E-mail confirmation link PHP

[Jaysun]

I'm trying to advance the PHP skills I have now and make a user system with some more features. I'm stuck on how to create the user-system so that the user gets an email with a confirmation link in which they have to click then they would be verified and be able to use the site.

[wsg14]

I coded exactly that a few days ago, it's pretty simple. Add two fields to your user table, (activationkey and activated) upon registration make a variable that creates a random number code and insert it into the actvationkey column. Then set activated to no. Then have an email be sent to the user's email with a link something like this "http://www.yoursite.com/activate.php?key=$activationkey" $activationkey being the variable that holds their key number.

Then make account.php which uses an if statement to see if the user's account is activated, if it isn't then update the activated column to yes where activationkey = $_GET['activationkey'].

If you get my drift, ask me on msn/twitter of you need any more help as this is sort of a brief description.

[Protege]

Or you could just have "Activation" and set a code, if confirmed set it with "true"

[Meti]

http://phpeasystep.com/phptu/24.html

Should work.

[Jaysun]

Thank you. +Rep

[Dentafrice]

If that doesn't work..

Just have two fields, activation_code & activated (default, 0).

E-mail them with the activation code, which links to a file on your site, it checks it.. then sets activated to 1.

Easy ;)