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You will need validation library, you can find more information about the validation library on the following link: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/validation.html

KoKo 2010-08-06 14:15:52

Hi, not validation but verification. When someone registers, they'll be send an email with a link. That link has to be clicked in order to activate the account of that user. Exaclty like for example this forum: http://www.programmingforums.org/ you can't post here untill you register and verify/confirm you're the owner of that email address you gave at registration.

Yustme 2010-08-06 14:36:50

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Use the Email Class to send the email. The email could contain a link with a "secret key", something random and hash-like, like 5dfg7898ssdf (I made that one up :) ). The link could point to: example.com/verify/user/5dfg7898ssdf Then in a codeigniter controller called "verify", you put this function (just some quick code):

function user($key = NULL)
{
 if($key)
 {
  // Find key in database
  // If it exists, then mark
  // the corresponding user as "activated"
 }
}

Matthew 2010-08-06 15:26:16

Its what i do all the time. Verifies an email exists by forcing a user to view their email!

dotty 2010-08-06 15:32:41

Yep, this is the way I would do it as well. Create a unique verification key for that user, store it in the database as a field in the 'users' table, and create a public method in your "user" controller called "verify($key)" or something like that. Then in your email, link the user to:http://example.com/user/verify/520592u02492089

treeface 2010-08-06 16:46:48

Writing a unique key to the db is the best way to do it, but if for some reason you don't want to use a db field then it would be better to use a salted md5 hash based on the users' email or username rather than having a static secret key like Matthew seemed to suggest.

Calle 2010-08-06 23:18:50

Thanks! That should do the trick. I'll try it out later.

Yustme 2010-08-07 17:45:24

@Calle I didn't mention having a "static" secret key. It would have to be dynamic (it has to verify a specific email, not just any email).

Matthew 2010-08-20 14:21:16

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