Problem Activating Account (version 7.5)

I just had someone register and they received a message "There is a problem activating your account" when they clicked on the registration link.  I suspect that they clicked on it twice by mistake because his account was already activated.

Maybe we should have a message that says:

"Your account is already activated"

instead of saying

"There is a problem activating your membership."

He thought there really was an error, when in actuality he probably clicked on it twice.  He never even tried to login to see if his login worked.

If he hadn't e-mailed me, he might have just given up and never logged on.

I am using 7.5 of the forum.  I plan on installing the latest version very shortly.  So if this was addressed in the latest version, I apologize.  (I typically wait a few weeks for bugs to get ironed out of a new version before installing any new version of anything.)  If not, I hope you inlude new verbage in the next version.

Thanks.

Couldn't you grab it from the URL?

http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums/activate.asp?ID=userna meAB78CDZ1BD

This is an example link.  I noticed it already contains the username.

Maybe changing to something like this would make it possible to detect if they already activated:

http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums/activate.asp?ID=userna meAB78CDZ1BD&User=username

The User=username could be used to run a check on whether the username was already activated.

Just an idea.

And, BTW, thanks for the quick response.

Yeah.

And and you could also do something like this:

http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums/activate.asp?ID=AB78CD Z1BDusername

where the first 10 characters are confirmation code and anything after that is the username.

Some e-mail programs don't like & character in the URL for some reason, so this may be a way around that and still be able to detect the username.