Confirming an email address...

I have visitors who submit reports on accommodation etc and i now want to be able to automatically confirm that the email address they give is valid.

I.e. the fill in a form, click submit, they then get an email which says click here to confirm this email was sent by you. I am then informed and can then add the article.


How can i go about this, at the moment my mail form's are PHP.

Thanks for any pointers tips etc...

Ian

 

Check out this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=86177#post86177

 

Thanks Mushroom, but I have that type of validation already in my php script.

This is what i am after.....

The client fills in a form on my website with an article.
They click submit.
They then get an email which says click here to confirm this email was sent by you.
This directs them to a confirmation screen on mywebsite.
I am then informed and can then add the article.

Ian

 

Here how I would do it
1. make a unique id with

$id=uniqid("cfr",true);
$id=str_replace(".","C",$id);

PHP:

2. save post in db with this id (char26)
3. send e-mail with link "www.dom.com/a_folder/confirm.php?action=$id"
4. write a script in "a_folder/comfirm.php" to handle the input var "action" etc.

 

Thanks mushroom, will have a go......

Ian