How can I set a custom URI for the confirmation link of account email update from a front-end form?

Question

I have a front-end form to update user's email address, like this example:

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    {{ csrfInput() }}
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="users/save-user">
    <input type="hidden" name="userId" value="{{ currentUser.id }}">

    <label for="newEmail">New email address</label>
    <input type="email" name="email" value="" id="newEmail">

    <label for="password">Password</label>
    <input type="password" name="password">

    <input type="submit">
</form>

Once the form is submitted, Craft send a system message to the user email address, with a confirmation link. Once this link is clicked, the user is redirected to the root URL of the front-end website.

I changed the activateAccountSuccessPath, but whereas it works during account activation, it doesn't works during account email update.

Example:

'activateAccountSuccessPath' => array(
    'en' => 'my-account',
    'fr' => 'mon-compte'
)

Or:

'activateAccountSuccessPath' => 'my-account'

I also tried to enable / disable the autoLoginAfterAccountActivation setting, but the redirection is still not working. Even is user is already logged in, or if he is logged out.

I also checked the Craft logs, but I there's no error, no missing template, etc. ... nothing.

How can I set a custom URI on this link?

Answer 1

I can't think of a clean way to do this because of this function

public function actionVerifyEmail(): Response
{
    // ..
    // snip 
    // ..
    if (Craft::$app->getUsers()->verifyEmailForUser($userToProcess)) {
        // ..
        // snip
        // ..
        // Redirect to the site/CP root
        $url = UrlHelper::url('');  // <---- this is where we are
        return $this->redirect($url);  // ALWAYS redirect to root page
    }

    return $this->renderTemplate('_special/emailtaken', [
        'email' => $userToProcess->unverifiedEmail
    ]);
}

A clean way to achieve this is:

1. Handle it entirely on your own -> custom controller + custom service, send the mail manually
2. Create a custom route to you'll only take care about activating them and overwrite the actionVerifyEmail - unfortunately you can't replace the controller via Dependency Injection
3. Create a feature request and hope Pixel and Tonic will be kind enough to create a config variable / event to overwrite this value