Desperately need..

  • Resolved trevorNanders

    (@trevornanders)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    An additional ‘confirm email address’ field in the registration form. A number of times I have had foolish users enter an incorrect email address and then NEVER get their activation email is ridiculous. This is obviously not a failing of Ulitmate Member but there really does need to be a 2nd ‘enter email again’ box to stop this problem.
    If/when someone enters a wrong email, they don;t get the activation and I have to spend a lot of time resetting accounts (as there is no easy way to resend activations or reset or anything on WordPress – another failing of WordPress IMO).

    Please consider this for inclusion in a future UM update.

    thank

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  • borisv

    (@borisv)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Of course there should be one (a confirmation email field).

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by borisv.
    Thread Starter trevorNanders

    (@trevornanders)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Surely it wouldn’t be hard to implement? even if it were possible to create an ’email validation’ via edit forms.

    borisv

    (@borisv)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    The real question is, is this necessary? If the UM registration form is HTML5 then there is no need to check if the user’s input is a valid email or url address.

    Now if you allow them to auto-approve, then maybe that’s a problem…

    Thread Starter trevorNanders

    (@trevornanders)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    I’m not talking about a ‘valid’ email, I’m talking about a user inputting their own email incorrectly and registering with an incorrect email address thus never getting their activation email.

    I mean a 2nd email input field that checks the two email fields agree with each other and thows a warning ’emails don’t match’ error.

    verysiberian

    (@verysiberian)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    You should be able to tweak this sample code to suit your purpose:

    http://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/68-stop-registration-if-customercode-field-does-not-equal-abcde

    Best regards,
    Rob

    borisv

    (@borisv)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Actually, that link to that code is useless unless the OP is well versed in cgi-php programming. To create what he wants to do would require modifying the code significantly and adding a new text field via UM form.

    I created one on a test site and as you can see the form would not allow me to submit the registration unless I correct the email address which does not match.

    Email Confirmation Field

    I wonder if anyone would like me to develop a plugin to add this type of field security check with easy instructions for implementation on UM?

    Best regards,

    verysiberian

    (@verysiberian)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, Boris V.

    Yes, the user needs to know some PHP to be able to apply the code in the link I sent.

    Yes, I’m sure that everyone would appreciate a plugin for this purpose if you would like to develop it.

    Have a good day,
    Rob

    Thread Starter trevorNanders

    (@trevornanders)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Brilliant! Thanks, Boris, this is EXACTLY what I was asking for. Works great too. Thanks again.

    p.s. I wonder if this email confirmation check could also help fight robot sign-ups and spam?

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