How to authorize accounts in PHP-Nuke

Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Okay so I lied. hehe I still have one more question.

Is there a way to make it so that when someone signs up for your site that the admin of the site recieves a e-mail and then has to click on a link in that e-mail to authorize the users account?

Basicaly I want to know and approve eveyone that signs up on my site/forum. I tried turing on ADMIN in the forum options for approvel but that did not work.

arnoldkrg · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:49 am Post subject: Approve Membership

Yes it can be done, or at least something close to it. Take a look at the following topic

http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38

It might help. I submitted a module for Chris to check out a couple of weeks ago. ardklq is testing it at the moment and seems to have no problems with it.

If you need to know more....pm me

Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Ya I saw that post before I posted mine and the link was broken. I was not 100% sure if thats what would give me the results I was looking for or not.

Do you happen to have the source that you could either link or send to me?

Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Well I found it but I don't know if its the current version or not..

NSN Your Account 3.0.2e

Got the file from here:

http://www.phpnukefiles.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=43

I did find a SERIOUS bug though. I was testing the script and I set it up so that users had to be authorized by the admin. I created a dummy account and I got the auth to my admin e-mail address. I then approved the dummy user. Then I decited to DELETE the user. It asked me to enter a reason so I did and it OK. I then got a e-mail in my dummy e-mail account saying my site account was deleted. It then adds a new box below your ACTIVE USERS that says something like deleted users. So I clicked on my dummy account and hit remove.

This is the kicker...
Exclamation

When I went back into the the admin module and clicked on EDIT USERS <B>ALL MY USERS WERE GONE!</B> I was like what the heck! So I looked in my users table in mysql and it would not even load the table in phpmyadmin. lol luckly I had a backup copy of my users table. This is a HUGE bug though. I think I could of use the console and fixed the problem, but not sure. I did this twice just to make sure thats what was killing it.

chris · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 2:21 pm Post subject:

With Your_Account (I think it is called Your_Account_Tweak) you must be careful to download the version that matches your PHP-Nuke version *exactly*.

Sorry for the delay of the package, I will give it first priority now. Wink

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Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Yup thats what I'm using NSN Your Account Tweak and in the read me it says its for phpnuke 6.5.0 which is what I'm running. I think its just a problem with the way its dropping the users from the users database. Trying to find the authers site so I could post on his site to let him know.

Othere then the remove user function of the script it works perfect. Its doing exactly what I was wanting done.

chris · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject:

O.K., a PHP-Nuke package of Ken Arnold that allows the administrator to approve a user, is available for download here.

DISCLAIMER and LICENCE: No guarantees given. Use at your own risk. Software was set under the GPL by Ken.

Thanks Ken!
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Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Thanks Chirs for posting this, and thanks to Ken Arnold for making it. Wink

I'll give it a try on my localhost and see how it works. If I like it then I'll use it instead of the current one I'm using.

Thanks!

BTW: Great site. I hope you get larger and more members as you have a good base already. Thanks to you and all the others on this board that make it a good place for info.

Bill

Kabish · Corporal Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 14

Well I installed that and gave it a try. The script works just fine and works a little better then the last script I posted above.

Something I would suggest...

Steps I did:
Signed up with a dummy account
username: test password: testtest
Admin recieved a e-mail with the following info:

chris · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the praise! Smile

I deleted an identical posting of yours - I guess you pressed the button twice.

I find your suggestions logical and hope arnoldkrg will incorporate them.

Of course, you can do it too, as long as it remains GPLed.
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