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Allows users of a site protected by sfGuardPlugin to create new accounts, verifying them by email. Both account creation and password changes require email verification as a speed bump to slow down spammers. Security

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sfApplyPlugin allows users to apply for accounts. Users are required to confirm their account applications via email. Users can also reset their passwords, which also requires email verification. sfApplyPlugin also provides a starting point for managing user profile settings such as the user's full name, which is requested to increase the chances that confirmation emails will not be filtered as spam. sfApplyPlugin requires sfGuardPlugin and Propel. The current version is appropriate for Symfony 1.0 and Propel, however a forthcoming release will support 1.2 and Doctrine.

Developers

Name	Status	Email
Tom Boutell	lead	moc.evaknup <<ta>> mot

License

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sfApplyPlugin
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Release 0.6.3 - 25/12/2008

Release 0.6.2 - 08/12/2008

Release 0.5.3 - 06/12/2008

sfApply plugin

Most public sites have similar needs where user registration is concerned. In order to slow down spam a little bit and get a grip on who's doing what, you want users to apply for accounts and confirm them by clicking on a link in an email message.

Symfony's sfGuardPlugin does a fine job managing the accounts you already have but doesn't provide a built-way for users to apply for and create accounts. sfApply adds that capability.

sfApplyPlugin also implements a password reset feature that works correctly and also requires users to confirm via email. This prevents a user who has discovered a momentarily unattended PC from taking over the account too easily.

Requirements

You need:

• sfGuardPlugin

• Propel

A Symfony 1.2-plus-Doctrine version of this plugin will follow shortly.

Installation

Read the sfGuardPlugin documentation first! Set up that plugin before continuing.

Then add the following to your schema.yml:

propel:
  sf_guard_user_profile:
    _attributes:
      phpName: sfGuardUserProfile
    user_id:
      type: integer
      foreignTable: sf_guard_user
      foreignReference: id
      required: true
      onDelete: cascade
    email:
      type: varchar(80)
      index: yes
    fullname:
      type: varchar(80)
     validate:
      type: varchar(17)
      index: yes

Note that sfApplyPlugin takes advantage of the "user profile" functionality offered by sfGuardPlugin as a place to store additional information. While sfGuardPlugin makes the name of the profile class configurable, sfApplyPlugin simply uses the default name (sfGuardUserProfile) for simplicity.

"But where do I put my own additional fields?" That's why I didn't build sfGuardUserProfile's schema directly into the plugin. Just add your additional fields after the full name field.

"Shouldn't there be yet another profile class for my stuff?" In theory, that might be nice. In practice, before you know it you'll be joining 28 tables every time someone accesses the page. Paste this one snippet of code just once instead.

You will also want to add the following routes to your config/routing.yml. The URLs are just suggestions, you can change them if you don't like them. Note that this plugin provides a working solution for users who have forgotten their passwords. Mapping the sf_guard_password route to sfApply/reset-request allows the "forgot your password?" link in the default sfGuardPlugin login form to work.

apply:
  url:  /apply
  param: { module: sfApply, action: apply }

reset:
  url: /reset
  param: { module: sfApply, action: reset }

resetRequest:
  url: /reset-request
  param: { module: sfApply, action: resetRequest }

validate:
  url: /confirm/:validate
  param: { module: sfApply, action: confirm }

settings:
  url: /settings
  param: { module: sfApply, action: settings }

# We implement the missing sf_guard_password feature from sfGuardPlugin
sf_guard_password:
  url: /reset-request
  param: { module: sfApply, action: resetRequest }

If you have enabled the built-in routes in sfGuardPlugin, then overriding sf_guard_password here might not work. You can fix that by copying sfGuardPlugin/modules/sfGuardAuth/templates/loginSuccess.php to your application and editing the "forgot your password?" link to point to sfApply/resetRequest instead.

Activate the sfApply module in your application's settings.yml file:

enabled_modules:        [default, sfGuardAuth, sfApply]

Note that you also need the sfGuardAuth module to enable logins.

Now you can easily add a button to your pages sending users to sfApply/apply to request accounts:

echo button_to("Create Account", "sfApply/apply");

You will almost certainly also want to copy sfGuardPlugin's modules/sfGuardAuth/templates/signinSuccess.php to your own application's modules folder and add a "Create Account" link to it, so that users understand they can make accounts of their own at what would otherwise be the most frustrating point in your application.

Customizing Emails

sfApply sends out email messages inviting users to verify their accounts or reset their passwords. You can customize these by copying modules/sfApply/templates/sendValidateNew.php and modules/sfApply/templates/sendValidateReset.php from the plugin to your application and editing them. The default emails aren't that bad; they do contain the name of your site. But you really ought to customize these so that users get a warm, fuzzy, personal sense that the messages are not spam.

If you want to send HTML emails, you should create separate plaintext versions named sendValidateNew.altbody.php and sendValidateReset.altbody.php for plain text. When Symfony sees these, it will automatically expect HTML in sendValdiateNew.php and sendValidateReset.php.

This approach to email is not supported in Symfony 1.2. I'll be looking at alternate solutions for 1.2.

Extending sfApply

"But I need the user's birthdate!" Of course you do. Every application needs something extra. Here's how to go about it:

1. Add your extra fields to sfGuardUserProfile in your schema.yml.
2. Create a modules/sfApply/templates folder in your application.
3. Copy my applySuccess.php and settingsSuccess.php files over.
4. Add the form fields you need for your additional information to those templates.
5. Copy sfApplyPlugin/modules/sfApply/actions/actions.class.php to your own modules/sfApply/actions folder. Notice that this class is initially empty. That's because it inherits its default behavior from sfApplyPlugin/modules/sfApply/lib/BasesfApplyActions.class.php.

6. Extend the populateProfileSettings method to save additional information to the profile when an account is first created:

   function populateProfileSettings($profile)
   {
     $birthday = $this->getRequestParameter('birthday');
     $profile->setBirthday($birthday);
     // Don't forget to call the parent class version!
     return parent::populateProfileSettings($profile);
   }
   

7. Extend updateProfileSettings in exactly the same way. The difference is that updateProfileSettings is called when the user edits their settings later, while populateProfileSettings is called only the first time. If your needs in both situations are similar, I suggest that you keep the shared code in a private method that you call from both.

8. Optionally override validateApply and validateSettings as well. Again, be sure to call the parent class versions before returning and return false if the parent class version returns false.

Credits

sfApplyPlugin was written by Tom Boutell. He can be contacted at tom@punkave.com. See also www.punkave.com and www.boutell.com for further information about his work.

Changelog

Version 0.53 corrects Markdown errors in the documentation. There have been no code changes from version 0.5, which was the first public release.