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I've search for over an hour for this and either I'm not getting the right keyword or it hasn't been addressed. Since we send the username and password in the registration email. I would also like to send a link that will log them in and send the straight to their Profile and suggest that they change their password. Then they will most likely fill in the rest of the profile. Has anyone done this?

Logging in is done through a POST request, but clicking on a link results in a GET request, so that won't work. What you could do: Provide a link to a page that offers a login form and redirects them to their profile page once they've logged in. All the code you would need for such a script could be lifted from users.php. bye, Dirk

Ok I think I'm following you in that you can't pass the infomation in the link URL. So they will still have to enter their information on the initial page right?

Yes, they will have to enter their login information. bye, Dirk

If I'm going to create a form are you sure there is no way to get that information for that form then do the redirect?

Everything I can think of is so insecure that you don't really want to do it, believe me ... What's the problem with people having to type in their login information? You could increase the default cookie timeout to a year for them, so they only have to do it once per year. bye, Dirk

I was more refering to the very first time after we send them their new password. I just thought it would be convienient to send them straight to their profile with a link in the email. Then they could change their password and updated the intormation. There are sites that do it that way for instance a php forum that I visit. They send you an email with a link to a new post. You click the link and it takes you right to that post. No biggie it was just a JeeWiz kind of thing.