Posted by Virginner on 07/12/07 12:58

"Kevin Raleigh" <kraleigh@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>I am using your second suggestion, whereby the user is sent an email link
> with a random number on it that resides in the database along with the
> user
> "id". However I am having trouble understanding what the page should look
> like that handles the incoming data from:
> web address=
> http://www.myUrl.com/pageThatHandlesScript.php?id="id&randNum="randNum"
>
<SNIP>

Hi Kevin (plse don't top post!)

URL shouild look like http://www.fred.com/validate.php?id=999&code=1234

validate.php:

check existance of both $_GET["id"] and $_GET["code"]
look up $_GET["id"] in database and retrieve matching code
if $_GET["code"] matches code found in database, then
update datebase validated field to true or 'Y' or whatever
display appropriate message
else
display error message

Now, do I get a cut?

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