->setFirstname('John')
            ->setLastname('Doe')
            ->setEmail('[email protected]')
            ->setPassword('somepassword');         
    $customer->save();


$address = Mage::getModel("customer/address");
$address->setCustomerId($customer->getId())
    ->setFirstname($customer->getFirstname())
    ->setMiddleName($customer->getMiddlename())
    ->setLastname($customer->getLastname())
    ->setPostcode('Test')
    ->setCity('Test')
    ->setTelephone('01234567890')
    ->setFax('01234567890')
    ->setCompany('Test')
    ->setStreet('Kersov')
    ->setIsDefaultBilling('1')
    ->setIsDefaultShipping('1')
    ->setSaveInAddressBook('1');    
    $address->save();

Hope this will help.