Post first, ask questions later?

[skippybosco]

I am trying to configure VBulletin so that an anonymous user user can begin the posting process and get to the point of pushing submit before being prompted to login / register.

Obviously I would want to maintain the message through registration and it would be posted once complete (assuming I don't use email validation)

Did a bit of searching through the forums and code to no avail..

Anyone have any thoughts or similar needs?

[s0lidgr0und]

A guest isn't assigned a userid, so I don't know how you'd expect a message to stay assigned to that specific user after registration.

[Lynne]

But everyone is assigned a sessionid, so he might be able to do something with that.

[skippybosco]

Today with VB post data is retained locally on the client which allows the use of the back button in your browser to retain field information via browser history. Assuming a site was not using secondary verification (ie. email verification) I'm assuming you should be able to use the local cache of the message.

[skippybosco]

I dug into this a bit and it is seems like most of the hooks are already there..

1. Logged into VB, I opened the site in 2 tabs (firefox)
2. I began posting in my first tab and logged out in my second tab
3. When I pushed submit on my first tab it prompted me to log in or register.
4. If I logged in my message is posted

So it seems there is some code in the login process that checks whether you are in process of submitting something and if so submits it after log in is complete.

This workflow would need to be added to the end of the registration process. This obviously gets a bit complicated if you have email verification enabled for registration, but if not this may be possible?

Any ideas?

[skippybosco]

bump..

still looking for a way to do this if anyone has any ideas?