[SOLVED] Customize URL in CB Reconfirm

This isn't really a bug, but an issue I've run into. I'm using JFactory and CB API in external code (I've previously posted about this in another thread about the CB Profile Update Logger).

The good news is the CB Reconfirm plugin fires when my staff update the email address through my custom form. However, my staff use a dedicated URL that differs from the site URL that our volunteers use.

Example (not actual URLs): staff.example.org/edit/ is the staff form.

Volunteers use example.org/ to login and edit profiles.

When staff update the email address, CB Reconfirm sends an email, but the confirm link is staff.example.org/edit/profile/pluginclass/cbreconfirmemail?confirmcode=reg123abc789xyz ( example.org/profile/ is the required CB Profile menu item)

The confirm link should only be example.org/profile/pluginclass/cbreconfirmemail?confirmcode=reg123abc789xyz (sans "staff" subdomain and sans "/edit" in the URL).

Is there a way to correct this? Or will I need to edit the CB Reconfirm PHP file and just remember it for if/when it gets updated next?

For the time being, I edited /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbreconfirmemail/cbreconfirmemail.php by adding the line:

Before this line:

And the correct link is now in the email. I know if I update this plugin, this will be lost, so if there's a better permanent solution, that'd be cool.

Just noticed that the email still ends in:

I'm guessing that is added by $cbNotification->sendFromSystem(). Any way to override that?

That site URL is based off your $live_site value in configuration.php. If it's empty then it's based off whatever domain they're viewing your site as. You can hardcode it to whatever you want resulting in all of those URLs always pointing to whatever domain you supply, but it will also affect all URLs output in HTML as well. Aside from that you would need to edit the language string and supply the URL your self with whatever domain you want (you can substitute in the confirm code with [cbactivation]).

$live_site did exactly what I needed. There's no Joomla HTML output to my custom staff URL, so setting $live_site will do fine. Thanks!

I also now trap $_GET and $_GET=='cancel' in my own code before I build JFactory and CB API and redirect it to the proper URL. Another simple solution I didn't think of earlier. JFactory/CB are only part of our larger solution, and the project may double next year.