Random Password on register

This generates a random password and sends it along with the activation email that users are sent. For this to work you must have verify email enabled. You obviously don't want to send a random password to an email which might not exist.

hack suggested by psico.

Note this is not as advanced as the one by bira, it simply sends a random password on register, it doesn't sent a random pass if they change email.

Last updated on 04th of November 2001 14:45GMT

now includes an option to turn the random password option on and off within the admin cpanel.

[Scott MacVicar]

line 198 please.

the line 3 is where the error is occuring on the code that is being evaluated.

[The Realist]

I wish I could show you line 198 but the php file stops at line 141.

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[malc]

Originally posted by The Realist
On installing all works fine, but an error is showing up on top of the registration page:

Parse error: parse error in /home/sites/home/web/forum/register.php(198) : eval()'d code on line 3


I Installed as per Instructions?

Any help?

me too

[Scott MacVicar]

mail your register.php file to

software@pp-network.com

both of you and i will check and sort the hack for you i don't understand whats wrong as it works fine on my test board.

[Steve Machol]

PPN,

I'm pretty sure emailing full vB files is prohibited by the license agreement.

[Scott MacVicar]

hmm em how about upload in an attachment here and i will edit it and then re-upload as only liscenced people can download the files.

If not then em i'll make the hack documentation easier to understand :/

[updon]

PPN,

Since no one got back to you about this error and it popped up when I installed this hack, here goes:

same error:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/www/mypath/public_html/2002/talk/register.php(201) : eval()'d code on line 3

which makes it so that the "Your email will be randomly generated and emailed to you" type message doesn't show up on the register page.

From my register.php, line 201:

       eval("\$passbit = \"".gettemplate("register_randompass")."\");");

and my register_randompass template is:

<tr><td bgcolor="#13486D" colspan="2"><normalfont><b>A Password will be sent to you once you finish registering. You will be able to change it after you have logged in</b></normalfont></td></tr>

Please let me know if you need more info...

Thanks,

Updon

oh yeah! Other than the small error message it works great.

[updon]

The code in the vb_random_pass.txt file is incorrect

if ($randompass) {
  eval("\$passbit = \"".gettemplate("register_randompass")."\");"); 
} else {
  eval("\$passbit = \"".gettemplate("register_pass")."\");"); 
}

There is an extra ) on each line.

This is how I got it to work:

if ($randompass) {
  eval("\$passbit = \"".gettemplate("register_randompass")."\";"); 
} else {
  eval("\$passbit = \"".gettemplate("register_pass")."\";"); 
}

[Scott MacVicar]

thanks dude i never got that error when i was using it, i will adjust the text file in the first post shortly.

[Wolf42]

Great hack, PPN! And thanks to updon it is running very well.