Activation Link in email

[craigtolputt]

Hi Guys,

 

Is it possible to have a table in my database called say active.

 

Then when a user registers the first email they get is a thank you email with an activation link.

 

When pressed it tells the active table to goto done or something.

 

Then when they login it checks to see if active = done and if so lets them in, if not then it says sorry you need to activate the user??

 

Also i am using flash for my site and php to do the registration, and its not my code i have bought it from flashden so will need to know if i can implement it to this script that i already use??

 

cheers     ???

[trq]

Yes, all that is possible.

[MadTechie]

What i normally do, is add a field to the users table called active.. (tiny int(1))

when they login i check its set to 1, if not then tell them to activate their account.

 

a basic how to..

create 2 fields in your user table

-active (tiny int(1), default 0)

-activecode (mediumint(8 ) )

 

on signup

create a random number

$activecode=rand(0,99999999); 

and put it in the activecode field

 

now the activation link will be something like this:~

mydomain.com/activate.php?email=$email&activecode=$activecode

 

<?php
include "databasestuff.php";

//sanitize the gets
$email = mysql_escape_string($_GET['email']);
$activecode= (int)$_GET['activecode'];

$sql = "update user SET active=1 WHERE activecode=$activecode AND email='$email' ";
?>

 

 

EDIT:the above is noway perfect and is just a basic example

[craigtolputt]

Wow thanks,

 

So instead of creating the activate.php could i add that to this...

 

<?php
//include the connect script
include "connect.php";

/*THIS VARIABLE IS WHAT TABLE YOU ARE USING...IF YOU USED MY SQL FILE, THEN YOUR DEFAULT TABLE*/
/*NAME SHOULD BE 'userv2' AND YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING, BUT IF YOU MADE YOUR OWN TABLE,*/
/*CHANGE THIS VARIABLE.*/
$tableName = "usersv2";

//Post all of the users information (md5 Encrypt the password)
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);
$passwordsend = ($_POST['password']);
$firstName = $_POST['firstName'];
$lastName = $_POST['lastName'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$state = $_POST['state'];
$zip = $_POST['zip'];


//Generate confKey (this is used to determine which user it is when the user forget's their password.
function createConfKey() {
$chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789";
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$i = 0;
$key = '';
while ($i <= 31) { 
	$num = rand() % 33;
	$tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1);
	$key = $key . $tmp;
	$i++;
}    
return $key;
}
$thekey = createConfKey();
//$theKey is the random 32 character string and then $confKey is the random 32 character string with md5 encryption.
$confKey = md5($thekey);
//grab all the usernames in the table
$sql1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE username = '$username'");
//grab all the emails in the table
$sql2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE email = '$email'");
//get number of results from both queries
$row1 = mysql_num_rows($sql1);
$row2 = mysql_num_rows($sql2);
//if there is a result it will be either 1 or higher
if($row1 > 0 || $row2 > 0) {
//echo username or email is already in use and deny registration.
echo "&msgText=Username or email already in use!";
} else {
//if there was no existing username or email, insert all their information into the database.
$insert = mysql_query("INSERT INTO $tableName (username,password,firstName,lastName,email,phone,address,city,state,zip,confKey) VALUES ('$username','$password','$firstName','$lastName','$email','$phone','$address','$city','$state','$zip','$confKey')") or die(mysql_error());
//This is required for and HTML email to be sent through PHP.
$headers = "From: admin@redwebsecurity.com\r\n";
$headers.= "Subject: RedWeb Security Group Registration Details\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
/******HERE YOU CAN EDIT WHAT YOU WANT THE EMAIL TO SAY WHEN THEY FORGET THEIR PASSWORD******/
/*																							*/
/*PHP Explained:                                                                            */
/*$msg are all the same variable, however, when you set the first one to just '=' and the   */
/*second one to '.=' it basically concatinates the two variables. For example:              */
/*																							*/
/*																							*/
/*										$a = 1;												*/
/*										$a .= 2;											*/
/*										$a .= 3;											*/
/*										echo $a;											*/
/*																							*/
/*										This will echo: 123									*/
/*																							*/
/*																							*/
/*	Be sure to include $firstName & $lastName somewhere in the message so the user knows 	*/
/*  what the message is																		*/
/*																							*/
/*																							*/
/*																							*/
/********************************************************************************************/

$msg = "<img src=\"http://www.tktest.co.uk/redweb/images/logo.gif\" /><br/><br>";
$msg .= "Hello $firstName $lastName,<br/>";
$msg .= "We would like to thank you for joining our web site.<br/><br>";
$msg .= "Your Username is: $username<br/>";
$msg .= "Your Password is: $passwordsend<br/><br>";
$msg .= "Please keep these safe and if you have any questions, contact us at <br><br>";
$msg .= "<a href=\"mailto:admin@redwebsecurity.com\">admin@redwebsecurity.com</a>.";
mail($email,"Thanks for Registering!",$msg,$headers);


//and echo "Successfully registered!" and take them to a "thanks for registering" frame in flash
echo "&msgText=Successfully registered!";
echo "&nameText=$firstName";
}

?>

 

This is the php code that lets users register from my flash form.