[ic] Change error messages for userdb functions
Ron Phipps
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Sep 27 21:43:00 2002
> From: Grant
>
>
> >I should have been more clear, I'm looking for a solution that does
not
> >involve hacking on the core. We prefer to use built in methods
unless
> >absolutely necessary. If there is not a built in method, perhaps
> >Locale?, then I will probably do some matching on the error messages
> >before they are displayed and replace them with the ones we'd like to
> >see.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >-Ron
>
> I asked that question once and here's the answer I got:
>
> "
>
> For things like login and new account creation errors, You
> should be able to make a locale entry for the message you want to
change
> in
> the locale database, and then put the "new" message string in the
column
> for your current locale, i.e. (locale.txt, formatted for readability):
>
> code en_US de_DE
> fr_FR
> Username already exists Username unavailable
>
> should cause the standard message for attempting to create a new
account
> with an existing username to be replaced with the alternate one.
>
> For order submission and accout info errors, you can specify the
message
> to
> be displayed right in the order or account profile
(etc/profiles.order),
> the format is
>
> varname=check error message.
>
> for example:
>
> fname=required We need your first name!
>
> "
>
> - Grant
I guess Locale is the answer. Thanks a lot Grant for the reference!
-Ron