Unable to change the field titles for Password fields on the user_profile_form.

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I'm trying to do the same.

To override the properties of the pass1 and pass2, you need to add an additional #process handler that runs after FAPI's expand_password_confirm, like so:

function yourmodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  switch ($form_id) {
    case 'user_profile_form':
      // Here we need to provide an extra #process handler to allow us to modify
      // the password element that FAPI expands.
      $form['account']['pass']['#process'] = array('expand_password_confirm', 'yourmodule_password_confirm');
      break;
  }
}

/**
 * Implementation of expand_password_confirm.
 */
function yourmodule_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1']['#title'] = t("New Password");
  $element['pass2']['#title'] = t("Confirm New Password");
  return $element;
}

Credit to boaz's blog post for pointing me in the right direction on this.

Awesome! This was just what I needed... helps me understand the element processing/expansion too :)
Thanks chrisyates and boaz.

Hi.

I had this problem also.

I suggest a text change on the password field, because as soon as use form_process_password_confirm you get two password fields and I only see this in places where you want to set a new Password. So why not changing the titles so they say that?

The other advantage would be that you could use the translation feature for the title. In the moment you cannot because you would also overwrite the string in the Login Form also.

Referring to http://api.drupal.org/api/function/form_process_password_confirm/7 we have this in D7:
(D6 is similar, just the function name changed: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/expand_password_confirm/6)

includes/form.inc, line 2146

function form_process_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'password',
    '#title' => t('Password'),
    '#value' => empty($element['#value']) ? NULL : $element['#value']['pass1'],
    '#required' => $element['#required'],
    '#attributes' => array('class' => array('password-field')),
  );
  $element['pass2'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'password',
    '#title' => t('Confirm password'),
    '#value' => empty($element['#value']) ? NULL : $element['#value']['pass2'],
    '#required' => $element['#required'],
    '#attributes' => array('class' => array('password-confirm')),
  );
  $element['#element_validate'] = array('password_confirm_validate');
  $element['#tree'] = TRUE;

  if (isset($element['#size'])) {
    $element['pass1']['#size'] = $element['pass2']['#size'] = $element['#size'];
  }

  return $element;
}

which could be changed to this:

function form_process_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'password',
    '#title' => t('New Password'),
    '#value' => empty($element['#value']) ? NULL : $element['#value']['pass1'],
    '#required' => $element['#required'],
    '#attributes' => array('class' => array('password-field')),
  );
  $element['pass2'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'password',
    '#title' => t('Confirm new password'),
    '#value' => empty($element['#value']) ? NULL : $element['#value']['pass2'],
    '#required' => $element['#required'],
    '#attributes' => array('class' => array('password-confirm')),
  );
  $element['#element_validate'] = array('password_confirm_validate');
  $element['#tree'] = TRUE;

  if (isset($element['#size'])) {
    $element['pass1']['#size'] = $element['pass2']['#size'] = $element['#size'];
  }

  return $element;
}

The changes are just the title fields. I did not make a patch out of this now because I may be overseeing some use cases where this makes no sense. Can someone point there or has any other arguments why the text cannot change?

Thx
JThan

Hi,

I had the same problem and my solution is similar:

function YOURMODULE_form_user_profile_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  $form['account']['pass']['#process'] = array(
    'form_process_password_confirm',
    'YOURMODULE_form_process_password_confirm',
    'user_form_process_password_confirm'
  );
}

function YOURMODULE_form_process_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1']['#title'] = t('New password');
  $element['pass2']['#title'] = t('Confirm new password');
  return $element;
}

This worked for me:

/**
 * @file
 * Allows modification of password fields in FAPI
 */
 function register_alter_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
   switch ($form_id) {
     case 'user_register_form':
       // Here we need to provide an extra #process handler to allow us to modify
       // the password element that FAPI expands.
       $form['account']['pass']['#process'] = array('form_process_password_confirm', 'register_alter_password_confirm');
       break;
   }
 }

 /**
 * Implementation of expand_password_confirm.
 */
 function register_alter_password_confirm($element) {
   $element['pass1']['#title'] = t("Password");
   $element['pass2']['#title'] = t("Repeat password");
   return $element;
 }

Yes, this works for D7

D6 uses: expand_password_confirm();
D7 uses: form_process_password_confirm();

They basically do the same thing, the function has just been renamed in D7.

function mymodulename_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
    if ($form_id =='form_id'){
	 $form['user']['profile_text_feild_name']['#title']=t('your custom title');
       } 
}

chanderbhushan you were missing a ' in the conditional statement

function mymodulename_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id =='form_id') {
    $form['user']['profile_text_feild_name']['#title'] = t('your custom title');
  } 
}

If you want the default password strength meter in D7, you need to include 'user_form_process_password_confirm' too.

Since these default functions are defined as the default '#process' arguments in system_element_info() for a password_confirm element, you can't just append the additional function to the end of the array, as '#process' we see is usually empty.

To be safe (in case Drupal adds new default process functions, and to allow other modules to add process functions before we get here) we need something like:

function YOURMODULE_HOOK_FORM_ALTER(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  // Get default process function array:
  $element_info = element_info('password_confirm');
  $process = $element_info['#process'];
  // Add our process function to the array:
  $process[] = 'YOURMODULE_process_password_confirm';
  $form['FIELDNAME']['#process'] = $process;
}

function YOURMODULE_process_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1']['#title'] = t('New password');
  $element['pass2']['#title'] = t('Confirm new password');
  return $element;
}

This worked for me.

kyberman (#6): congrats, man.
I just added my custom process function at the end of process functions array (build in core file system.module) and it failed. It didn't occur to me that user_form_process_password_confirm needed to be in last position.

Thanks.

Worked for me with a small change. My form array structure -

$form['account']['password']['pass']['#process'] = array('form_process_password_confirm', 'my_module_form_process_password_confirm','user_form_process_password_confirm');

Thanks!

For Drupal 8, I did this :

//in form_alter
$form['#after_build'][] = 'my_module_after_build';

function my_module_after_build($form, &$form_state) {
    $form['account']['pass']['pass1']['#title'] = t('New password');
    return $form;
}

Extending @Keenegan's suggestion, if anyone is looking for a full code for Drupal 8. Include the following in your custom module:

function my_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  switch ($form_id) {
    case 'user_form':
      $form['#after_build'][] = 'my_module_after_build';
      break;
  }
}

function my_module_after_build($form, &$form_state) {
    $form['account']['pass']['pass1']['#title'] = t('New password');
    return $form;
}

@Keenegan and @DashDesai
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm!

Was looking through this as well and found (I think) a better solution. For Drupal 8, not sure about D7.

/**
 * Implements hook_element_info_alter().
 */
function module_element_info_alter(array &$types) {
  if (isset($types['password_confirm'])) {
    $types['password_confirm']['#process'][] = 'module_form_process_password_confirm';
  }
}

/**
 * Process the password_confirm element.
 */
function module_form_process_password_confirm($element) {
  $element['pass1']['#title'] = t('Password');
  $element['pass2']['#title'] = t('Confirm password');

  return $element;
}

This essentially alters the whole password_confirm element which is used on forms. If you use the form alter approach you would need to think of every form where this might occur. With this approach, if the form is using the password_confirm element, you are already taken care of.

@jzavrl

Your solution worked for me in Drupal 8. Thank you!

@Kng #18 - This worked fine for drupal 8 registration form alter password field

@jzavrl

Works for me as well in Drupal 8. Thanks!