Email Validation Link help

[Voyager]

Hi

I'm building a website and, I have a form where the visitors insert their name and email address to download free content.
What I need is a script to handle that form in the following way:

1-Validate the name and email address;
2-Post one email to visitor with a link to confirm email given; [i](if possible random generated link)[/i]
3-If visitor confirms write his name and email address to my database;
4-After confirmation redirect visitor to a download page.

After serching through dozens of scripts I didn't find anything specific for my needs. Any help will be greatful.
I'm willing to pay for a good script.

Thanks

[hackerkts]

It's best to write the script yourself, because you can configure it to your needs.
You can read on this article how to valid email address, http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Email-Address-Verification-with-PHP/1/

In your database add another column as status, default value = 0, once a user registered their account you send them an email to validate their acc, once they validate change the status to 1.

P.S: This just a rough idea how it works.

[Ninjakreborn]

[code]<?php
function validateemail($email) {
global $errorhandler;
// set regular expression to test email
if ($email == "") {
$errorhandler .= "The email address was left blank.<br />";
}
$regexemail =
"^[A-Za-z0-9\._-]+@([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{1,62})(\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-]{1,62})+$";
if (!ereg("$regexemail", $email)) {  // test for formatting
$errorhandler .= "The email address is improperly formatted<br />";

}
}
?>[/code]
That function will deal with your validation, now as for confirmation you can save a code in the database, pass the email address an email with a link in it, containing the code dynamically.  If that code comes back and matches the database, they are authorized, or give them a link to a pre-login area just to authorize, so you know they came from a real email address.  Also putting in a captcha will also add extra security.