RE: [PHP] confirmation email script/code
| From: | Jim Moseby | Date: | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:56:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] confirmation email script/code | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> has anybody come across a really good 'open source' chunk of code for
> sending/recieving confirmation emails from an app... i'd like
> to allow the
> user to register, and send them an email that they then have
> to hit the link
> to complete the process..
It is strightforward to write this yourself. In my simple example, I
generate a 32 byte random ID when the user registers and save it along with
his data in the DB. Then, I send him an email with a link like this:
www.example.com/register.php?id=7H7dh869ha320J6GhAs89L0lJ00j09df?action=conf
irm
When he clicks the link, I flip a flag in his DB record that he has
confirmed.
I have cron periodically go and clean up unconfirmed records that have timed
out.
JM