Membership login - admin approval?

Hi Nigel,

There are a couple of options here.

The first thing you'll need to do is change the signup script so that the "disabled" field is checked by default. This would stop someone from logging in even if they had the password. It will also make it easy for admins to identify which accounts need to be approved. After that, you should remove the code that sends the email.

Next, you have a couple of options:
1) When an admin approves an account (ie, changes disabled from checked to unchecked), they create a new password for the user, and manually email them.

2) We write a custom plugin that when the account is approved, a new random password is generated and emailed to the user.

If you are interested in the second options, please email consulting@interactivetools.com to go over options.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice, Jason. I'll try the option #1 first.

Cheers,

Hi, Jason.

One other thing: There's a button in the far right of the main navigation that says "Login": http://www.globalmedelite.com/. Is there a way of replacing this with a "Log out" button when the members are already logged in? I would create a replacement graphic, of course, but how do I get it to appear instead, so users don't see the Login button when they've already done so?

Cheers,

Hi Nigel,

Sure, what you can do is have an if statement that looks for the existence of the $CURRENT_USER variable.

For example:

<?php if ($CURRENT_USER): ?>
// code/HTML for when a person is logged in
<?php else: ?>
// code/HTML for when a person is not logged in.
<?php endif ?>

Hope this helps

Hi Nigel,

Sorry I didn't see your post earlier.

I send a password only after a member is approval for an organization I work with, and I've documented the process and code in my CMSB Cookbook thecmsbcookbook.com. in a recipe called IMPLEMENTING THE (CORRECTED) EMAILONAPPROVED PLUGIN WITH THE WEBSITE MEMBERSHIP PLUGIN (ENCRYPTED PASSWORDS).

Jerry Kornbluth