RE: Confirming users email address when they register

Hi again

I am trying to be clearest


On a JahiaPage I have a input Box that allow a user to enter an email.


<form method="post" action="<%=((PageBean)pageNewsletter).getJahiaPage().getURL(jParams)%>">
<input name="textfield" type="text" value="Votre email"/>
<input type="image" src="<%=theURL%>/images/cg_21/bt_ok.gif" style="width:21px;height:20px;padding : 2px;position:relative; top: 8px;border:0;" alt="ok"/>
</form>

This html code send the email to the page.
The page check if the email has a correct syntax.
To do that I use java regular expression.

<%String textfield =request.getParameter("textfield ");%>
chaineExprMail="^[a-zA-Z][\\w\\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\\w\\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\\.]*[a-zA-Z]$";
if (java.util.regex.Pattern.matches(chaineExprMail,textfield)) {		 		
				 	
Then you send an email by using the API java with a link to the validating page. 

<a href="<%=jData.params().getSiteURL(jData.page().getID(), false,false)%>?validateEmail=<%=texfield%>">validate</a>

The guy click on the link and send to the page the parameter. Then you catch this parameter.

<%String validateEmail =request.getParameter("validateEmail");%>


And you register the user in Jahia y using API.

JahiaUserManagerService <http://www.jahia.org/javadoc-dev/org/jahia/services/usermanager/JahiaUserManagerService.html> 


I do something like that but I use a database to store the email which is waiting validation. Then when the page receive a parameter I check if the user is in database.
Another point is that I encode the parameter to not allow a person to add lot of user by just writing an email in the URL.

I hope this will help you, do not hesitate to contact me today if you want more explanations, because I am going in holiday tomorrow.

Nicolas

For exemple : www.mySite.fr/jahia/Jahia/pid/XXX
Use the standard API Jahia

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Edd Dawson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Envoyé : vendredi 19 août 2005 12:32
À : [email protected]
Objet : Re: Confirming users email address when they register

Hi Nicolas

What you explain is exactly what I wish to acheive.

How complex was it to do? Any clues on how you acheived it would be 
really good :)

thanks
Edd

Nicolas Lafaury wrote:

>Hello
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>I don't understand exactly what you want to do?
>You mean in administration mode or the user register to the site with the HTML code then you check its email?
>
>I have createn a template to do simimlar things.
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>On a page the user enter his email.
>I check by regex if the syntax of the email is correct => 
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>chaineExprMail="^[a-zA-Z][\\w\\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\\w\\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\\.]*[a-zA-Z]$";
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>then I send an email to the customer with a link to a special page of my site.
>Ex: myJahiasite/.../pid/...?mail=monemailvalidating
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>When he click on this link, I register the User in Jahia.
>
>I hope this will help you.
>
>Nicolas
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Edd Dawson [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Envoyé : vendredi 19 août 2005 12:05
>À : [email protected]
>Objet : Confirming users email address when they register
>
>Hi Everyone
>
>Has anyone any experience of validating users email addresses who 
>register with a jahia site before activating their account..
>
>I am thinking by the usual method of emailing them a url to activate 
>meaning their account is locked until such a link is visited.
>
>Any idea on complexity of acheiving this with Jahia would be appreciated.
>
>cheers
>Edd
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