E-mail verification

Deposeni

Everything has it now'a'days... Forums, web-based games, etc.

We all know what it does - you sign up, enter your e-mail address, and it e-mails you a confirmation code - and you can't use your account til you enter that code...

But how do you DO it? How would I program something like this? The user signs up, right when they sign up they're e-mailed with a confirmation code... I know how to do everything besides decide on the actual confirmation code itself.... (User signs up - creates the account, but under column "confirmed" it adds a 0... once the user enters the code that matches the "Confirmation code" cell, it changes that "Confirmed" to 1 and the user is allowed to access everything)

vaska

i'm sure you could find "snippets" of code on this site to help you...

and this is a really good tutorial with source code to get you started...of course, you'll need to tweak the code some...

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/319

good luck...jv

Deposeni

Uh perhaps you read it wrong - I know how to do everything on this site - what I need to do is make user authentication.

Goto a forum, or a web-based game and create an account... You'll get an e-mail 2-3 minutes later with a URL, and an activation code... You have to enter that code before you can use your account - THATS what I don't know. (Well I know the basic concept - but I don't know how to actually create the code, or make an easy-click url (http://www.site.com/activate.php?code=######) to send in an e-mail while creating the account)

doobster

srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$ac = rand(100000, 1000000);

http://www.site.com/activate.php?ac=$ac&id=$id

in your database insert the user and set a field called ac to the value of $ac. next send an email asking the user to click on the link to activate account.

in the activate.php script use the following

$res = mysql_query("select email from user where id=$id && ac=$ac");
if (mysql_num_rows($res) != 1) {
    echo("<head><title>$title</title><meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"1;URL=$self_url\"></head><body><span style=\"font-size:250%\">$title</span><br><span style=\"font-size:150%\">Failed to resolve activation code!</span></body></html>");
}
else {  //Activated update activation code to 0
  $email = mysql_result($res, 0);
  $res = mysql_query("update user set ac=0 where id=$id");
}