<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Javier Godinez</b> <<a href="mailto:godinezj@gmail.com">godinezj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am trying to decide how to go about building site where users can
signup for an account by confirming their email address. They will also
have profiles and a rating system. <br>
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If anyone can direct me where to start, I will really appreciate it,
the tutorials where really basic and didnt get into the details of
sending emails or how to keep a user database with encrypted passwords
to authenticate users.<br>
<br></blockquote></div>Javier,<br>
<br>
Take a look at the CMF or CMF-based products like Plone
(<a href="http://plone.org">http://plone.org</a>) or CPS (<a href="http://www.cps-project.org/">http://www.cps-project.org/</a>). CMF is
linked directly from the main <a href="http://Zope.org">Zope.org</a> site. Included is membership
signup, you can encrypt passwords in the Zope ZODB database by using
the supplied acl_users folder or use any of a variety of user
datastores. They all provide a lot more than just membership signup and
form-based logon.<br>
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Non-modified CMF / Plone etc do have member signup and member profiles,
but not member confirmation or the concept of a member requiring higher
approval before their registration becomes a 'real' member. I believe
the CMFMember product provides this, but I've never tried it and wrote
my own solutions long ago. I don't know about a rating system product.<br>
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Have you looked at the Plone how-to's? They often are helpful even if you aren't specifically building a Plone site.<br>
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Good luck,<br>
Rob<br>