Custom error messages when register

[leoglobant]

Hello.

I was wondering if you could guide me on this.

I need to know how can I show a custom error message when the user is registering. As I need to check the user existence in other system before registering, and that system is going to provide me an error message, I need to show that error as if it was from vBulletin (wrong username, wrong email and that sort of thing)

Where should I look at?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[kh99]

For the username, you could create a plugin using hook location register_addmember_process and code something like this:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['username'] is taken)
{
    $userdata->error('usernametaken', htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->GPC['username']), $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']);
}

and you can probably do something similar for email or other fields.

Also, the username is checked on the registration form page via a call to ajax.php, so you could create another plugin using hook ajax_start and code similar to the section that starts with

if ($_POST['do'] == 'verifyusername')
{

[leoglobant]

Thanks kh99.

Is there a way to disable the ajax user check?

Regards.

[kh99]

Yes, edit the register template and search for vbulletin_ajax_nameverif.js. That should make it easy to find the block of code below and add the <vb:comment>...</vb:comment> tags around it:

<vb:comment>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_ajax_nameverif.js?v={vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
		regname_verif = new vB_AJAX_NameVerify('regname_verif', 'regusername');
	//-->
	</script>
</vb:comment>

[leoglobant]

Thanks a lot!
Regards.

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The last one about registration

How can I get the password without md5 applied? I see the $vbulletin->GPC['password'] but that is with md5 like $vbulletin->GPC['password_md5'].

Thanks in advance!

[kh99]

You should be able to define DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING, like:

define('DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING', true);

You could try putting it in a plugin, maybe using init_start. Or you could edit register.php and put it at the top.

[leoglobant]

I define that constant but I can get the password without md5 applied neither on the login nor registration. Maybe I'm using the wrong variable to get the clean password, I use the $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_password'] variable in login and $vbulletin->GPC['password'] on registration.

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I found out that the:

define('DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING', true);

should be in the config.php file.

Thanks a lot for your help kh99!

[kh99]

Ah, config.php - that's brilliant. I'm so used to thinking about how to do things without editing files that that never would have occurred to me.

[induslady]

Hello kh99,

I have a similar requirement where in I want to customize the phrase - "usernametaken".

1)For an already existing user name the error should be -
That username is already in use. If you are {1} and you have forgotten your password, click <a href="login.php?{2}do=lostpw">here</a>.

2)For special characters and space the error should be -
That username does not meet the administrator's standards.

Any idea how I do it? Have also raised it here -
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=304430

Thanks in advance.