registration authorization

18-delta

hopefully someone can give a short answer one this one.

i run a small personal site. As you well know, when a user registers, php sends them a registration email to there address containing a link to activate their account.

i have spent hours searching through this forum and others questions i have seen deal with setting internal permissions or adding code to set user levels. Simply what i am after is a way, or setting, that i as the administrator, have to personally authorize new members who apply. instead of any JoeBlow being able to sign up and become a member just by clicking the authorization link.

helz

i suppose that if you add an extra field in the table called authorise and then on the login page only log them in if their authorise is set to 1 in the db, you can set it to one by in the member.php file or whatever you add a thingy where when they get the email you get sent one asking you to either go to member.php?id=4&authorise=1 to let them log on

in the member.php you just have:

if (($GET['authorise']==1) && ($GET['id'])) {

$sql = mysql_query("UPDATE authorise FROM $membertable WHERE id = '$_GET['id']' ");

}

naturally theres more to it than that, making sure that the user thats authorising it is an admin and stuff like that,

hope you get an idea to a solution

18-delta

wow, exactly what i was afraid of. I know nothing about code, I can dive into code and kinda find my way around but as far as code creation i'm stumped.

I was hoping someone had a simple answer that didnt involve a bunch of code. Seems odd that registration authorization isn't something more people would want to see integrated into their sites to keep general public people out.

Reason im looking for something is bcause i want to put family photos available for download on the site and i don't want the intire internet world to be able to view or download them. I read up on file permissions and stuff but i had figured it would be much easier to just allow what members i wanted to register to have access to certain parts of the site. for example, you can easily set the "downloads" section only to be accessible to registered members. hence..., regulating who becomes members.

any ideas are much appriciated.

thanks

helz

if you have time to wait. like tomorrow i can wisk you up some code. if so then please post the code that you use for editing members/ setting them as admins and whatever, so i know what names to call variables and soforth.. also do you use a field in your members table that you use to set a user as admin?

18-delta

I appriciate the offer but as i mentioned, im not using or creating the code. all the settings i use are contained within the administration panel interface.

I did find a temporary fix using htaccess. seems to work fine for what i need it for at the moment. really, thanks again for the offer but i wouldnt know what to do with the code when you gave it to me unless it was accompanied by some detailed instructions.

helz

heh, also one thing you failed to mention which is imperitive is that your using php-nuke, that kind of thing is worth saying before people start trying to help... in the admin section you can set users to be admins of certain areas, im not sure how, but youve just gotta take a look around...