Allow users to delete themselves

This one was requested by Webhost. Personally I can't see the use for this, but a hacker's gotta do what a hacker's gotta do.

Anyway, this one is really simple.

First, create a new template named "deleteself" with this:

<center>Are you sure you want to delete your user account from this message board?<br>
All of your current posts will be set to "Guest".
<b>This is not revertible!</b>

<form action="member2.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="killme">
<input type="submit" value="    Yes    " class="bginput">
</form></center>

Now open the attached text file, and add the code from it to member2.php right after this code:

  eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("subscribe")."\");");
}

That's it. Now people can go to member2.php?s=&action=deleteme, and if they click Yes there their profile (and the rest of the data associated with that user) will be deleted.

I put in a nice 'done' message, I'll post a screen shot in a minute.

[webhost]

Thanks again Chen, what we did was a long time back we installed this hack by Chris https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=18718
Which is for a user to subscribe to a forum in return they receive a email when there is a new thread made. We have a forum where we post all important network and site information that we subscribed everyone to.
We wanted this option where we could add it to the email to give a user not only the option to unsubscribe to the forum but also delete their selve if they so desire. So this works great for that.

[Smellycat]

See what you started now Chen, you cant let them all down can you!

[Admin]

Originally posted by Smellycat
See what you started now Chen, you cant let them all down can you!

Watch me.

[Velocd]

For somebody like you it would take no time at all to make. I think users should have the option to delete themselves if they no longer want to be registered, but there needs to be extra security to prevent hackers. Please

If you don't want to do it for us, do it for Germany!

[Admin]

Heh, sorry but no. If people want feel free to take this hack and add stuff to it, I really don't mind.

[Matt]

It should be pretty straight forward in theory, why not just have it so that they are all moved into a "deleted" usergroup which you clear out every so often?

[Velocd]

The email verification is probably the easiest way of all. I just don't have the time to code it.

Somebody please?

[Floris]

Originally posted by FireFly
I'm not going to build on this hack, I don't find it very useful and don't think it's worth it (I'm glad Overgrow and Webhost like it tho ).

xiphoid: no this won't be a feature in vB3 (and please stop asking me that question, I'm really not in a position to say that -- simply because I have no idea!).

Thank you for replying, and sorry for asking ( .. if you guys just know how vB3 is eating us up!!! - but sorry, I will)


[update]
I was not able to let a user enter a reason yet, but I was able to code an extra line that will give the webmaster an Email which user with userid unregistered. Making it work with vB now .. and will post soon.

[Floris]

This will NOT E-mail the user who unregisters, but it will E-mail the webmaster that the user unregistered. And gives the username and userid.

After applying Firefly's hack, open member2.php and search for:

	$DB_site->query("DELETE FROM session WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");

	eval("standarderror(\"<br><br>You've just been erased.<br><br>\");");

And replace that with:

	$DB_site->query("DELETE FROM session WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");
	mail("$webmasteremail", "User $bbuserinfo[username] Unregistered", "Username $bbuserinfo[username] \n UserID $bbuserinfo[userid] \n Unregistered", "From: $webmasteremail\r\n");
	eval("standarderror(\"<br><br>You've just been deleted.<br><br>\");");

You will get an E-mail to/from webmaster email with msg

username: <the user>
userid: <the userid>
unregistered!

I tested it on my board (2.2.5) and it works. But I used username "tester". I am not sure how to handle (and if it is needed) usernames with weird characters. Maybe somebody can test?

And maybe now someone can make addition so user can give up a reason, and the webmaster will also get: reason: <reason>

[Admin]

I believe you need to unhtmlspecialchars() the username before sending it.