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Beev

Beev

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I'm looking to set up a chat room on the site I run. I would like it to be login based so that users have to make accounts (that I have to activate). I really don't even know where to start. Would it be possible to link the users to their forum logins?
 
I would think it would be possible to link them to their forum logins. Once a user is logged into the forum, store the fact that the user is logged in using a cookie or session variable, so when the user navigates to the chat page the scripting checks the session variable/cookie and if the user is logged in, bypasses the login screen and goes to the chat.

For a user with no account, create a form for the user's information (login name they wish to use, password, anything else you might want). Upon submittal of the form, the information gets inserted into a database table. Have a field called, for example, "activated" that gets set initially to False/0. If a user tries to login and this field is False/0, then they get an error message saying something like "The site administrator has not yet activated your account". This way they cannot login until you update that field with True/1. You could have some sort of admin form that displays any non-activated accounts where you can check to active them, and at the same time send an email to the user letting them know their account has been activated.
 
I'm really not that advanced 😱 I have very little idea as to what you just said...
 
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