Drupal user registration without SMTP?

By cuteseal on 7 Dec 2004 at 00:38 UTC

Hi there,

I've been playing with Drupal for about a week now, and I'm loving it, but still getting a hang of the ropes. I'm wondering if there is a way to change the user registration process so that a mailout is not required, and either (1) the user chooses their own password or (2) drupal generates it and displays it on screen (as per the initial account creation)?

Thanks,
Jules

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You'd need to hack the

killes@www.drop.org commented 7 December 2004 at 00:39

You'd need to hack the Drupal core for this to work.
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Submit a feature request

Boris Mann commented 7 December 2004 at 01:26

As killes says, not currently part of the code, but it could be added. Submit a feature request.

Thanks!

cuteseal commented 7 December 2004 at 23:41

Thanks everyone. I'll raise a feature request. Then hack the code. :D

Hacked!

cuteseal commented 8 December 2004 at 05:14

Ok, here is the hacked code:

Under modules/user.module (~line 982):

        if ($account->status) {
          // Create new user account, no administrator approval required.
          $subject = _user_mail_text('welcome_subject', $variables);
          $body = _user_mail_text('welcome_body', $variables);
          user_mail($edit['mail'], $subject, $body, "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");
          //return t('Your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address.');
        }

Comment out the last line (return t) as above, and add after:

          $output .= "Welcome to Drupal. <p>Your password is <strong>$pass</strong>. You may change your password on the next page.</p><p>Please login below.</p>";
          $output .= form_hidden('destination', 'user/'. $account->uid);
          $output .= form_hidden('name', $account->name);
          $output .= form_hidden('pass', $pass);
          $output .= form_submit(t('Log in'));
          return form($output);

Enjoy!

Suggestion

media girl commented 8 December 2004 at 06:07

This is great. I hope you submit it officially so it can be integrated into a future version -- with perhaps some admin code modifications so that the registration method could be toggled between email/onscreen.

Nice work!

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