Re: registration form with activation code sent to user

Documented research indicate that on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:20:31 +0100 (BST), babu wrote: > Ya joseph u r right, i am thinking of the url to be generated to be send to the user. > I followed u r steps but did not understand some points. > >>>2.) Store that string to the database somewhere > where to store in database, i mean when the user clicks the activation code how to > check the users identity.? I actually made this exact functionality for one of my projects a few weeks ago. I made a seperate table simply called 'confirm', that contains the userID for the user in question, the confirmationcode to match, and the expiration time for this confirmationcode, plus an auto-incremented index column. In the users table I then simply have a boolean field called 'confirmed', that's set to 0 (false) by default. When a user's email address have been confirmed, this field is changed to 1 (true). The only reason I have expiration time in this table is for cleanup purposes. >>>3.) Email the mail to the address specified with the url to the confirm page > one must send the email manually or is there any automatic generator for email sending to > users.? Read up on the mail() function. It's actually pretty simple. All you have to do is send an email, with some proper explanatory text, with a link to your confirm.php script (or what you choose to call it), either with a direct link with a get statement including the confirmation code, or with a link to the confirmation script, and then the confirmation code and instructions on how to enter it. Or at best: offer both options. Then simply have your user registration/signup code send the email whenever a user registers. >>>this will confirm that they did in fact check thier email. > how exactly, can explain little bit.? Make the code generate a unique confirmation code (this is pretty simple), and then just have your confirmation script compare the confirmation code with the one in the database. If there's a match then the user to whom you sent that particular code is confirmed. All of the code needed to do this is actually fairly simple to write. Rene