Placeholders in Registation

Hi i am using gk register module and i am searching for this php lines in order to put placeholders

<input type="text" name="jform[name]" id="jform_name" value="" class="required invalid" size="30" aria-required="true" required="required" aria-invalid="true">

Can you please tell me where to find them ?
Thank you

Those lines are not hard coded, they are generated on the fly from registration.xml.
Located here: components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml

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Thank you for the reply
do you know hot to put placeholder in xml file?

i try this but not work

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<field name="name" type="text"
         description="COM_USERS_REGISTER_NAME_DESC"
         filter="string"
         label="COM_USERS_REGISTER_NAME_LABEL"
         message="COM_USERS_REGISTER_NAME_MESSAGE"
         required="true"
         size="30"
         [color=#FF0000]placeholder="Name"[/color]
      />


Why is that not working?
Thank you

What you write below is a request to joomla to process that for you. There is no such field parameter called "placeholder" so obviously there is no output.

Actual core code is inside below location. This is only valid for text type field. If you need "placeholder" for other fields you would have to edit them as well similar to my example below. See Fields folder for other field types.

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/libraries/joomla/form/fields/text.php


We need to add "placeholder" in to these templates so if there is request from xml file joomla will process it.
So find below line.

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$disabled = ((string) $this->element['disabled'] == 'true') ? ' disabled="disabled"' : '';


Add our code after it which is below

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$placeholder = $this->element['placeholder'] ? ' placeholder="' . $this->element['placeholder'] . '"' : '';


Find following code

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      return '<input type="text" name="' . $this->name . '" id="' . $this->id . '"' . ' value="'
         . htmlspecialchars($this->value, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') . '"' . $class . $size . $disabled . $readonly . $onchange . $maxLength . '/>';


We now add $placeholder in to the mix so it gets processed. Replace above with below code or simply add $placeholder.

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      return '<input type="text" name="' . $this->name . '" id="' . $this->id . '"' . ' value="'
         . htmlspecialchars($this->value, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') . '"' . $class . $size . $disabled . $placeholder . $readonly . $onchange . $maxLength . '/>';


So now joomla will process your request. See below template when adding fields. Remove information lines so it doesn't cause errors.

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      <field name="myfieldname" type="text" // Fieldname must be unique name.
         class="validate-username" // optional for css class if you want to use
         description="COM_USERS_DESIRED_USERNAME" // You can enter a language string or simply write your own lines inside quotes.
         label="COM_USERS_REGISTER_USERNAME_LABEL" // what is shown on display. Use language string or write your own lines inside quotes.
         message="COM_USERS_REGISTER_USERNAME_MESSAGE"
         required="true" // required or not field true / false
         size="30" // size of field box
         placeholder="Name"

      />


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Any help here please?

Already posted the solution, what you need help with ?

I am sorry i didnt see your answer,i will check it,
Thank you very much

Thank you so much ,
it works perfect

No problem at all, just make sure to note this somewhere in case you update joomla as you will loose changes.

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