validation

[irishgirl2004]

Hi,
I am trying at add some validation on a site. When a user completes the usual registration process, i want to email them a link, and their account is only active after they click on this link, is this easy to do? Can anybody point me to a webpage with examples of such a function?

Thanks

[mrhappiness]

in your user table add 2 new columns called "validated" and "activation_id"

upon registration create a random string and store it in column "activation_id" (write 0 into column "validated")

send a mail to the user containing a like like

http://www.example.com/active.php?id=[i]the activation_id you generated[/i]

in activate.php update your user table: set "validated" to 1 where "activation_id" holds the value the user provided via $_GET['id']

in your login make sure you only allow logging in if "validated" = 1

[LoganK]

mr. happiness gave a really nice example.

And a really nice music composition.

[Drakla]

LoganK wrote:

mr. happiness gave a really nice example.

And a really nice music composition.

I wasn't aware there was a narrator position going on phpbuilder

[LoganK]

Well, since it had been roughly 12 hours since the solution being posted, I wanted the original poster to be reminded about this thread, in case he just used the advice and promptly forgot about it.

The music side-note was a comment about his sig.

[irishgirl2004]

he?????

thanks for the solution......

[dalecosp]

/me bows to the lady ... 😉