Custom error or validation messages for webforms

Posted by maximer on February 4, 2013 at 10:35am

Hi,

after searching a few hours, I didn't find a concrete solution to my problem:
How can I change the messages after submitting a form (like Email is required). Can I do this through the theme layer, in the template.php file?

Thanks for your feedback
Maxime

Comments

By default Drupal will use

Posted by blacklabel_tom on February 4, 2013 at 12:40pm

By default Drupal will use the name of the field so for an email field it will say 'Email field is required'.

To change this I would use hook_form_alter to change the validation function so that you can display your own validation errors.

If you aren't familiar with hook_form_alter or the form api I would recommend installing the examples module and having a look at the form examples there.

http://api.drupal.org/hook_form_alter
http://drupal.org/project/examples

Cheers

Tom

Bristol based Drupal web design
BlackLabel Web Design