How can I register with CakePHP ?
After registering , it will send email for confirmation.
If I click the link for confirmation then the account will be confirmed.
How can I do this?
Is there any function with Auth to do that?
Or do I have to send mail manually to confirm registration ?
If I have to send email manually to confirm registration, then how can I generate the registration token, and how can I set time to be a valid token ?
Can anyone show an example of this?
Check the source of the Cake Development Corporations users plugin, its available for CakepPHP 1.3 and 2.0. https://github.com/cakedc/users It already does everything - in a proper MVC and CakePHP way - that you request. Simply use the plugin or take some of the code.
user table:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`username` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_persian_ci NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_persian_ci NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8_persian_ci NOT NULL,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
`status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`activation_code` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_persian_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;
when user registered, u can set a unique string (sample: md5(time()) or any thing...) in activation_code field. now send email like this url to user:
http://test/controller/action/activation_code
now you have to check in your action that this activation_code is in user table or not.
and if is then is that status = disable or not....
You can easily generate a hashcode like a token in PHP and validate it's duration by a TimeStamp. For email just use the Email component like this. If you want to use Auth Component, be sure that your form give you the correct hash for password.
function register() {
$error = false;
$error_captcha = null;
if(isset($this->data)){
App::import('Component','Generate');
App::import('Component', 'Converter');
App::import('Component','Email');
if(empty($this->data['User']['password'])||strlen($this->data['User']['password'])<5){
$this->User->invalidate("password");
$error = TRUE;
}
if($this->data['User']['password']<>$this->data['Temp']['password']){
$this->User->invalidate("seotitle");
$error = TRUE;
}
$captcha_respuesta = recaptcha_check_answer ($this->captcha_privatekey,
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
$_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
$_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);
if ($captcha_respuesta->is_valid && !$error) {
$this->data['User']['coderegistration'] = $this->generate->getUserCode();
$this->data['User']['displayname'] = $this->data['User']['firstname'] . " " . $this->data['User']['lastname'];
$this->data['User']['seotitle'] = $this->converter->seotitle($this->data['User']['username']);
$this->data['User']['password'] = md5($this->data['User']['username'].$this->data['User']['password']);
$this->User->id = NULL;
if($this->User->save($this->data)){
/*
=========================
send email notification
=========================
*/
$email = $this->data['User']['email'];
$content = sprintf('<a href="%s/%s">here</div>', $this->url, $this->data['User']['coderegistration']);
$this->email->to = $email;
$this->email->subject = 'you have been registered, please confirm';
$this->email->replyTo = 'mail@mail.com';
$this->email->from = "name <mail@mail.com>";
$this->email->template = 'notification';
$this->email->sendAs = 'html';
$this->set('value', $content);
if($this->email->send()){
// OK
}else{
trigger_error("error Mail");
}
}
}else{
$error_captcha = $captcha_respuesta->error;
$this->set('error_email',true);
}
}
$this->setTitlePage();
$this->layout = "home";
$this->set('backurl', '/');
$this->set('posturl','');
$this->set('captcha_publickey',$this->captcha_publickey);
}
to send the email load the Email component also . The register function given already is good and you should go with that.
basically concept is to add user, then create a token (With timestamp ro whatever) and save this to a database, then send an email with a link to that token.
Then when the user clicks the link to the token you set user = active and they are now registerd and can login.
A good tip for your Auth therefore is add a "scope" (check the cakephp docs for 1.3) to Auth. Make this scope the condtion that active = 1. So that way they will need to have confirmed from the email link, and can never login until this is done. Easy!
