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Felix Laate	Tuesday 29 January 2008 2:42:27 pm Hi all! I'm looking into the possibility of extending the user module. Registering a user currently works like this: - The user fills out a form - The userobject is created and a verification email is sent - The user confirms the registration This way of doing things have two major drawbacks: 1) Sending emails from such a system can be hazardous. In my experience, on some sytems, up to a third of all such emails sent never reach their destinaton 2) It makes the registration-process difficult for dummies (which, believe it or not, make up most of the world population :-)) So what I want to do, is to do a rewrite and accomplish this: - The user fils out a form - A SMS is sent to the user with a 4-digit pincode - The user enters the code and is ready to go I had a look into the user module. It is by nature a part of the kernel, and I really don't want to mess it up. Even if a hack seems to be the quickest way to achieve things, I realy want to do this in an extension. Is it possible to extend parts of a modue? Or do I need to make a new module, very similar to the original? Any help is helpfull! Felix Publlic Relations Manager Greater Stavanger www.greaterstavanger.com
Piotrek Karaś	Tuesday 29 January 2008 9:34:05 pm My guess is that it is perfectly possible by setting up a new module extension (for example smsregister), with register view copied from the kernel and then modified according to your needs. A view is just an interface to certain system state, and I am pretty sure you can have multiple different interfaces, which are independent. You can also turn disable the standard register view without having to touch the kernel (ini). I might be wrong here, but seems to me that a module is an abstract collection of views and fetches (and maybe some reusable parts of code), so creating a custom view for a module would actually extend module's functionality as such, but not affect anything 'in it'. -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu
Nathan Kelly	Monday 07 April 2008 7:47:51 pm <i>Is it possible to extend parts of a modue? Or do I need to make a new module, very similar to the original?</i> Hi, I'm in need of a similar solution and I'm with Felix, I don't want to mess with the kernel either. Is it possible to extend parts of a module? If so can someone maybe point me to some documentation that might explain how to do this? The changes I need to make to the registration process are rather minor so it would be great if I didn't have to recreate the entire user module for the sake of 50 odd lines of code. Cheers. Pardon me while I burst into flames...
Felix Laate	Monday 07 April 2008 11:54:13 pm @Nathan, we are currently looking into the possibility of patching kernel/user/register.php to allow for other types of handling than the default one (email). More specifically we plan to add a custom handling method, defined in an ini-file, which lets you control the registration process and thus the feedback/activation methods. If successful, we plan to kindly request for the adoption of this enhancement into ezpublish. Felix Publlic Relations Manager Greater Stavanger www.greaterstavanger.com
André R.	Wednesday 09 April 2008 5:20:32 am Patch for letting you extend the user register code can be found here: http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=12835&activeItem=2 eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe \|\| eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore \|\| eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription @: http://twitter.com/andrerom
Nathan Kelly	Wednesday 09 April 2008 5:44:00 am Wow, that was a quicker response than I expected, thank André I'll check it out. I must say it would be nice if this sort of action was possible with every core module, I had to hack a kernel file for the browse function which simply added the ability to specify the start node with a hidden input field in one of my developments because the start node depended on the current user, this was a function not achievable through ini settings and it wasn't worth developing an entire extension for due to the fact it only needed three lines of code. I would like to see the ability to extend all of the core modules and functions in future versions, I think this will add yet another layer of flexibility to eZ and I can't see it being a major issue to implement, simply add in a check if additional functionality has been set in an extension and if so execute it within the current action. This would basically be a plugin mechanism for core modules, the only issue I can see would be executing multiple plugins/extra actions within one module action instance, but you guys are pretty brainy ;). I'll check this patch out, thanks André. Pardon me while I burst into flames...