Issue with e-mail verification

[smithandjones]

I am using User Meta Pro on my main registration page with ‘need e-mail verification’ selected. This works fine.

I have a new requirement to create users automatically when they submit a post (before they are registered) and the post is moderated. Approving the post triggers the following function;

add_action('cred_save_data', 'createpost4',10,2);
function createpost4($post_id, $form_data)
{
// if a specific form
    if ($form_data['id']==29756)
    {
$email_address = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpcf-guitar-email', $single = true );

if( null == username_exists( $email_address ) ) {

  // Generate the password and create the user
  $password = wp_generate_password( 12, false );
  $user_id = wp_create_user( $email_address, $password, $email_address );

  // Set the nickname
  wp_update_user(
    array(
      'ID'          =>    $user_id,
      'nickname'    =>    $email_address
    )
  );

// Set the role
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( 'customer' );

// Email the user
wp_mail( $email_address, 'Welcome!', 'Your Password: ' . $password);
}

wp_update_post(array('ID'=>$post_id, 'post_author'=>$user_id, 'post_status'=>'publish'));
}
}

The function works fine and the new user is created BUT because User Meta Pro is set to ‘need e-mail verification’ the user is not activated and cannot log in.

So I need a way to include the User Meta activation code in my function. Could you advise if this is possible please, or suggest another way?

Regards

Robert

[Khaled]

Hi,

You can get email verification url by following code and add it to the email.

global $userMeta;
$verificationUrl = $userMeta->emailVerificationUrl( $user );

Thanks.

[smithandjones]

Hi Khaled

That works, thank you. Please help with a follow up;

I need to include a different redirect url (I mean different from the url set in User Meta Data’e-mail verification page’)

So can I modify the code line
$verificationUrl = $userMeta->emailVerificationUrl( $user );
to introduce a different redirect url?

Regards

Robert

[smithandjones]

Hi Khaled

Just to ask if you can help with my last post.

I want to modify the code line $verificationUrl = $userMeta->emailVerificationUrl( $user );
to introduce a different redirect url.

When the user verifies their e-mail address, I want to redirect to their first post so the url will be in the form;

$url = get_permalink($post_id);

I need to take the variable $url and use it to replace the default url contained in the $userMeta->emailVerificationUrl( $user );

This is the last piece of my jigsaw to get this function completed so I would appreciate your help.

Kind regards

Robert

[Khaled]

Hi Robert,

If you just use

$url = get_permalink($post_id);

and add $url to your email, user shall get your new url.

However. when user visit this url we need to process our email verification code. To implement this, please have a look on user-meta/controllers/pro/umExecutionPageController.php

executionPage method at line 39, which has been called by line 11.

You can do another approach, as your users get their password by email, so you don’t need to verify their email anymore. You can just activate them on your code.

To do it you can add a tracker to the user inside your createpost4 function.

update_user_meta( $user_id, 'reg_method', 'by_post' ); 

Then use user_register action hook to activate users instantly.

add_action( 'user_register',  'activateUser', 50 );
function activateUser( $userID ) {
   $reg_method = get_user_meta( $userID, 'reg_method', true );
   if ( $reg_method == 'by_post' ) {
      update_user_meta( $userID, 'user_meta_user_status', 'active' );     
   }
}

Hope, it will helps.

Thanks.

[smithandjones]

Hi Khaled

I tried the following code as you suggested;

add_action('cred_save_data', 'createpost4',10,2);
function createpost4($post_id, $form_data)
{
// if a specific form
    if ($form_data['id']==29756)
    {
$email_address = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpcf-guitar-email', $single = true );

if( null == username_exists( $email_address ) ) {

  // Generate the password and create the user
  $password = wp_generate_password( 12, false );
  $user_id = wp_create_user( $email_address, $password, $email_address );

  // Set the nickname
  wp_update_user(
    array(
      'ID'          =>    $user_id,
      'nickname'    =>    $email_address
    )
  );

// Set the role
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( 'customer' );

wp_update_user(
    array(
      'ID'            =>    $user_id,
      'reg_method'    =>    'by_post'
    )
  );

global $userMeta;
// $verificationUrl = $userMeta->emailVerificationUrl( $user );

$url = get_permalink($post_id);

// Email the user
wp_mail( $email_address, 'Welcome', 'Your Password: ' . $password, 'Click the link to see your first post: ' .  $url);
}

wp_update_post(array('ID'=>$post_id, 'post_author'=>$user_id, 'post_status'=>'publish'));

}
}

add_action( 'user_register',  'activateUser', 50 ); function activateUser( $userID ) {
   $reg_method = get_user_meta( $userID, 'reg_method', true );
   if ( $reg_method == 'by_post' ) {
      update_user_meta( $userID, 'user_meta_user_status', 'active' );     
   }
}

But the new user is not made active.

Two thoughts I had;

1. Does the user date field ‘reg_method’ have to be created first?

2. In the new add_action( ‘user_register’, ….. How does the function know which user is being referred to?

Could you have another look please and see if you can see the problem.

Regards

Robert

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