User Verification Link / Message

Question

I have set user registration to 'Admin' on one of my client websites. There are a number of people responsible for verifying users and clicking the activation approval link.

The activation works fine and is in the following format;

http://www.example.com/component/rsform/form/4-user-registration?task=plugin&action=user.activate&token=959da6ce849ef5a2cf000818a9407062

However they have mentioned that if they try to click the link after somebody else has already verified the user they receive:

Error 403 - verification code not found

This means that the user has already been verified by another employee.

This is totally normal and what's supposed to happen I understand.

My question - is there a way of changing this error and displaying something like 'This user has already been verified on xx-xx-xxxx' Or something similar.

Joomla 3.3

Using RSForms Pro extension for user registration form.

Update

I asked RSForms if it's an issue with their plugin and this is their response;

This is not something that is controlled from the component, but a default Joomla! functionality/error message. In order to change this message you will most likely need to edit the default Joomla! code, unfortunately this exceeds the range of our support policy.

So I would need to edit core code?

Answer 1

To only change the message, you only have to:

• Visit Extensions / Language Manager / Overrides
• New
• Language Constant: COM_USERS_ACTIVATION_TOKEN_NOT_FOUND
• Text: This user has already been verified

To add the date of previous activation, it's not directly possible, since it's processed by a com_users controller and an associated model. In the case of the error, the controller just shows the label, registration.php, line 51:

    // Check for a valid user id.
    if (!$userId) {
        $this->setError(JText::_('COM_USERS_ACTIVATION_TOKEN_NOT_FOUND'));
        return false;
    }