Single step registration + Confirmation e-mail v0.1

[dollars5]

Single step registration + Confirmation e-mail v0.3

Created by: Vinoth Kannan
Created on: 2007/02/28

Description
It Makes user registration in single step and confirmation email: allows user to validate his e-mail address by confirming a link sent.

Download: http://www.pligg.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1173771044

Screenshot:


Steps:
step-1: Upload & replace the validation.php and register.php to Pligg root directory
step-2: Upload & replace the login.php to /libs/login.php
step-3: upload & replace the register_step_1.tpl to template/templatename/register_step_1.tpl
step-4: Modify the validation.php with proper database settings

Revision History
v0.3 2007/03/13 Dollars5 - Bug fix to use table_users for pligg user table
v0.2 2007/03/05 Dollars5 - Updated to automatically pick Site url, Greeting message and site email for from address.
v0.1 2007/02/28 Dollars5 - First version


We are open for your feedback and improvements - if you can improve it further - please do it and make sure you share it here.

[dollars5]

Added a screenshot.

Note to all users who have doubts in confirmation e-mail: user will receive an e-mail containing an link which he need to click to get activated.

This is done by creating an user with last-login time as 0, when an user tries to login - we check for his last-login time and if not zero allow him to login, else we block him from login. Once user clicks on the link in e-mail - the last-login time is initialized and allows to login.

Should you have any alternatives please so post in here.

[Yankidank]

Very cool stuff, good work Dollars6

[dollars5]

But be informed that th validation.php does not fit into the current template, if any one could volunteer to clean this up - that would be great. If possible please do make it as a module.

Also on a other note for people inquiring abt Captchas displayed: This is using better captcha for Pligg that is available from http://www.pligg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4595 it allows users to use their own fonts to get weird characters, alpha-numeric display - this module too is in a very early stage - if someone could improve on it - that would be great.

Thanks for all support.

[kbeeveer46]

Nice job. We'll have to see about making this a module. Might be a little tougher than usual for this type of customization.

[dollars5]

The possibilities of getting this into module would take more effort because - it requires the login, registration to be modified.

But the e-mail confirmation can be made as a module and we can check to see if the module is activated or not to use the modified login, registration scripts - this is one possibility to convert it into a module. but not sure how much code change that it would require.

If any one can volunteer to make these changes - it would be great as we are developing modules as a side task apart from our main work (Mobile applications development + consulting) and cannot afford more time into this

[kbeeveer46]

Maybe the ability to turn it off and on in the admin panel would be a better idea.

[dollars5]

So far we have experience in creating modules - Admin panel is a new place for us to play with - but if any one can initiate a work into this - we can continue the good work

[abcdefgary]

I'm having trouble setting this up. Particularly here:

		define('DB_NAME', 'Database Name');    // The name of the database
		define('DB_USER', 'Username');     // Your MySQL username
		define('DB_PASSWORD', 'Password'); // ...and password
		define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

am I suppose to change the first value, or the second value? (for example, do I place my db name at DB_NAME or under Database Name?

I do get an e-mail, but the activation link appears in the subject, rather than the email body, and it shows up as:

http://localhost/new/pligg19/validation.php/?code=##############################&uid=username

i must be doing something wrong.

[dollars5]

You must enter the all the 4 - DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST.
enter your database name for Pligg, enter your username for the database, enter your password for the database and last where the database is located and also pls do change the following line too

$message ="http://localhost/new/pligg19/validation.php/?code=$encode&uid=$username";

to point to the location of you validation.php file on server.

Sorry we had it hard coded, will fix such that it picks dynamically; on Monday - currently out of office and no access to server.