Question

I’m using the sfGuardDoctrine plugin, and I would like to customize the form validation messages.

How could I acomplish this? I can’t find anything in the documentation.

The only way I have found is to copy sfGuardValidatorUser.class into /apps/frontend/lib/validator, but I would like to know if there is some way to just override the error message, not override the entire validator…

Answer 1

I have found a post about external authentication. There the author creates a custom form that inherits from the original plugin form.

I think it is a clean way to customize everything, including error messages.

Link: http://blog.honnecke.us/2010/01/using-sfdoctrineguardusers-external-authentication/

Basically, we have to add in app.yml the name of our custom form:

sf_guard_plugin_signin_form: sfGuardCustomFormSignin

Then we create the form into the lib/form directory of our app folder:

class sfGuardCustomFormSignin extends sfGuardFormSignin
{
    public function configure(){
        parent::configure();
        // custom code here
    }
}

Done!