Question

I am trying to change the Name/username parameter value to “Name” in the mod_login parameters. But for my Joomla installation (Joomla! 1.5.23), only a few parameters are shown (Caching + Encrypt Login Form).

Is there a way to display more parameters in the backend? If not, where can I edit the parameter? Is there an ini file somewhere?

Answer 1

Usually modules parameters are stored in an XML file within the directory with the same name as the module, under the ‘modules’ folder (if admin modules, those are under ‘administrator/’).
In that file are stored the parameters used by a module, which are shown in the module configuration in Back-End.

As for mod_login, those params are not editable, but if you open the mod_login.php file (under administrator/modules/mod_login/) you’ll find the html relative to that form.

<p id="form-login-username">
        <label for="modlgn_username"><?php echo JText::_('Username'); ?></label>
        <input name="username" id="modlgn_username" type="text" class="inputbox" size="15" />
    </p>

    <p id="form-login-password">
        <label for="modlgn_passwd"><?php echo JText::_('Password'); ?></label>
        <input name="passwd" id="modlgn_passwd" type="password" class="inputbox" size="15" />
    </p>

Add a value="(your value here)" and it set.

Alternatively, if you want to do things well done, open the XML file and add

<param name="name_default" type="text" default="Name" label="Default value for username" description="Default value for username" />

And in mod_login.php you call this parameter with

 $default_value = $params->get('name_default');

And just put into the form:

<input name="username" id="modlgn_username" type="text" value="<?php echo $default_value;?>" class="inputbox" size="15" />