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New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:35 pm
by stmark
It's been asked before - but never answered - so I'll try yet again.
The standard 1.5 stable has no means to allow or require admin (or other) approval / verification before a user is allowed to login to a site - that is - after they get their verification email, all one has to do is click and then login to the site. It would be just absolutely fantastic if the admin - besides being notified of a new user - could actually approve or deny an application for registration.
So, if anyone knows of a good hack to make this happen PLEASE let me and others know.
Please note: Community Builder may very well be a nice solution to this - some day - but it is soooo buggy right now that it has nearly put me over the edge trying to get it to play nice with 1.5 stable. [The main problem is that even though user registration is turned off in global config, there are times when it reverts to native user registration and ignores CB registration - Especially during logout - Give it a try if you feel you have the stamina to deal.
Anyway, any advice is appreciated in advance.
StMark
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:06 pm
by rufhausen
I was trying to this as well. My imperfect solution was to:
a. turn on 'receive system emails' so I'd be notified of registrations.
b. comment out the following line in /componets/com_user/controller.php: JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
(it's around line 518). This so the activation email is never sent.
c. make sure 'New User Account Activation' is set to yes.
This allowed users to register, notify me, and leaves their account status as disabled until I enable it, since they never get the activation link.
The downside is they don't get an automated email letting them know their account is active.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:27 pm
by stmark
Thanks rufhausen !
That sounds like a reasonable solution / workaround.
Another thing I have done is to have a Login page (I changed Main Menu Home to Login / with and article) that explains the login process. I suppose I could let users know that I will send them an email to let them know when they are approved.
I do like the idea / potential of Community Builder, but, as I mentioned before, It just drove me crazy trying to hack it to work with 1.5 stable. Who knows? Maybe they'll get a 1.5 version out so we don't have to "hack" all this code.
Thanks again,
StMark
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:58 am
by nettemor
Thank you for this workaround, i also need this functionallity and using CB will be "overkill" for my site.
Do you know where/which file i can change the text that are presented to the user when he/she is registered at the site?
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:30 am
by stmark
nettemor wrote:Thank you for this workaround, i also need this functionallity and using CB will be "overkill" for my site.Do you know where/which file i can change the text that are presented to the user when he/she is registered at the site?
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You can change the pre and post login form text from the admin panel under Extensions - Module Manager. Then open the "login" module and edit or add a message (on the right side of the screen).
I haven't tried it, but you may also be able to edit the "language" file for the module. It would be something like -- ...your site files/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_login.ini (using the english language). Or, it may be somewhere in your template file ?? not sure. I use the beez template and there is a file html /mod_login / default.php.
Hope this helps.
Stmark
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:38 am
by nettemor
Thank you :-)
I changed the text in the language file as you mention, - works great!.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:44 am
by user deleted
Moderator note: moving from Security to Administration
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:21 pm
by Snomon
rufhausen wrote:I was trying to this as well. My imperfect solution was to:
a. turn on 'receive system emails' so I'd be notified of registrations.
b. comment out the following line in /componets/com_user/controller.php: JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
(it's around line 518).
Update:
If you are using v1.5.1, you will want to comment that code on Line
501. If you comment out the same code at Line 514 it will disable the mail sent to Super Admin.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:45 am
by willcom
Please help
I was really looking forward to doing this, but I'm on 1.5.7 and the code has changed and I'm no expert! Please could you update which line I should be looking for, as the line in 499 (similar/same as the one mentioned doesn't stop the email coming through to the user.
Thanks in advance
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:42 am
by Antonimo
I just commented out this line in 1.5.7 at line number 509
An additional though is to also edit the line in the language file (en-GB.com_user.ini, for example) that shows the message after registration application. Obviously, the registrant will not be receiving an activation e-mail so line 90:
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REG_COMPLETE_ACTIVATE=Your account has been created and an activation link has been sent to the e-mail address you entered. Note that you must activate the account by clicking on the activation link when you get the e-mail before you can login.
should be edited according to your policy.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:20 am
by Antonimo
Another solution to the problem:
Do not make the changes to
/componets/com_user/controller.php as mentioned above.
Instead, change the line 117 in the language file :
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SEND_MSG_ACTIVATE=Hello %s,\n\nThank you for registering at %s. Your account is created and must be activated before you can use it.\nTo activate the account click on the following link or copy-paste it in your browser:\n%s\n\nAfter activation you may login to %s using the following username and password:\n\nUsername: %s\nPassword: %s
to contain the e-mail message that the registrant will receive. Something along the lines of, "
Your application has been received is is currently under review. You will receive an e-mail when the registration process is complete. In the meantime, please enjoy browsing through the public areas of our site at:"
After this, go to the file
/componets/com_user/controller.php and edit line 489 from:
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$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACTIVATE' ), $name, $sitename, $siteURL."index.php?option=com_user&task=activate&activation=".$user->get('activation'), $siteURL, $username, $password);
to
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$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACTIVATE' ), $name, $sitename, $siteURL."index.php", $siteURL, $username, $password);
This change will only include a link to the first page of your website without the activation code appended so the registrant cannot activate the registration.
Both applicant and admin receive the e-mails and the admin can then approve or disapprove as required.
I have further tweaked the file
/componets/com_user/controller.php on line 520 from:
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$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ADMIN' ), $row->name, $sitename, $name, $email, $username);
to:
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$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ADMIN' ), $row->name, $siteURL."index.php?option=com_user&task=activate&activation=".$user->get('activation'), $name, $email, $username);
This sends the activation link (that was removed from the applicant's e-mail above) to the admin, thereby giving the admin a "one click" activation from the e-mail notification.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:37 pm
by ArielZusya
First, thank you so much for this valuable information. I've followed the instructions and they work like a charm. I am very new to joomla and am just starting to get the hang of things. In addition to the instructions you gave, I also went in to the
/componets/com_user/controller.php and changed a piece of
function register_save(). Specifically on line 278 I changed:
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$this->setRedirect('index.php', $message);
to point to a specific article which has a message verifying that the request for an account was sent and that an email was sent to the user and if they don't receive an email they should send an email letting us know. Now when a user registers and clicks the Register button after filling in the form, instead of being sent back to the frontpage they are sent to my verification message page. In addition, the changed message (per your helpful instructions) went out to the user and the activation link went to the administrator. All of that is working really well. Thanks again!
What I'd like to know is, is there an easy way to automatically send a message to the user when the account is activated? Before these changes, when the user activated themselves, they knew the account had been activated because they saw the verification of activation message on their screen. Now, because the administrator is activating the account, the user doesn't get that feedback. I'd like to have the administrator see the verification page confirming activation but I'd like to have an email simultaneously sent to the user letting them know the administrator has activated their account. How do I do that? I assume I need to add some code to
function activate() but I'm not sure if that's right nor what code I would add. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:08 pm
by london_lhr
Hi all,
Complete Joomla Newbie/Dummy here. This thread has answered all but one question that I wanted to ask also.
I was going to ask the exact question that was asked in the title of the thread. My application is for a club and verification of membership is necessary by Admin against a club membership number issued to the member before registration on the club website is accepted to keep certain areas members only.
The question I have is, is it possible to add a field in the registration template whereby when the person registering all their details also has to input their Club Membership number? I am sure there is a way to edit some file but I unfortunately do not have the experience/expertise for doing that. Your help will be much appreciated.
It would be nice if this membership number could be automatically verified against a database but to me that sounds very complicated. Just inputting the one field will already be be a great help!
Thank you.
LHR.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:27 pm
by Antonimo
To ArielZusya,
In addition to the instructions you gave, I also went in to the /componets/com_user/controller.php and changed a piece of function register_save(). Specifically on line 278 I changed:
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$this->setRedirect('index.php', $message);
to point to a specific article which has a message verifying that the request for an account was sent and that an email was sent to the user and if they don't receive an email they should send an email letting us know
Thanks for the additional info - very useful.
What I'd like to know is, is there an easy way to automatically send a message to the user when the account is activated?
I am going to have to look into this one as I don't know the answer but I agree that it would be very useful
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To london_lhr,
There are a number of posts that deal with adding fields to the registration form.
If you have not found them, I shall be making a post to the forum within a day or two with a fairly complete and detailed guide to the process. In the meantime, you can PM me to get a copy of the guide before I post it.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:48 pm
by ArielZusya
To Antonimo
Antonimo wrote:What I'd like to know is, is there an easy way to automatically send a message to the user when the account is activated?
I am going to have to look into this one as I don't know the answer but I agree that it would be very useful
I think I have an idea of where this needs to go. I'm just stuck on one little
if ... then statement. Let me tell you where I'm going and see if you can help me get there. Here's what I've got so far. First I added another couple of message text strings to the language file
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_user.ini:
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SEND_MSG_ADMIN_ACTIVATE=Hello, %s,\n\nthe account with username %s has had been activated.
SEND_MSG_ACTIVATED=Hello, %s,\n\nYour account with username %s has been activated.
Then I went into the
function activate() and added a call to the email function (somewhere around line 339):
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UserController::_sendMail($user, $password);
So far so good. My last step is to modify the
function _sendMail(&$user, $password) (which starts around line 469) with some
if ... then statements that test whether the user is already activated. If activated, send the user an email that says, "User, your account is activated" and send the admins an email that says, "user's acount is activated" but I'm struggling with how to test for that. I can change:
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function _sendMail(&$user, $password)
{
global $mainframe;
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$name = $user->get('name');
$email = $user->get('email');
$username = $user->get('username');
$usersConfig = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'com_users' );
$sitename = $mainframe->getCfg( 'sitename' );
$useractivation = $usersConfig->get( 'useractivation' );
$mailfrom = $mainframe->getCfg( 'mailfrom' );
$fromname = $mainframe->getCfg( 'fromname' );
$siteURL = JURI::base();
$subject = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account details for' ), $name, $sitename);
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject, ENT_QUOTES);
if ( $useractivation == 1 ){
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACTIVATE' ), $name, $sitename);
} else {
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG' ), $name, $sitename, $siteURL);
}
$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES);
//get all super administrator
$query = 'SELECT name, email, sendEmail' .
' FROM #__users' .
' WHERE LOWER( usertype ) = "super administrator"';
$db->setQuery( $query );
$rows = $db->loadObjectList();
// Send email to user
if ( ! $mailfrom || ! $fromname ) {
$fromname = $rows[0]->name;
$mailfrom = $rows[0]->email;
}
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
// Send notification to all administrators
$subject2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account details for' ), $name, $sitename);
$subject2 = html_entity_decode($subject2, ENT_QUOTES);
// get superadministrators id
foreach ( $rows as $row )
{
if ($row->sendEmail)
{
$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ADMIN' ), $row->name, $siteURL."index.php?option=com_user&task=activate&activation=".$user->get('activation'), $name, $email, $username);
$message2 = html_entity_decode($message2, ENT_QUOTES);
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);
}
}
}
to:
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function _sendMail(&$user, $password)
{
global $mainframe;
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$name = $user->get('name');
$email = $user->get('email');
$username = $user->get('username');
$usersConfig = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'com_users' );
$sitename = $mainframe->getCfg( 'sitename' );
$useractivation = $usersConfig->get( 'useractivation' );
$mailfrom = $mainframe->getCfg( 'mailfrom' );
$fromname = $mainframe->getCfg( 'fromname' );
$siteURL = JURI::base();
$subject = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account details for' ), $name, $sitename);
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject, ENT_QUOTES);
if (<INSERT MY TEST STATEMENT HERE>){
if ( $useractivation == 1 ){
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACTIVATE' ), $name, $sitename);
} else {
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG' ), $name, $sitename, $siteURL);
}
} else {
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACTIVATED' ), $name, $username, $sitename);
}
}
$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES);
//get all super administrator
$query = 'SELECT name, email, sendEmail' .
' FROM #__users' .
' WHERE LOWER( usertype ) = "super administrator"';
$db->setQuery( $query );
$rows = $db->loadObjectList();
// Send email to user
if ( ! $mailfrom || ! $fromname ) {
$fromname = $rows[0]->name;
$mailfrom = $rows[0]->email;
}
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
// Send notification to all administrators
$subject2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account details for' ), $name, $sitename);
$subject2 = html_entity_decode($subject2, ENT_QUOTES);
// get superadministrators id
foreach ( $rows as $row )
{
if (<INSERT MY TEST STATEMENT HERE>){
if ($row->sendEmail)
{
$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ADMIN' ), $row->name, $siteURL."index.php?option=com_user&task=activate&activation=".$user->get('activation'), $name, $email, $username);
$message2 = html_entity_decode($message2, ENT_QUOTES);
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);
}
} else {
if ($row->sendEmail)
{
$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ADMIN_ACTIVATE' ), $row->name, $name);
$message2 = html_entity_decode($message2, ENT_QUOTES);
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);
}
}
}
}
but I'm struggling to figure out what to put in place of
<INSERT MY TEST STATEMENT HERE>. Am I on the right track? Do you have any suggestions of how to achieve this end? I'm guessing it's simple but I just don't know enough about joomla to get this right. Your assistance is great appreacited! Thanks again!
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:00 am
by london_lhr
Thank you Antonimo. I have in the meantime also found some other posts and am looking forward to your post.
LHR.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:19 am
by london_lhr
Hello Antonimo,
unfortunately I cannot PM as I do not have >5 posts.
Regards,
LHR.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:56 pm
by ozinm
ArielZusya wrote:To Antonimo
Antonimo wrote:What I'd like to know is, is there an easy way to automatically send a message to the user when the account is activated?
I am going to have to look into this one as I don't know the answer but I agree that it would be very useful
I think I have an idea of where this needs to go. I'm just stuck on one little
if ... then statement. Let me tell you where I'm going and see if you can help me get there. Here's what I've got so far. First I added another couple of message text strings to the language file
language\en-GB\en-GB.com_user.ini:
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SEND_MSG_ADMIN_ACTIVATE=Hello, %s,\n\nthe account with username %s has had been activated.
SEND_MSG_ACTIVATED=Hello, %s,\n\nYour account with username %s has been activated.
Then I went into the
function activate() and added a call to the email function (somewhere around line 339):
Code: Select all
UserController::_sendMail($user, $password);
So far so good. My last step is to modify the
function _sendMail(&$user, $password) (which starts around line 469) with some
if ... then statements that test whether the user is already activated. If activated, send the user an email that says, "User, your account is activated" and send the admins an email that says, "user's acount is activated" but I'm struggling with how to test for that.
SNIP-TEXT
First a quick caveat, I'm not a PHP coder (VB I'm afraid) but I've just looked up the function definition syntax and think this would do:
How about editing the email function definition to include an optional arg?
Something like:
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function _sendMail(&$user, $password, , $useractiviated=0)
{
you could then create an if statement to test for $useractiviated==1
As $useractiviated is an option argument is shouldn't mess anything up where the parameter isn't passed.
In function activate() you should then be able to call sendMail with this new argument.
Hope this makes some sort of sense.
Would love to hear how you get on.
All the best
M.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:07 pm
by ozinm
BTW
I found this:
http://www.prodevtips.com/2007/10/18/jo ... istration/
Which might be useful if some nice chap wanted to convert the core hack into a seperate component.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:05 pm
by eli_cook
ArielZusya - I followed the steps above and like you also needed to have reply emails sent back after activation - there probably is a much easier way of doing this (like you have pointed out adding the if statements to the current sendmail function). But I needed this right away. Here is what I did to get an email sent upon activation.
The first problem I ran into is that upon activation the user fields are looked up in another file and they weren't being returned to the controller.php file so I edited the function activate() section of controller.php file located under components/com_user/
STEP 1:
Under Line 331 ---- jimport('joomla.user.helper');
I added
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$db = & JFactory::getDBO();
// Lets get the id of the user we want to send mail to
$query = 'SELECT id'
. ' FROM #__users'
. ' WHERE activation = '.$db->Quote($activation);
;
$db->setQuery( $query );
$id = intval( $db->loadResult() );
STEP 2:
Then under line 351 ----- $message->text = JText::_( 'REG_ACTIVATE_COMPLETE' );
I added
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UserController::_sendactivatedMail($id);
STEP 3:
Then I copied the sendmail function, pasted it near the end of the file before the last }?> and renamed the function to sendactivatedMail - I did this because I wanted to use a different subject, body - etc and did not know where / how to add that if statement you had mentioned. I also added some items like the callout to fill in the user information from the $id variable that was passed. This is MY edited code after the copy paste.
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function _sendactivatedMail(&$id)
{
global $mainframe;
$db = & JFactory::getDBO();
// gets the users information
$user =& JUser::getInstance( (int) $id );
$name = $user->get('name');
$email = $user->get('email');
$username = $user->get('username');
$usersConfig = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'com_users' );
$sitename = $mainframe->getCfg( 'sitename' );
$useractivation = $usersConfig->get( 'useractivation' );
$mailfrom = $mainframe->getCfg( 'mailfrom' );
$fromname = $mainframe->getCfg( 'fromname' );
$siteURL = JURI::base();
$fromname = "Name of Person";
$mailfrom = "[email protected]";
$subject = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account activated for' ), $name);
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject, ENT_QUOTES);
$message = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_MSG_ACCTACTIVATED' ), $name, $siteURL."index.php");
$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES);
//get all super administrator
$query = 'SELECT name, email, sendEmail' .
' FROM #__users' .
' WHERE LOWER( usertype ) = "super administrator"';
$db->setQuery( $query );
$rows = $db->loadObjectList();
// Send email to user
if ( ! $mailfrom || ! $fromname ) {
$fromname = $rows[0]->name;
$mailfrom = $rows[0]->email;
}
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
// Send notification to all administrators
$subject2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'Account activated for' ), $name);
$subject2 = html_entity_decode($subject2, ENT_QUOTES);
// get superadministrators id
foreach ( $rows as $row )
{
if ($row->sendEmail)
{
$message2 = sprintf ( JText::_( 'SEND_ADMINMSG_ACCTACTIVATED' ), $row->name, $name);
$message2 = html_entity_decode($message2, ENT_QUOTES);
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);
}
}
}
I believe those are the only changes I made to the controller.php file -
STEP 4:
I also edited the en-GB.com_user.ini file located under language/en-GB/en-GB.com_user.ini
I added
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SEND_MSG_ACCTACTIVATED=Hello %s,\nYour account has been successfully activated you may now log in at %s.\n\nThank you for your support.
SEND_ADMINMSG_ACCTACTIVATED=Hello %s, \n%s's account has been sucessfully activated.\n\nPlease do not respond to this message. It is automatically generated and is for information purposes only.
ACCOUNT ACTIVATED FOR=Account has been activated for %s
After that I was able to activate an account and the resulting user's email address would be emailed as well as all of the super adminstrators of the system who's accounts are set to recieve system emails.
Hope this helps and it has been a couple of days since I have done this so if you have any troubles or if someone has a suggestion on how to make it better please let me know.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:04 pm
by bibichris
I'm going crazy to understand how to make work this on joomla 1.0. Can anybody help me please??
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:55 am
by eli_cook
The changes that I made were to a Joomla 1.5.7 installation. I'm not sure that they will work for a 1.0.x install.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:05 am
by bibichris
Thanks eli_cook.
By the way, in joomla 1.5 the file is controller.php, which is the file where the input to send the mail is? Is the admin.users.php maybe?
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:52 pm
by eli_cook
Thanks eli_cook.
By the way, in joomla 1.5 the file is controller.php, which is the file where the input to send the mail is? Is the admin.users.php maybe?
JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);
Is one of the call outs that send the email using the parameters you have passed it.
I'm not sure what you mean by
which is the file where the input to send the mail is?
There is a language file that details the language, STEP 4 is where this is located.
There is nothing an admin will "input" as all of this takes place during the user registration.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:51 pm
by bibichris
Thanks Eli. I just came out of this with a help from an expert friend.
She made something in file ps_shopper.php which was the responsible one (the website is joomla 1.0.15 and virtuemart 1.0.15) and now, the activation email, instead to be sent to the new user, is sent to the admnistrator who can activate easily right away from the email and forward the same email with the password to the new user once is done.
I attach the file here, so if someone has the same problem arrives here, can just upload it in administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ and solve the problem! (to change the subjects go to line 439 and 440)
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:22 am
by christofff
I can't help thinking this topic should be stickied or made into a gold statue.
I've been ploughed my way through & got it working after a few minor tweaks (oversights on my part).
Is this in the docs.joomla thing? Certainly should be.
A prime example of Open Source thinking & collaboration.
Thanks to all involved.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:43 pm
by airton
I'd like to give my peace of help here.
I already implemented this feature in all the sites I run. Thanks to all who spent time into this.
Nevertheless, the method presented here is a core hack, which isn't the most elegant way. So, I used it in a 3pd extension and got the same result with a plus that is the ability to use captcha in my user forms. The extension is aUserManager from Alikonweb. I used the component for the tweaking and the module plus the captcha plugin to gain the captcha feature.
Thanks again, guys!
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:49 pm
by christofff
@airton - Agreed. And the first issue came as soon as I upgraded to 1.5.9 as my edits were overwritten on some files.
Thanks for the tip.
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:00 am
by gffb
How about using Community Builder
Re: New User Approval - by Admin - or others
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:15 pm
by airton
gffb wrote:How about using Community Builder
CB has a lot of the features that are missing in the core, specifically talking about users, roles and rights, but in many cases it's overkill. Why have all that if all you need is a means for the admin to approve a new user?