Admin control of who registers - Web Wiz Support and Community Forums

Hi,

I am in the middle of setting up a web wiz forum and was wondering if there is a way when a person registers that it goes to the administrator who can then give them permission (or Not) for the forums?

Thanks for any help

L

-borg-'s suggestion is the easiest thing to implement.

I created a forum and setup extensive grouping systems where a user had to make a post with some basic informaiton, and then an admin would elevate their group based on the post. It worked great except for the fact that we had over 1000 users register in 36 hours. What a nightmare!

BTW, kudos again to -borg- as I have a forum running very well with over 7100 users, 12+ MB's in size, averages 25-30 active users at any time, and peak at times with over 100 users. Did I mention it's on Access?

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We have the activate email and the welcome email go to our web administrator, they set the acount up, put them in appropriate groups based on who they are and then email them with the user and password details. We modified the register.asp to this.

  '******************************************
  '***     Send activate email   ***
  '******************************************

'Inititlaise the subject of the e-mail that may be sent in the next if/ifelse statements
strSubject = "" & strTxtWelcome & " " & strTxtEmailToThe & " " & strMainForumName

'If the members account needs to be activated or reactivated then send the member a re-activate mail a redirect them to a page to tell them there account needs re-activating
If (blnEmailActivation = True AND strMode = "new") OR blnAccountReactivate = True Then

                         'Send an e-mail to enable the users account to be activated
                         'Initailise the e-mail body variable with the body of the e-mail
                         strEmailBody = strTxtHi & " " & decodeString(strUsername)
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtEmailThankYouForRegistering & " " & strMainForumName & "."
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtUsername & ": - " & decodeString(strUsername)
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & strTxtPassword & ": - " & strPassword
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtToActivateYourMembershipFor & " " & strMainForumName & " " & strTxtForumClickOnTheLinkBelow & ": -"
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strForumPath & "/activate.asp?ID=" & Server.URLEncode(strUserCode)

'Send the e-mail using the Send Mail function created on the send_mail_function.inc file
blnSentEmail = SendMail(strEmailBody, decodeString(strUsername), admin@yourcompany.com, strRealName, decodeString(strEmail), strSubject, strMailComponent, false)

                         'Reset server Object
                         rsCommon.Close
                         Set rsCommon = Nothing
   adoCon.Close
   Set adoCon = Nothing

                         'Redirect the reactivate page
                         If blnAccountReactivate = True Then
                                   Response.Redirect("register_confirm.asp?TP=REACT&FID=" & intForumID)
                         'Redirect to the activate page
                         Else
                                   Response.Redirect("register_confirm.asp?TP=ACT&FID=" & intForumID)
                         End If

  '******************************************
  '***     Send welcome email   ***
  '******************************************

'Send the new user a welcome e-mail if e-mail notification is turned on and the user has given an e-mail address
ElseIf blnEmail = True AND strEmail <> "" AND strMode = "new" Then

                         'Initailise the e-mail body variable with the body of the e-mail
                         strEmailBody = strTxtHi & " " & decodeString(strUsername)
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtEmailThankYouForRegistering & " " & strMainForumName & "."
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtEmailYouCanNowUseTheForumAt & " " & strWebsiteName & " " & strTxtEmailForumAt & " " & strForumPath
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strTxtUsername & ": - " & strUsername
                         strEmailBody = strEmailBody & vbCrLf & strTxtPassword & ": - " & decodeString