Override components/com_users/models/forms/login.xml - Joomla 2.5?

Question

I\'ve been trying to override the file login.xml but no matter what I try, the edited version in my template folder doesn\'t show up. How can I override this fi

Answer 1

I was able to leverage Griiettner's solution for Joomla 3. I wanted to not allow users to edit their email address in the profile edit screen on the frontend. I only modified it slightly, copy this file:

components/com_users/models/forms/profile.xml

to:

/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_users/profile/forms/profile.xml

Also copy this file:

components/com_users/views/profile/tmpl/edit.php

to:

/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_users/profile/edit.php

And put this code at the top of the edit.php file right after the:

defined('_JEXEC') or die;

I left out the $this->form->reset( true ); // to reset the form xml loaded by the view and only used this:

// JOOMLA 3 if(!defined('DS')) define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); $this->form->loadFile( dirname(__FILE__) . DS . "forms" . DS . "profile.xml");

This allowed me to keep the user profile information populated in the edit form. I then edited the profile.xml file and added:

readonly="true"

to the email1 and email2 fields. This prevents the user from editing.