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My custom user registration is not working now that i am using 1.4 I did not change anything from my previous version. Is anyone else that is using 1.4.0 having this problem, because currently i use 1.3.11 on my site, but am testing 1.4 here and it is not sending out the email with the password while using the custom registration. When i switch back to regular registration the emails are sent no problem.

What i am basically trying to accomplish is custom registration with captcha, BUT also including this HACK to choose your password right there and be able to log in once you submit all the correct info instead of having to wait for a confirmation email. This way captcha prevents spam bots, and not using an email confirmation avoids our emails getting lost in spam filters plus allows people to login right away and access our content. Idealy information submited upon registration should be kept as a "temporary user" until they confirm their email address with maybe an annoying center block reminding them as the browse the site. Any one help on this one.... seems pretty complicated.

I've done a number of custom membership projects for clients includng CAPTCHA and have posted/contributed several examples but this feature is called custom for a reason and requires some PHP and mysql experience.

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yeah... well i actually have a good deal of experience with PHP/MySQL and like i said custom registration was working on my 1.3.11 version. I looked at the example provided in the downloads section and followed the structure exactly so there should be no problems... all the data gets inserted in the database upon registration, but the EMAIL is never sent to them with password... so i do not think that has anything to do with the custom registration code in the lib-custom file. Besides this problem what i want to accomplish with the registration process would require hacking geeklog core files i believe to make it work.

Which status do the new users have after creation? Check from the Admin's user editor. They should have status "awaiting activation" (before they first logged in). If they have some other status, that is the problem ...

bye, Dirk

yeah it still says awaiting activation

How does custom registration handle sending the new user a password? does it come from users.php? I guess that would be the problem because i dont see any functions in the custom code to send out emails.

Custom registration only offers you some hooks to plug your own code into (for changing the registration form, adding more information at signup, performing extra checks). The actual account creation and sending of the email with the password is still done by Geeklog.

bye, Dirk