Registration must be approved by admin

[another_angel]

I was wondering if there is a way to add code that will not allow registrations to become active until the admin approves them?

Thanks,
Angel

[Joachim Müller]

you can require verification emails to be sent in coppermine config, and then modify the confirmation email to be sent to you (the admin) insted of the user. Edit register.php, find

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if (!cpg_mail($email, sprintf($lang_register_php['confirm_email_subject'], $CONFIG['gallery_name']), strtr($lang_register_confirm_email, $template_vars))) {
            cpg_die(CRITICAL_ERROR, $lang_register_php['failed_sending_email'], __FILE__, __LINE__);and change to

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if (!cpg_mail($CONFIG['gallery_admin_email'], sprintf($lang_register_php['confirm_email_subject'], $CONFIG['gallery_name']), strtr($lang_register_confirm_email, $template_vars))) {
            cpg_die(CRITICAL_ERROR, $lang_register_php['failed_sending_email'], __FILE__, __LINE__);
You (as admin) will then be sent the confrmation mail, you can activate the user by clicking on the link inside the email.

GauGau

[raromachine]

Ah perfect - I was going to start hacking a far more complicated system - I must have been feeling mad.

Is there any chance this will become a switchable feature on the config screen?
It's sometimes nice to limit registration to a small and known community.

r.

[Nibbler]

You can already have notification mails sent to you when people register, and you can activate users manually in the user manager page by editing them. Imho this hardcoding method is less convenient than the already existing setup.

[Joachim Müller]

I'm currently making my mind up how to integrate admin-approved membership into the next coppermine version, as it's a feature that gets reuqested rather often. Not sure yet which method to chose, but then there will be some time untill the next version will be released - so don't hold your breath .

Joachim

[raromachine]

Breath not held - well, slightly held.

In the end I hacked the registration page to:

Send and email to the Admin with auth code,
Send an email to the user saying thanks and please be patient,

Allow the Admin to approve when logged in, and
Send a email to the user on approval.

Horribly messy - but it has worked in all cases!

Coppermine is great

[syedali]

Hey GauGau I know I've personally asked this quite a few times let alone comment on anyone else who post anything related to this, but I was wondering if you can do the same thing like we see on Forums nowadays, when you register. It mails you telling that the profile has yet to be approved by the admin and then sends you an "account activated" link. You can checkout www.jaltheband.com where I registered and went "oh hey why cant we do that in coppermine"

[Joachim Müller]

as I already wrote two postings earlier, this is being considered. I know the usual options bbs apps offer, and it will be something similar.

Joachim

[ElCool]

Well, at least I now control the activation

but.... in the email, the users password appears...
I don't think this is very good, ( It could be benefitial in a way, lol.... but I don't think I should know those passwords)
where do I edit what goes out in that email?

*edit....
ookk.... I don't think this is much of a purpose anyway.... since, I can see the passwords in the sql database

I think for the future, you should fix this.... encrypt the password stored in the database....im a good admin, but people can do stuff with it...

[Joachim Müller]

this has been discussed before and will be changed for paranoid coppermine admins in future versions (although there's little point in this, as admin is always king), please don't hijack this thread - instead: search the board for the discussion on md5 encryption of passwords in the db.

Joachim