Here's a bit of code you might add that does two things:

First, changes the titles of the login, password recovery, and registration pages from the generic "User Account" to more meaningful titles.

Supports custom login pages by doing the following:

- Adds a template suggestion that allows a page-login.tpl.php file located in a theme to supply a custom login page. E.g. no navbar or other info you don't want to expose to anonymous folks, specific support info, etc.

- Adds a $login_section variable to the template variables to make it easy to have section level customized text. This has three values: login, recovery, and register.

/**
 * Implementation of hook_preprocess_page()
 * 
 * Make template suggestion and changes titles on various pages. 
 * 
 * @param $variables
 * @return unknown_type
 */
function secure_site_preprocess_page( &$variables ) {
  global $user;
//  log_debug("Preprocess page called with arg0=" . arg(0) . " arg1=" . arg(1) . 
//          " arg2=" . arg(2) . " uid=" . $user->uid );  

  if ( ! $user->uid && arg(0) == 'user' && 
       (! arg(1) || arg(1) == 'password' || arg(1) == 'register')) {
    
    $variables['template_files'][] = "page-login";
    switch ( arg(1) ) {
      case 'password':
        $variables['title'] = t("Password Recovery");
        $variables['login_section'] = "recovery";
        break;
      case 'register':
        $variables['title'] = t("User Registration");
        $variables['login_section'] = "register";
        break;
      default:
        $variables['title'] = t("User Login");
        $variables['login_section'] = "login";
    }
  }
}

Quick and dirty sample page-login.tpl.php based on garland's page.tpl.php.

<?php
/**
 * All the normal template vars + $login_section available.
 * 
 * $login_section = ( 'login' || 'recovery' || 'register' )
 * $content will have the form related to the section.
 */
?>
<html>
<head>
  <?php print $head; ?>
  <title><?php print $head_title; ?></title>
  <?php print $styles; ?>
  <?php print $scripts; ?>
  <script type="text/javascript"><?php /* Needed to avoid Flash of Unstyled Content in IE */ ?> </script>
</head>
<body class="<?php print $body_classes; ?>">
  <div id="page" class="login-page">
    <div id="header">
      <div id="logo-title">

        <?php if (!empty($logo)): ?>
          <a href="<?php print $front_page; ?>" title="<?php print t('Home'); ?>" rel="home" id="logo">
            <img src="<?php print $logo; ?>" alt="<?php print t('Home'); ?>" />
          </a>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <div id="name-and-slogan">
          <?php if (!empty($site_name)): ?>
            <h1 id="site-name">
              <a href="<?php print $front_page ?>" title="<?php print t('Home'); ?>" rel="home"><span><?php print $site_name; ?></span></a>
            </h1>
          <?php endif; ?>

          <?php if (!empty($site_slogan)): ?>
            <div id="site-slogan"><?php print $site_slogan; ?></div>
          <?php endif; ?>
        </div> <!-- /name-and-slogan -->
      </div> <!-- /logo-title -->

      <?php if (!empty($header)): ?>
        <div id="header-region">
          <?php print $header; ?>
        </div>
      <?php endif; ?>

    </div> <!-- /header -->

    <div id="container" class="clear-block">
      <div id="main" class="column"><div id="main-squeeze">
          <div id="content-content" class="clear-block">
            
            <?php if  ( $login_section == 'login' ) : ?>
            <div class='login-info'>Welcome! Please enter your user id and password below</div>

            <?php elseif  ( $login_section == 'recovery' ) : ?>
            <div class='login-info'>Please enter the e-mail address of your account.</div>

            <?php else: ?>
            <div class='login-info'>Please fill out the form below to start the registration process.</div>

            <?php endif; ?>
            
            <div id="login-form">
            <?php print $content; ?>
            </div>
          </div> <!-- /content-content -->
          <?php print $feed_icons; ?>
        </div> <!-- /content -->

      </div></div> <!-- /main-squeeze /main -->

    </div> <!-- /container -->

    <div id="footer-wrapper">
      <div id="footer">
        <?php print $footer_message; ?>
        <?php if (!empty($footer)): print $footer; endif; ?>
      </div> <!-- /footer -->
    </div> <!-- /footer-wrapper -->

    <?php print $closure; ?>

  </div> <!-- /page -->
   
 </div>
</body>
</html>

Comments

bobooon’s picture

bobooon commented
Assigned: Unassigned » bobooon

I like this. In addition to the template suggestion I will add the ability to toggle that functionality on and off. Some may want the full theme to show on there login/register/recovery pages. I'll include a very simple page-login.tpl.php with the module as well.

bobooon’s picture

bobooon commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Drupal 6 EOL is February 26, 2016. For that reason, Drupal 6.x version of this module is no longer supported.