[Release vb2.0] Send random password instead of activation code

[high]THIS HACK WILL NOT WORK IN VB 2.2.0 AND UP! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL IT!
Go to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=33068 for the appropriate hack[/high]


This is something I've wanted to do for a long time, and since someone mentioned it in the Suggestions forum, I figured I'd write the hack

Purpose: When a new user regsiters, he is e-mailed a password generated randomly. He will not be able to log in until he receives this e-mail and uses that password. (the same happens if an existing user changes his e-mail address).

After installing this hack, you will have three options essentially:

1) Don't verify the e-mail is valid.
In this case the user selects his own password and nothing is sent to him.

2) Verify the e-mail is valid by sending an activation code
This is how vBulletin works now: a user selects his own password during registration, and the BB Mailer sends him an activation code / link that he needs to use before he's able to post

3) Verify the e-mail is valid by sending a random password
In this case the user DOES NOT select a password but instead he receives a randomly generated password by e-mail. He will not be able to log in / post until he receives and uses this password.


The installation includes:

1) Running a script that updates your database (adds an option "Send New Users Random Password?" with default "NO" -- to preserve your currect state).

2) Editing three scripts (register.php, member.php, admin/functions.php)

3) Editing two templates (registeradult, registercoppa) and adding three new templates (small ones).


If you have questions, I'm here

Cheers,

Bira

[bira]

Essam, they can still activate themselves. That system did not get impaired in any way.

bokhalifa, this is the template email_lostpw -- it's the same template that people get when they lost their password and request for it.

mmm,,
Is there a way to send all the unactivated members a new password? instead of still requiring them to activate themselves.

[bira]

Essam, go to the Control Panel -> Usergroups. Click in 'list users' next to Users Awaiting Email Confirmation. For each user you can:

1) change his usergroup to 'registered'
2) click on 'send password'

If you have more than a dozen or so, let me know and I'll write you a quick script to run to do that in a batch.

[bokhalifa]

thank you bira

good hack min

More than a dozen?!
I have 1319 member awaitning confirmation

I would really appreciated if you write me that hack. The hack will send a random password right?
Cause for the normal password this can be done from "Email Users".

[bira]

Essam with so many, I would actually recommend you delete them, because there are bound to be a lot of duplicate people who tried several times, or people who tried a long time ago and forgot about it.

If, however, you want to send them a password anyway and don't mind about "dead" registrations, then you could just do the following two steps IN THAT ORDER:

1) email password to all the users in the "Users Awaiting Email
Confirmation"

2) AFTER sending the e-mail, run a MySQL query via phpMyAdmin:

UPDATE user SET usergroupid='2' WHERE usergroupid='3' AND posts='0'

Personally, I would recommend you delete all those accounts who are, say, one month old. If you want to do this, then run the following command BEFORE you do steps 1 and 2 mentioned above:

DELETE FROM user WHERE usergroupid='3' AND posts='0' AND joindate<'986500000'

Thank you bira,
I'll try that.

[-dloh-hammer]

Is this hack for rc1 or rc2 ?

get a parsing error in register.php line 204 /207

[bira]

rc2

[-dloh-hammer]

lol than I must upgrade