[development] Disabling E-mail field in User Account > Edit

[Keve]

The correct form for readonly:

$html_params = array("readonly" => "readonly")

Keve.

Toufeeq Hussain wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to disable the e-mail and user_name filed in the User
>Account Edit page.
>These details will be populated from LDAP so an user should not be
>able to edit them.
>
>I've poked around and found the code which handles this in user.module.
>Now I need to disable this control.
>
><Code>
>$group .= form_textfield(t('E-mail address'), 'mail', $edit['mail'],
>  30, 55, t('Insert a valid e-mail address.  All e-mails from the
>system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made
>public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or
>wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.'),
>NULL, TRUE);
></Code>
>
>looking up documentation for the form_textfield control
>(http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/function/form_textfield) tells me that
>I need to pass HTML attributes to this in the form of an associative
>array.
>
>Now to disable it I need to pass the attribute 'readonly' so I created
>an associative array as such $html_params = array("RO" => "readonly")
>and passed it to form_textfield as such:
>
><Code>
>$group .= form_textfield(t('E-mail address'), 'mail', $edit['mail'],
>  30, 55, t('Insert a valid e-mail address.  All e-mails from the
>system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made
>public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or
>wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.'),
>*$html_params*, TRUE);
></Code>
>
>(The *'s highlight the change)
>
>However this does not seem to be working,E-mail field is still editable.
>What am I missing ?
>
>Please help.
>-Toufeeq
>--
>blog @ http://toufeeq.blogspot.com
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