PHP script

LewisC_2 · 9 March 2007 at 2:52PM

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a PHP script that can do the following?

* Allow users to enter a username of their choice via a web form
* Randomly generate a password for the user and email it to them on form submission
* Store this information either in a MySQL database, or email the results to a storage address

Any help would be much appreciated, as I've spent the last hour and a half trawling around for one to no avail!

[Deleted User] · 9 March 2007 at 3:07PM

Sounds like it would only take a short while to write anyway, it's probably too small a task to warrant a script you can just download.

Wombat · 9 March 2007 at 3:37PM

You could try some of the free scripts here:http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/User_Management/index.html

Astaroth · 9 March 2007 at 3:47PM

Yup, very basic requirements. Any server side scripting language can do this.

LewisC_2 · 9 March 2007 at 4:08PM

Yep - had guessed it would be very basic, but then again so is my knowledge of PHP

Anybody able to give me a hand with getting something coded at all?

moneyuser · 9 March 2007 at 5:12PM

Put this

Generate Password

together with this

Send email

and create a form and with a little bit of tweaking you will get what you want

LewisC_2 · 12 March 2007 at 9:12AM

moneyuser wrote: »

Put this

Generate Password

together with this

Send email

and create a form and with a little bit of tweaking you will get what you want

Both links go to the same place!

As I mentioned before, my PHP knowledge is very basic, so I'm still none the wiser. Anyone?

THE_MIDDLEMAN · 12 March 2007 at 10:33AM

LewisC wrote: »

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a PHP script that can do the following?

* Allow users to enter a username of their choice via a web form
* Randomly generate a password for the user and email it to them on form submission
* Store this information either in a MySQL database, or email the results to a storage address

Any help would be much appreciated, as I've spent the last hour and a half trawling around for one to no avail!

Can you let us know why you need it and in what format you will be using it - i.e. is it to be on an existing forum or webpage?

moneyuser · 12 March 2007 at 11:04AM

Ok, I changed the link to the correct one.

I've put this together for you.

Please note that the html and php may not meet any required standards or what is considered "correct html" and certainly does not meet any security standards and therefore cannot be considered as "hacker proof" (if there is such a thing). However it should provide you with a good starting point.

We have a html form where the user enters their username and email address. The user then presses the submit button which calls the php script. The php script will generate the password and email the password to the user using the email address they entered. An email will also be sent to your "storage" address. The storage address is defined in the php script (just after the end of the generatePassword function). This should be the only thing you need to change to get it to work. Of couse you might want to change what details are sent to the addresses, what info is displayed on screen, how the data is formatted etc. The email validation needs looking at.

IMPORTANT NOTE: After previewing the code it has messed up the opening braces, so where ever you see !! needs to be changed to an opening brace shift+[ (next to P)

Here is the html form. Copy the text and save it to a file named autopass.html.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Generate Password</TITLE></HEAD>
<body>

<form method="POST" action="autopass.php">
  <p><b>Username</b> <input type="text" name="txtUsername" size="20"></p>
  <p><b>Email&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>
  <input type="text" name="txtEmail" size="100"></p>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="btnSubmit">
  <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="btnReset">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here is the php script that is called by the form. Copy the text and save it as autopass.php.

<?php

// Heinz Tschabitscher
// How to Send Email from a PHP Script
//http://email.about.com/cs/phpemailtips/qt/et031202.htm

function SendEmail($to, $subject, $body)
!!
  //$to = "recipient&#64;example.com";
  //$subject = "Hi!";
  //$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
  if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) 
  !!
    //echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
    return true;
  } 
  else 
  !!
   // echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
    return false;
  }  
} 

// Jon Haworth
// PHP: Generate random password
// http://www.laughing-buddha.net/jon/php/password/
function generatePassword ($length = 8)
!!

  // start with a blank password
  $password = "";

  // define possible characters
  $possible = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz"; 
    
  // set up a counter
  $i = 0; 
    
  // add random characters to $password until $length is reached
  while ($i < $length) !! 

    // pick a random character from the possible ones
    $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1);
        
    // we don't want this character if it's already in the password
    if (!strstr($password, $char)) !! 
      $password .= $char;
      $i++;
    }

  }

  // done!
  return $password;
}

// Email address for admin
$adminEmail = "youremail&#64;youremail.com";

$username = $_POST[txtUsername];
$email = $_POST[txtEmail];

print "<BR>Username is " . $username; 
$password = generatePassword();
print "<BR>Password is " . $password; 
print "<BR>Email is " . $email; 

// Create email body
$emailBody = "Username is " . $username . 
             "\nPassword is " . $password . 
             "\nEmail is " . $email;

// Send email to Admin
if( SendEmail( $adminEmail, "New User", $emailBody ) )
!!
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent to admin!</p>");
}
else
!!
  echo("<p>Admin delivery failed</p>");
}

// Send email to user
$emailBody = " Your password is " . $password;
if( SendEmail( $email, "Your password", $emailBody ) )
!!
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent to User!</p>");
}
else
!!
  echo("<p>User delivery failed</p>");
}
?>

LewisC_2 · 12 March 2007 at 11:16AM

moneyuser wrote: »

Ok, I changed the link to the correct one.

I've put this together for you.

Please note that the html and php may not meet any required standards or what is considered "correct html" and certainly does not meet any security standards and therefore cannot be considered as "hacker proof" (if there is such a thing). However it should provide you with a good starting point.

We have a html form where the user enters their username and email address. The user then presses the submit button which calls the php script. The php script will generate the password and email the password to the user using the email address they entered. An email will also be sent to your "storage" address. The storage address is defined in the php script (just after the end of the generatePassword function). This should be the only thing you need to change to get it to work. Of couse you might want to change what details are sent to the addresses, what info is displayed on screen, how the data is formatted etc. The email validation needs looking at.

IMPORTANT NOTE: After previewing the code it has messed up the opening braces, so where ever you see !! needs to be changed to an opening brace shift+[ (next to P)

Thanks very much. Can tidy up the HTML no problem. I hand-code the entire site in XHTML 1.0 Transitional anyway, so that won't be a problem.

Security isn't an issue either, so will give that a whirl - thanks

PHP script

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