This problem can be solved with two approaches the way i see it.

First Display the email address in big red letters on the confirmation screen so the user will surely see it mistyped and correct it by going back. This is a quick hack that requires very little change to code. Unfortunaly you still get those people that are internet illiterate and barely use email. My friend who runs and internet company had this problem. There is nothing you can do except to manualy check unactivated accounts and possibly guess what the spelling error is. You can even Im them if they provided that.

Second do not require email activation. Unless your website is designed to be specificaly for annonymity like mp3 downloading (just hypothetical) I dont think that you would want anyone signing up anyway without a valid email account. Some people are that boared and will make fake accounts. The quality of your comunity goes down if people are making bunch of different account for themselves in order to have multiple identities or they might never come to your site again after signing up.

What would be real cool if there was a admin setting like 1-require email activation 2-activate immediatly 3-activate manualy by admins. That requires a bit of a redesign to the system and it would be up to the developers of XOOPS to decide if they want to put effort into that. Most communities would choose you to have a valid email.

I would like to add

perhaps have a second page which displays what the user has entered. Let him review if all info are correct, if they are, then press 'submit' , if not, go back and correct or correct rite there before submitting.

also, some people use an incorrect email on purpose just sign up for something.

it would be cool to have a message stating that must be a valid email because an activation will be send to that email

this might reduce mistyped or purposeful intent

Hello All,

I have experience with a several hundred registered users on my XOOPS site now. My site is geared to the general public, so my users are not "technical" users. I just wanted to share the 2 most common problems I have with registrations and my suggestions for improvements in future XOOPS releases...

1. Wrong email address entered. This is the biggest problem. For some reason, a lot of people enter the wrong email address. Sometimes they precede it with www like www.name@domain.com. Or sometimes the just leave out a letter or two.

Probably if there was a "verify email" field on the registration form, like with passwords, the number of email address typos could be reduced.

2. Many of my users use AOL. The link in emails from XOOPS does not work in the AOL email program. This should be checked out and fixed. This applies to activation emails and forgot password emails.

I realize that you could just copy and paste the link into a browser, but a small fraction of my users even have problems doing that.

Tried this hack on my site, but still having problems with users on Windows XP computers. Looks like their being logged in, but when the news page comes up again, they're not logged in.

How do you measure where line forty is from the start of the code or from the top of the page? Is it right after that other list of defines?

Thank you But the XOOPS devs deserve most of the credit; I just copied modified their code. When I saw there was a new post in this thread, I was hoping for some news on a reviews module, but this is also nice

Herko

Quote:Ah but Herko that was then. Now that module hack you mentioned is a fully fledge hack in distribution. and to you congratulations and you also Keep it up.

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Thanks for your information. I got an answer, but a solution at last...

as usual, just copy the content of "html" folder on your root, it will overwrite only 1 file (edituser.php)

to MaxIT,

thanks for sharing your hack, yet could u write the installation in Eng?

cuz i really don't know any italian!!
:p