how to rename password label on user edit page in Drupal?

Question

I would like to change labels only on user edit page. String overrides module would not work because it would rename all labels (user register and user edit). I tried the following:

function theme_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) {
  if ($vars['template_files'][2] == 'page-user-edit') {
    $vars['content'] = str_replace('Password', 'New Password', $vars['content']);
    $vars['content'] = str_replace('Confirm password', 'Confirm new password', $vars['content']);
  }
}

Answer 1

If you're willing to do it in a module (you mentioned String Overrides module) you can easily do it with a simple hook_form_alter() in a small custom module.

function mymodule_form_user_edit_form_alter($form, &$form_state) {
  $form['desired_element']['#label'] = t('My label');
  return $form;
}

This method uses hook_form_FORM_ID_alter(). This way you'll be able to set individual labels as you see fit, though.

Answer 2

The password inputs are in fact a separate form element (password_confirm -- Form API reference) and although it is themable (see theme_password_confirm), all you can influence is the description, prefix/postfix and element title.

The real work happens in expand_password_confirm, which in turn is a process function specified in system_elements. The latter is an implementation of hook_elements and it lets Drupal know how to handle various form elements.

Luckily, one can use hook_elements() to specify custom form elements and that is the one you can use to override the system processing for the password_confirm element.

A sample implementation follows:

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_elements()
 * @see http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--hooks--core.php/function/hook_elements/6
 */
function mymodule_elements() {
  $type['password_confirm']['#process'][] = 'mymodule_process_password_confirm';
  return $type;
}

/**
 * Do a bit of processing for the password_confirm element.
 * Original processing happens in expand_password_confirm()
 */
function mymodule_process_password_confirm($element) {
  // check if we the parent element is 'account'. On the user edit page, that is the case
  // Of course, one could use arg() to check the path too
  if ($element['#array_parents'][0] == 'account') {
    $element['pass1']['#title'] = 'New password';
    $element['pass2']['#title'] = 'Confirm new password';
  }

  return $element;
}

Please note this is based on Drupal 6. In Drupal 7, hook_elements() became hook_element_info because there is a proper alter hook, hook_element_info_alter

Answer 3

Put the below code in your theme folder's template.php file. Just double check that your template.php already has an existing YOURTHEMENAME_preprocess_page(&$vars) function, in that case, only add what is inside the function below.

function YOURTHEMENAME_form_user_profile_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){

 $form['account']['current_pass']['#title'] = 'New Label';

}

function YOURTHEMENAME_preprocess_page(&$vars){

$vars['page']['content']['system_main']['account']['pass']['pass1']['#title'] = 'Some New Label for Confirm Password'; 

$vars['page']['content']['system_main']['account']['pass']['pass2']['#title'] = 'Some Other  Label Confirm Password';
}

Answer 4

This is a solution for Drupal 6, based on theme_password_confirm:

function MYTHEME_password_confirm($element) {
  foreach (array('pass1', 'pass2') as $part) {
    $element[$part]['#attributes']['placeholder'] = $element[$part]['#title']; // Set the title text as placeholder
    unset($element[$part]['#title']); // Remove the title.
  }
  $element['#children'] = ''; // #children holds the html output
  foreach (element_children($element) as $key) {
    unset($element[$key]['#printed']); // Prepare to re-render.
    $element['#children'] .= drupal_render($element[$key]);
  }
  return theme('form_element', $element, $element['#children']);
}

Answer 5

Working solution for Drupal 7:

function MYMODULE_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
    if($form_id == 'user_profile_form'){
      // Here we need to provide an extra #process handler to allow us to modify
      // the password element that FAPI expands.
      $element_info = element_info('password_confirm');
      $process = $element_info['#process'];
      $process[] = 'MYMODULE_process_password_confirm';
      $form['account']['pass']['#process'] =  $process;
    }
}
  function MYMODULE_process_password_confirm($element) {
    $element['pass1']['#title'] = t("New Password");
    $element['pass2']['#title'] = t("Confirm New Password");
    return $element;
  }

Answer 6

Try this one, hope it will work.

function your_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {

  if($form_id == 'user_register_form') {

   $form['account']['pass']['#process'] = array('form_process_password_confirm',  'register_alter_password_confirm');

}


function register_alter_password_confirm($element) {

   $element['pass1']['#title'] = t("Password:");

   $element['pass2']['#title'] = t("Confirm Password:");

   return $element;

}