Joomla Registration Form Validation

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:04 am

Hello all,
I would like to know how I can set a rule for each field in the standard joomla registration form, without any core hacks please? I currently cannot see any error messages when I type invalid data, is this supposed to be like this or am I missing something?
Thanks.

zemadeiran · Post by **zemadeiran** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:45 am

You need to make sure the you have the message include in your sites template.

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:48 pm

Hi, is there any documentation where I can find the exact code needed, do you know?
Thanks.

Webdongle · Post by **Webdongle** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:52 pm

http://docs.joomla.org/Understanding_Output_Overrides

This element should only appear once in the <body> element of the Template to render system and error messages that occurred in the request.

CSS styles for system messages can be found in templates\system\css\system.css

http://docs.joomla.org/Jdoc_statements

zemadeiran · Post by **zemadeiran** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:05 am

webdongle, I think we covered the system message include a while back in another post did we not?

Anyhoo, your thoughts on sticking it in an override as opposed to just the index.php?

I love overrides...

I will publicly admit with my head held low that I am still confused in regards to template styles in 1.6/1.7

I cannot for the life of me find anything in the documentation in relation to the use of template styles!

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:17 pm

Hi, thanks for the links..
It turns out I already have the "<jdoc:include type="message" />" line in my template folder. There are no error messages though. for example, I have a blank registration form, I click the register button but no messages come up etc. Even when typing passwords that do not match, or even an invalid email, I get nothing just the registration form as it is

?

Webdongle · Post by **Webdongle** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:55 pm

Try it with a standard Template ?

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:55 pm

Yes thats a great suggestion. It turns out the template I'm using didn't have any css to specify what happens when there is an error in the form. Thank you.

Regarding the validation rule. This is still quite unclear for me. I would like to keep all the rules the same, except for the name field. I would also like to maybe add some text to the registration form page?

Webdongle · Post by **Webdongle** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:09 pm

thecar wrote:... I would also like to maybe add some text to the registration form page?

You can do that in the menu item edit or for login module in the module edit screen.

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:38 pm

I couldn't see anything about the Registration page, only the Login form there..
Would you konw how to change the validation of one field in the Registration field also?
Thanks.

Webdongle · Post by **Webdongle** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:52 pm

Then an override is the answer http://docs.joomla.org/Understanding_Output_Overrides

thecar · Post by **thecar** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:14 am

Okay I got round to understanding it, and its a great feature! Thanks for the link... Would you know how I would specify a validation for the name field? I basically want to check if the user has entered more than one name (eg first and last name), if only one name, then do not validate?

Webdongle · Post by **Webdongle** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:35 am

http://myphpform.com/validating-forms.php

Not sure if the variables would be defined in the default.php file or if they would be defined in another file ? Perhaps /components/com_users/views/registration/view.html.php ?

Methinks also that sql injection may need to be taken into account when altering input fields in forms ?

When you get it working, perhaps a post in the security forum to check your code is safe ?

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