Hi Guys! Is there any free email verification script ? I own a directory and I saw many people submit their sites with fake/false email addresses. That's why I'm looking for email verification script. Can somebody help me ?
If you do a search on php email verification source you will get some pointers to some scripts. Poeple use fake/false emsils to avoid getting spam. While you are operating a legitimate directory, some people use them to harvest email addresses. There are two types of verification scripts. Those which make sure the email address submitted is well formed. And those which try to contact the email to make sure it is true. What you are probably looking for is a two stage registrartion process. In the first stage, you would use captcha to defeat robots. But, you would tell people that their listing cannot be included in the direcrtory uintil they verify their listing in response to an email message that you send them. This would encourage people to provide a real email address to get verified. You also need to include a very clear policy statement about the current and future use of email address gathered. I know this is not a script, but perhaps these thoughts will point you to the best solution.
Yeah where can I get one ? some directories verify email addresses later i.e. after submission and some do it before. How do they do this ?
There is an article which describes some options at DevShed: Email-Address-Verification-with-PHP And there is another article here which describes a system where you send an email message which needs to be verified by the recipient: http://www.phpeasystep.com/workshopview.php?id=24 You will need to hack your directory script to incorporate this feature. Some already provide this as an option or another user may have come up with a solution to the same issue.