Re: E-mail Confirmation script?

Thanks, Now why didn't that ever occur to me? It's simple and very effective. Thanks for the idea! Regards, Andre On Sunday 12 May 2002 04:51 pm, you wrote: > I would suggest just sending them an email with a > link like this and telling them to click on it to > confirm their membership. > > http://www.mysite.com/confirm.php?uniqueid=2i3k238 > s9sd0s99d > > The confirm.php page would look up the uniqueid > and try to find it in your database. If it's > there then that means the email address they gave > you exists and they have access to that email > account cuz they know that uniqueid. > > After confirming, you could send a "welcome user" > email and include another link that they can use > for all other account management like > unsubscribing, changing password, changing > personal info ... > > http://www.mysite.com/account.php > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:aajdubuc@webhart.net] > Sent: May 12, 2002 4:36 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] E-mail Confirmation script? > > > I've looked about for an 'Email Confirmation' > script that many sites use for > verifcation of wannabee new members. That is, the > person subscribes, is sent > a 'confirmation' number to which they must have in > the 'Subject' area of > their reply. > > I would like to implement this on my site, but I > haven't discovered a source > for a script, or how to go about doing it. That > is, how do you retrieve items > from an incoming e-mail, and is it possible to > parse the same? > > If anyone who has seen such a script could point > me to where I could find > one, I would greatly appreciate it, or in the > Manual, what it would be listed > under. The 'mail()' function doesn't seem to > include how to access received > e-mails, and to parse individual copmponents of a > message. > > Btw, does anyone know what's up with the 'Search' > function of the PHP-general > lst? It always seems to be 'offline'. Rather hard > to search the archives for > previously asked questions. > > Tia, > Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember in your prayers the Holy Souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly in His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet: http://www.webhart.net/csrb/