Is Moderated Registration possible?

[djdrue]

I'm trying to set up a Private Pligg Site, and I'd like to know if there's a way that registration submissions can be approved by admins of the site?

Short of that Is there a quick and dirty way to remove the registration links? I haven't looked at the templates, but I would assume that you could just comment out the registration links.

I'd appreciate any advice or guidance that anyone has. I really am enjoying Pligg, however, if I can't find a way to solve some privacy issues, I'll have to look for another solution (which I'd rather not.)

Thanks.

[jitgos]

Yes you can comment out the registration. That would be one easy way, however if the registration page link is still available to anyone then you would have that issue of someone just going directly to the page.

Another might be to keep the registration page the same but change the <form> to go to your email or something and then you manually input the registration.

Jitgos

[kbeeveer46]

Like Jit said, you can change the registration process to email you the information and then you can make the accounts manually. That's not very pleasing to your users though. They will have to wait to use your site until you register them. Most people think entering codes to prove you are human is too much. I can't really imagine having to wait for my registration to be processed. you'd also have to write some php code to email the user letting them know that their account will be activated in "X" amount of time.

[jitgos]

Yeah I just figured if it private then it's probably a low user count. I guess it depends. I was thinking you're talking about a private community for like an organization or company so waiting on registration wouldn't be a big deal.

If you are talking about some private social networking site where people can only join if they are invited by current members or something it might be more complicated and you'd need a different (probably custom) solution.

Jitgos

[djdrue]

That's correct. this will be a low user count site. and I would have no problems adding the users manually.

What would be the best recommendation to go with?

[jitgos]

It's up to you but I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to set up the form to email you and then you add them manually and then email them that the account has been created. Something like that. And since it's your own form you can make additional inputs if you need to get more information from them. Like city, state or whatever.

My .02
Jitgos

[kbeeveer46]

Jit's suggestion is about the best one for your situtation. Sure, it could be a lot more automated but his suggestion requires the least amount of coding.

[Yankidank]

Originally Posted by jitgos

...if the registration page link is still available to anyone then you would have that issue of someone just going directly to the page.

I'm not 100% sure if this is all that's needed, but a simple way to fix this is to rename register.php (ex. newregister.php) and make some changes in libs/html1.php.

Find:

PHP Code:

$main_smarty->assign('URL_register', getmyurl("register")); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$main_smarty->assign('URL_newregister', getmyurl("newregister")); 


Then you will need to change a line of code in /templates/templatename/register_step_1.tpl and /templates/templatename/register_step_2.tpl

PHP Code:

{$URL_register} 


to

PHP Code:

{$URL_newregister}