Quick Registration Form on a non-vB page

Requested Here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...954#post394954

What does this hack do?

• It allows people to register at your website (to your vBulletin board) on a non-vBulletin page
• It provides a much quick method of registration, compared to the usual way
• only Guests can see this registration form. If the user is already registered, then he/she will see a message instead, such as Welcome back Gary!

Bugs
Found a bug? Please reply back and let me know!

Instructions
Be sure to place the attached code wherever you want the quick registration form to show up.

Enjoy!

[Gary King]

Yesterday at 10:19 PM Nebby said this in Post #8
EDIT: NM, i tested it, it just goes back to quickreg.php

Where would you want it to go?

[WEForums]

Yesterday at 09:04 PM Gary W said this in Post #10
Yes, it is. Some minor modifications would have to be made to the file, though. For example, the config.php variables would not be accessible, so you would have to add those manually.

To be clear, PHP files would be necessary for this hack to work? Or could it be done via HTML only? The website uses .shtml extensions is why I ask, and there isn't any PHP files on it. Don't really want to add any.

[Gary King]

The PHP file that processes the registration could be located somewhere else, just as long as the HTML file has access to it.

[WEForums]

Could you give me an example? Sorry to bug you but I don't exactly have the greatest of knowledge of this stuff, and it seems you know a LOT about this. (Been viewing a lot of your posts/threads.)

[Gary King]

Maybe the PHP file is accessible via FTP, or on the same server.

P.S.
Why not simply place the PHP file that processes the script, in the same directory as the HTML file, if you don't want to use a PHP file for the quick registration page?

[WEForums]

Today at 01:41 AM Gary W said this in Post #15
Maybe the PHP file is accessible via FTP, or on the same server.

I am sure they're on the same server but just a separate domain. (I do not 'own' the site, I just run the forums.)

Today at 01:41 AM Gary W said this in Post #15
P.S.
Why not simply place the PHP file that processes the script, in the same directory as the HTML file, if you don't want to use a PHP file for the quick registration page?

Wouldn't you still have to click onto another page? I simply would like the quick registration to be on the page rather than it having its very own page. You know, having the form on the HTML page?

The only reason for this is the site receives about 15,000-25,000 unqiue hits per day. The forums have 22,000-some odd members, but we're really looking to expand even more.

[Gary King]

Yes, you can have the form on the HTML page. So, you do not wish to have the form on a .PHP page? That is not at all possible? (May I ask why not?)

You can simply have the PHP file process the actual registration, while the HTML only "tells" the PHP page to register the user.

[WEForums]

So you could use HTML to "call" for the script's form, correct? And the script could be on a separate domain as well, right?

If so, would you find giving an example of the HTML? I have no experience working with forms... : (

[Gary King]

As long as the PHP script is accessible by the HTML file.

Example that you could use:

HTML file

PHP Code:

<form action='quickreg.php' method='post'>
Username: <input type='text' name='username'>
<br>Password: <input type='password' name='password'>
<br>Email: <input type='text' name='email'>
<br><input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit' accesskey='s'> 
<input type='reset' name='reset' value='Reset' accesskey='r'>
</form> 


PHP file (name it quickreg.php, otherwise you must change the action='' in the HTML file to whatever this file is called)

PHP Code:

<?php

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// VARIABLES
// $config = relative path to your vBulletin's /admin/config.php (must be on same server)
// $groupid = user group ID for people who register using this form
// $redirect = leave it as "yes" if you want to redirect the user to the vBulletin after he/she registers
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// board information
$config="forum/admin/config.php";
$groupid="2";
$redirect="yes";

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING BELOW HERE 
// UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$config=strtolower($config);
require($config);

$connect=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

if ($submit) {
    $unique=mysql_query("SELECT username FROM user WHERE username='$username'");
        $user=mysql_query("INSERT INTO user (usergroupid, username, password, email, joindate, 
        lastvisit, lastactivity) VALUES ('".$groupid."', '".htmlspecialchars(addslashes($username)).
        "', '".addslashes(md5($password))."', 
        '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email))."', '".time()."', '".time()."', '".time()."')",$connect);
        $userid=mysql_insert_id();
        $userfields=mysql_query("INSERT INTO userfield (userid) VALUES ($userid)");
        if (($user==TRUE) and ($userid==TRUE) and ($userfields==TRUE)) {
            header("Location: index.html");
        }
        if ($redirect=="yes") {
            $board=str_replace("admin/config.php","index.php",$config);
            print "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;URL=".$board."'>";
        }
    mysql_close($connect);
    }
}

?>

Try that, tell me if it works. I simply modified some things from the original code.

[WEForums]

I got a parse error.

http://www.weforums.com/quickreg3.php

Only thing I changed was...

forum/admin/config.php

to

forums/admin/config.php