Prior Verification during Registration?

[dcpaq2xx]

Greetings everyone,

I am looking for a way to prevent user accounts from being created during the registration process until the registrant enters in valid information in either a profile field or a custom field entry on the registration page. I do not want the persons account to be created until they enter this valid info and it has been verified as being VALID.

Just letting them enter anything and the account being created is not good enough.

An example of what I am looking for would be llike a site that issues out serial numbers or license numbers such as Vbuletin.com to people who purchase a license or serial number, they would need to enter their valid license or serial number into a profile field or a custom question field that would check a database table or data storage location to verifiy before they can proceed or submit their registration request in Vbulletin.

Anyone know if this is currently possible in Vbulletin by adjusting the settings in the VB admin cp?

Doug

[Bradley_Wint]

What criteria do you want to require as being valid?

[dcpaq2xx]

Bradley thank you for replying.

I would like to include License Number Issued, Date, Email Address Licensed To, Name, Address, Phone Number, Website Address URL.

Also what would be excellent is to have a setting right inside the admin cp that would allow me to let specific moderators, or admins access to this so that they can add additional or new content to the database for this feature. We have also discussed the option or ability of Vbulletin accessing a remote server using a SOAP API to gather the required data.

Also Id like to explain this feature a little bit further in detail to help understanding of the 'requirements'. What we are looking to accomplish is that we want to reserve our message board for only valid license holders of a specific product/program and would like to have an easy way to control access to the forums by restricting them from even making it past the registration page unless they can provide us with a valid license number or serial number that would be checked against a specific database table (a new table would be created if needed) or somewhere that the list of issued serial numbers or licenses would be stored before letting the person click on the "Submit" button on the registration page.

Doug