E-mail login confirmation
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:37 am
I don't know what to call this as I don't know what it is referenced by, I have a MySQl database up and running with a login system but as the members don't need to pay anything to join up I would like to put some sort of security in place so any kids or otherwise can't just join up and then abuse the service for a laugh. I have come across somewhere "although I can't remember where" users of a service need to wait until the application sends them an e-mail to which they must reply so therefor validating the e-mail address the member used to sign up with and on replying their membership is enabled, what I don't know is how to put something like this in place, OK I can get the application to send an e-mail on the user joining up but hoe do I get the application to actnolage the reply and enable the membership? or maybe just give me some idea of what this is called so I can do a search to get some information on it, it would be good if this was or could be done with php..
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.