uman

Hi, does anyone know of any techniques to do e-mail confirmation? Like when you sign up for a site, and you have to then go click a link in your email before you can start using the site. Any help wolud be greatly appreciated!

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Ooble

Create an email ID for that user in your database, along with a passcode that is sent to the user. Whip up a PHP page that sets a boolean in your database to true when these details are entered (use $_REQUEST so they can use HTTP GET to enter the information). Then email them the details, a link to the PHP page, and a link to the page that automatically enters the info via GET.

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BlazingWolf

Exactly what Ooble said. To generate an activation key just use the current time or a random number or basically any number that is always changing and then md5 hash it.

Then create a page that searches for the user with that key and makes that boolean true.

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