What about posting them on web2pyslices.com or the wiki then linking at the end of the thread? Google groups is a bad place to post code as it messes the formatting and is unsearchable after a couple of months unless you use a third party site like gmane.
On Oct 13, 8:26 pm, Alex Fanjul <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be useful if we could add [SNIPPET] to the end of a email (in > thread) to indicate that its a future useful source code.... (as we are > doing with [SOLVED] problems already). > In this way, we could search/parse/filter for interesting snippets like > this one from Thadeus... (by now, I used to classificate them as > favourites) > > What do u think? > Alex F > > El 12/10/2009 19:27, Thadeus Burgess escribió: > > > > > Hash something unique. > > > I have implemented a custom verification in the system I am working on > > at work. > > > In my signup action, this creates a super super unique key 32 length > > string :) (this is overkill, but handles if two forms happen at the > > same request.now) > > > signup_hash = hash("%s|%s|%s|%s|%s" % (member_id, first_name, > > last_name, email, request.now)) > > > 127.0.0.1:8000/init/default/confirm/%s > > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/init/default/confirm/%s> % signup_hash > > > def confirm(): > > response.title = 'Confirmation' > > hash = request.args(0) or None > > > success = False > > member = None > > > if hash: > > member = db(db.participant.signup_hash == hash).select().first() > > > if member: > > member['is_valid'] = True > > db.participant[member.id <http://member.id>] = member > > success = True > > > return dict(success=success, hash=hash, member=member) > > > and on your confirmation page, you know > > > {if hash:}} > > {{if success:}} you have been confirmed > > {{else:}} sorry could not find your account for some reason. > > {{pass}} > > > {{else:}} > > thank you for registering, you should be recieving an email shortly > > {{pass}} > > > -Thadeus > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, mattynoce <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > hi, i'm looking to email verification separate from the auth_user > > class. i know the concept but what i'd like to do is use the same > > function that auth uses to create its random string. is there a simple > > function i can call to return a long, quasi-random string? > > > for example, i want to do something like: > > str = [get long string] > > message = 'Please click here: > > http://www.mysite.com/init/default/customverify/' > > + str > > > is that function available? > > > thank, > > > matt > > -- > Alejandro Fanjul Fdez. > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

