Confirmation Emails

[OldSmelly]

Hello,

As with so many websites I want to send the user a confirmation email with a link to a activation page as the user changes his login credentials.

Does anyone know how do to create these links ?

I have a fare idea but just can't put my finger on it.

Thanks in advance

Hans

 

[sleipnir214]

You'll need two scripts.

The first script takes an email address, generates some kind of hash, stores both in a database, then sends a message with a verification URL to the email address. The URL will be of the form: [ignore]

http://somedomain.com/somescript.php?email=someaddress@somedomain.com&id=<the

hash>[/ignore]

Somescript.php will then take that email and hash and see if a record with matching values exists. If it does, the address is considered validated.

I recommed that all records created by the first script have a timestamp on them. The user must validate the address before <timestamp> + <some number of hours>. The timestamp also allows you to write a housekeeping script that runs perodically (or which could be part of the validating second script) and removes entries that have been in the table too long.



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