By jetsetter on

Hey there,

When new users sign up, they get a message, "ignorming alias user." The registration is successful, but the message is strange and confusing to them. Anyone know why this is being outputted, and how to get rid of it?

Thanks

js

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jetsetter commented

Any ideas on this? (The message is "Ignoring alias user"

Since this message appears in a green box above

I looked in user.module near:

drupal_set_message(t('Your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address.'));

But the string wasn't anywhere near here, or even in the file that I could find. I also searched the mysql database for the string and couldn't find it.

Ay help would be much appreciated.

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shane birley commented

Comes from the pathauto.module and I don't think you can get rid of it. Normally, when a message is hard coded into a module, it is there for a reason and removing it from the module is not recommended.

I would see if the verbose setting is checked in the pathauto.module

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jetsetter’s picture

jetsetter commented

Thanks for the pointer. This is strange. It looks like this is meant to curb people from trying to create usernames like user, blog and admin. The problem is that this seems to be triggering even when they create regular usernames like "tonyz" etc.

Strange. I know it probably isn't advisable but I'm going to have to comment this out because it is scaring off some users.

Thanks again.

js

function _pathauto_set_alias($src, $dst, $pid = NULL, $verbose = FALSE, $oldalias = NULL) {
  // Special case - don't let them screw themselves by creating
  // certain aliases
  switch ($dst) {
    case 'user':
    case 'blog':
    case 'admin':
      drupal_set_message("Ignoring alias $dst");
      return;
    default:
      break;
  }