registration

Should the same email address be allowed to be used among multiple registrations?

I'm deciding whether to accept a new registration using an email that already exists in the database but using a different username or to refuse it. There are times when I forget username and/or password for a website. I then try to re-register using a different username/same email I used but often get refused by some web apps. What i...

PHP Registration: Auto-generate password or let user choose it

During registration, I'm debating how I should set user password: Let the user choose it. If i do this, I have to enforce some standards (length, weakness, may involve regexes, etc.) What do you normally do when you choose this way and why? Is there a library available for PHP for this? Auto-generate the password for the user and email...

DLL self-registration: how to register just for the current user?

I'm using Visual C++. I'd like to really only have the DLL registered for the current user, even if the users is an administrator. For that reason, I changed all of the project.rgs references to HKCR. But, using Process Monitor while using regsvr32 to register the DLL, I notice that it still tries to create HKCR\TypeLib\{ ... }. This ha...

What restrictions should I impose on usernames

What restrictions should I impose on usernames? why? What restrictions should I not impose on usernames? why? P.S. db is via best-practice PDO so no risk of sql injection Thanks ...

Image registration

hello any ideas on how to do a simple image registration (I have IMAGE1 and IMAGE2 takes from the same subject, but with camera moving a little and want to match IMAGE2 with IMAGE1)? I checked MANY softwares to do that, but they're all focused on medical images, so I couldn't input a simple JPEG (one even allowed PGM, but didn't work). ...

Letting users register to website, PHP

Hello I have my website and it's form is like this: Information More information Yet more information I want to allow users to register a username a password so that they can log in and leave comments on the items 1,2,3 etc. Each item of information is stored in a mysql table, so to generate the page, each item 1,2,3 etc is a row/rec...

Problem with combined Authentication/Login view.

I have been using Django for several years now and up until this point have always redirected users to a login page after registering their account, and therefore have never had a problem of this sort. I am currently running Django v1.01 and on a new yet-to-be-released site have a combined registration/authenticate/login view which ...

Got a strange OpenID. How can I change it?

(I am sorry, I wanted to ask this question on "meta" first, but it says there that I "can't post my question there because I don't have an OpenID") Hello, I am just a new user here and don't understand much. I asked my first question on stackoverflow and received a quick answer. I wanted to thank the answerer, so I responded to his ans...

Django login fails for some, not all

http://www.mydeliverylist.com Registration seems to be working just fine, but when users go to login with the completed registration, the webpage redirects to the main page without actually logging in. I've verified that the database is properly updated. However, on a local network (I'm hosting), I can register and log in just fine. ...

How do I register a domain with special symbols or characters?

Daring Fireball tweeted: ‘We Don’t Lie to Google’: http://✪df.ws/e4f I've been thinking about creating a url shortener and a short url similar to http://✪df.ws/ would be ideal as no one will ever have to manually type the symbol. I tried to register a domain with a heart ♥ on a few of the more popular domain name registrars, but u...

migrate two databases of joomla in one (within same server)

okay, don't laugh ... i'm a graphic designer, knowing a damned about php/mysql, etc., ... i have one index page and links to 2 different subfolders/joomla sites installed on the same server. Now i don't know how to make a simple thing, that my visitor don't need to register/log twice when they go from one page (joomla site/subfolder) to ...

User registration/login external to Wordpress MU

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to registering a new user in WordPress (MU specifically) from outside of wordpress? I'd also like to have the user log in/out from my own back-end code if there's a way to manipulate WordPress's codebase to do so. ...

What is a good service that offers registration code and activation services for Cocoa/OSX applications?

I have a completed Cocoa application and would like to sell it. I have found many services that will sell your application, but not many that will also handle activation. Are there any services that will integrate activation into the installation file or are there any services that are easy to integrate (hopefully will take at max an hou...

COM on Windows7 and Visual Studio

I registered a COM dll (under administrator) using regsvr32, which I want to use in Visual Studio 2008 (under administrator) for my project in Windows 7. Now, when I try to use the interfaces and classes from the COM, then I can't see any of the methods. When I use the object browser to view the COM classes, then I can see that they are ...

How to design the member system of a website considering openID?

I am designing the database of a website and I have noticed that stackoverflow adopts openID which is very impressive. But what if some users use email address which doesn't support openID. What do you think of this issue? ...

Signup with email authentication, only 30% are activated?

I am using php and mysql. And my site is in flash (full flash site) I have a website which let users to sign up. The signup process including sending "activation email", click link to activate account. The first two weeks was fine. Out of around 2000 users, 1800 users are activated. After that, the activated users drop drastically, to ...

Question regarding product activation scheme

The typical product activation scheme is as follows A unique serial no. is assigned to user A unique hardware id is generated for the user's machine. On giving this info to the vendor, the vendor issues an activation code. I would like to know how the activation code is generated and what are its contents. Also what is the general s...

django-registration custom registration form (recaptcha field)

I try to add a recaptcha field to my registration form and followed Marcos guide: http://www.marcofucci.com/tumblelog/26/jul/2009/integrating-recaptcha-with-django/ In my registration app, I have a file "forms.py" which looks like this: from recaptcha import fields as captcha_field from registration.forms import RegistrationFormUniqu...

Confirm Email on Dotnetnuke Registration

I have a registration page in Dotnetnuke. I want to have a confirm email field, because a lot of our users are mis-entering their email. I've looked at this seven ways to Sunday, and can't figure out how to get this to happen. I've dug through the circuitous logic for displaying the form (I think), and I can't find the right place to h...

MsBuild Task: Register Com Component on remote/deployed-to machine?

I am currently still fiddling with our msbuild & deployment script and one of the steps is to register a (legacy) com component on the machine the code is deployed to. Is there any 'elegant' way to accomplish this or would I have to call the regsvr32.exe via wmi on the remote machine? ...