Re: [PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile

2005-02-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jacques, Thursday, February 24, 2005, 3:02:09 AM, you wrote: J> I thought of capturing his IP Address and checking this value J> against my users table in my database where I have captured IP J> Addresses of users who have previously registered. Good luck. There isn't a way that I know of t

Re: [PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile

2005-02-25 Thread Richard Lynch
Jacques wrote: > How can I ensure that a user is prevented from creating a second profile > after he has registered a second time with different registration details? You can't. Not totally. You could send them a Cookie, and hope they're not smart enough to delete it before they re-register. Yo

Re: [PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile

2005-02-25 Thread Randy Johnson
You could do a few things here. I would not banned people from signing up again if the ipaddress is in the database. You could make it so no email could be in the database more than once. What I did before was: if a user's ipaddress matches an ipaddress in the database I have the script email me

Re: [PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile

2005-02-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 04:02, Jacques wrote: > How can I ensure that a user is prevented from creating a second profile > after he has registered a second time with different registration details? > > I thought of capturing his IP Address and checking this value against my > users table in my dat

[PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile

2005-02-24 Thread Jacques
How can I ensure that a user is prevented from creating a second profile after he has registered a second time with different registration details? I thought of capturing his IP Address and checking this value against my users table in my database where I have captured IP Addresses of users who