If what you want to do is changing the styling of the form, why don’t you just edit the wp-members.css file and customize according to your needs? Of course you should copy it to your theme’s directory to preserve your modifications. This worked for me.
Customizing css is not just the only criteria, as you can see I have changed the html also. class=”btn btn-primary” are twitter bootstrap classes, do u think its okay to write those lengthy classes again in my custom css for wp-members buttons, if I already have bootstrap css included in my theme. Also, if I write them the original wp-members css is conflicting it.
Further, css support the associated html. A element can be styled when it has proper html what needed. For example, in original ‘<font class=”req”>*</font>Required’ html has no div around so I can’t give padding/margin to this, the font tag cannot be used as its obsolete in w3c validation.
Also, I can’t apply float:left, right and additonal <div style=”clear:both”></div> with css. The whole form get disturbed if I really do, as it have no unique id or class on them (2 buttons).
Lastly, this was just an example what I posted above, may be I need to customize more html…. then? The main issue is why wp-members custom filter working for btton string but not working for custom html override as it was documented.
Well, the code you are currently using was intended to change a string and that is the button text, note that you’re using the $string variable. To filter the form content, you must use the $form variable.
From this filter’s docs:
“The registration form is brought in with $form
You can append to it or filter it”
Well, it looks good at first, and thanks for the help. But I even tried with it, to change the variable from $string to $form, it not worked.
However when I thoroughly checked it was really foolish to change the variable, variable argument is just an variable, I can use $form, $string, $xyz, whatever… will ofcourse not work.
If the filter is same i.e., ‘wpmem_register_form’ changing of a variable will not make it work.
Even you can check by print_r($form); or print_r($string); or even print_r($xyz); inside the custom filter function, all will give the full form html.
‘wpmem_register_form’ is made for full form html, and that I am using already, what we change in it depend on us.
Hope we get real answer soon. 🙂
Looking back at my answer I now realize how foolish it was. I have no idea what I was thinking :/
Sometimes it can be difficult to track down a specific string within a string when you are filtering larger blocks of html. Rather than try to match the line breaks and tabs/indents, for filtering a larger string, I find it is often easier to remove the line breaks and such first.
Using something like this as a pre-filter works well:
str_replace( "\n", "", $string );
Or a little more fancy for newlines, tabs, and extra spaces:
/**
* replace new line, tab, and double space
* with no space, single space, and single space
*/
$old = array( "\n", "\t", " " );
$new = array( "", " ", " " );
str_replace( $old, $new, $string );
Thanks Chad, for a nice effort and help. Yes I was also thinking its the matter of tabs, newline and spaces.
But I tried to addup you str_replace before actual replacement, and then echoed and copied the new string via browser source. Made it as a source again to replace with the required final string I want. It not worked upto this with single replacement, but I made some more modifications for an hour and finally got what made it work !!!
Here how I put it…
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add_filter( 'wpmem_register_form', 'my_submit_button_filter' );
function my_submit_button_filter( $string ) {
// the html of the form is the parameter $string
// use str_replace like:
// $new_string = str_replace( $needle, $replacement, $haystack );
//$string = str_replace( 'Submit', 'Register', $string );
/**
* replace new line, tab, and double space
* with no space, single space, and single space
*/
$old = array( "\n", "\t", " " );
$new = array( "", " ", " " );
$string = str_replace( $old, $new, $string );
$string = str_replace( $old, $new, $string ); // Intentionally done two times, as continuous tabs and double space converted to single space will cause a double space, which removed through it.
//echo $string; // Echo and copy needle html from browser source to paste below
/* Below needle string is exact copy of browser source, don't edit it otherwise no match and not work */
$needle = '<div class="button_div">
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="Clear Form" class="buttons" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" class="buttons" />
</div><font class="req">*</font>Required field';
$needle = str_replace( $old, $new, $needle ); // needle is also processed for new line, tab, and double space
$replacement = '<div class="button_div">
<input type="reset" class="btn" value="Clear Form" name="reset" style="float:right;">
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Register" name="submit" style="float:left;">
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
<div class="reqnote"><font class="req">*</font>Required field</div>';
$string = str_replace( $needle, $replacement, $string );
return $string;
}
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I found this trick as an excellent solution to do such string replacements in different places.
I hope other user will find it great wandering for the solution but scratching their heads.. 🙂
I wish you please try it at your end (may be you write shorter code without multiple replacements), and also put in this your wp-member filter documentation so other users may get help!!
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Thanks Chad!
Shashank
