How to verify email address?

[scottew]

Hello everyone,

I have a form on a website so that people can sign up to receive a newsletter from our company. When the user signs up, I would like to send them a link for them to click on to verify that they did sign up for the news letter.

I have the form and the email part done, I just don't know how to go about sending the link and how to process the link once it is clicked on.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Do you want send the person an e-mail with a link to confirm that they are the ones that registered? Kind of like a registration confirmation?

The way I can think of is:
1. Create a column in the dB, say isEnrolled. Set that column name to 0 initially when a user signs-up.
2. Then generate an e-mail to all users where isEnrolled=0. In the e-mail have a confirm link that passes a unique encrypted key and the userID.
3. Once the link is clicked or entered in the browser, UPDATE the table and set the isEnrolled=1.



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[scottew]

That is exactly what I am trying to do. I am just not sure how to pass an encrypted key link in the email.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Use the encrypt() and decrypt() function.

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[imstillatwork]

user registration:
user signs up, but is not active (db field called active, value=0)

generate activation code with createUUID(), and save it in the users table.
<cfset newActivationcode = createUUID()>
Save that in the user table as well.

Send the newley registered user an email with a link containing the activation code.

<a href="activateUser.cfm?code=#newActivationCode#">activate...</a>

Process Activation Code (activateUser.cfm)

Run query on user table looking up rows where activationcode = url.code (activation code from the link you sent in email)

If a row is returned, update that user to active = 1

during the logon proccess, only allow users to log on if active = 1 for that user.



Successfull registration sends

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[imstillatwork]

I'm on someone elses laptop with sticky keyboard, sorryfor the mess above

Kevin

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