Adding Email Confirmation field to registration page

[vi_daft]

I've followed many instructions and cannot seem to get it to show up.  

I created a new validation.js in a new directory called js/email/

It consists of:

Validation.addAllThese([  
  
    ['validate-cemail', 'Please make sure your emails match.', function(v) {  
                var conf = $('confirmation') ? $('confirmation') : $$('.validate-cemail')[0];  
                var pass = false;  
  var confirm;  
                if ($('email_address')) {  
                    pass = $('email_address');  
                }  
  confirm =conf.value;  
  if(!confirm && $('email_address2'))  
  {  
  confirm = $('email_address2').value;  
  }  
                return (pass.value == confirm);  
            }],  
]);   

I added the following to customer.xml  (/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/customer.xml)

<reference name="head">  
    <action method="addJs"><script>email/validation.js</script></action>  
</reference>   

(I added it on line 131 under the "New Customer Registration" section)

I added:

<label class="required" for="email_address"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->__('Confirm Email Address') ?></label>  
<div class="input-box"> 
<input class="input-text required-entry validate-cemail" title="<?php echo $this->__('Confirm Email') ?>" id="email_address2" name="confirm_email" type="text">  
</div>  

to /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/register.phtml  directly below the regular email address field.

What am I doing wrong that won't make it show up?

[iweb_p3mbo]

vi_daft,

You may also have to add your form field code to your version of app/design/frontend/base/default/template/persistent/customer/form/register.phtml

Also, you should ensure that you don't actually modify 'base/default' templates since the changes will get lost if you ever upgrade.

Instead you should copy the file into your own theme.

Let us know how it goes.

[vi_daft]

So you're saying I should copy the 

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/persistent/customer/form/register.phtml file

into

app/design/frontend/ultimo/default/template/persistent/customer/form/register.phtml

even though it's not currently in there?  

[iweb_p3mbo]

Hi,

Yes - thats correct. You should never edit anything directly in the 'base' directory. Always copy it into your theme (or edit it if its already in there)

Regards,

Andrew

[vi_daft]

Thank you for this useful tip.  I still can't seem to get the field to appear, however it's good to know this for future reference.