[Resolved] Register Script w/ Email Activation

[Sayian]

I need to add email activation to my register.php script

Anyone have any ideas how i can do this , so that when a user signups up , the account wont be active untill they check their email a click a link.

[planetsim]

[man]mail[/man] The rest is just simply using PHP and Database to create the new user account.

[Atomiku]

When someone registers, store a random string in a mysql database along with their username then send them the email to tell them to goto activate.php?activationkey=[The random string here]&user=$username

Then in activation.php it should be something like this:

connect to db
select a table
select from users where username = '$username'

then umm...
Check whether the username matches the activation key

[Sayian]

Hmm ok , i think i unserstand. I will try.

[Sayian]

How can i create a random 16 varchar string using php?

[csousley]

rand()
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php