Implementation of e-mail verification in Django
I have created a Django app. I have a registration page(simple HTML form) in the app,and it has an e-mail field while registering. Now i wanted to implement an email verification when the user registers. Like sending an email to the user (to email given in registration form). By googling i found there is a Django method 'send_email' which can be used for the above. But being a Django newbie, i was not able to understand the changes and functions to be created for doing so. Can somebody help me to do this or point some tutorials which would help me out. Or is there any other way to implement this other than the 'send_email' method of Django. Any help would be appreciated
I will paste my present codes here.
VIEWS.PY
def registrationForm(request):
if request.method == "POST":
firstName = request.POST.get("firstName")
lastName = request.POST.get("lastName")
email = request.POST.get("email")
password = request.POST.get("password")
sex = request.POST.get("sex")
birthday = request.POST.get("birthday")
print request.POST.get("sex")
UniversityDetails(firstName=firstName,lastName=lastName,email=email,password=password,sex=sex,birthday=birthday).save()
return render_to_response('registrationForm.html')
return render_to_response("registrationForm.html")
def login(request):
if request.POST:
email=request.POST.get("username")
password = request.POST.get("password")
print email
print password
user = UniversityDetails.objects.filter(email=email,password=password)
print user
if(not user):
return render_to_response("registrationForm.html",{'invalid': True })
else:
return render_to_response("login.html")
return render_to_response("registrationForm.html")
registrationForm.html
<html>
<head>
<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#datepicker").datepicker();
});
</script>
</head>
<title>
Login/Registration Page
</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
//Created / Generates the captcha function
function DrawCaptcha()
{
var a = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var b = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var c = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var d = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var e = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var f = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var g = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 10)+ '';
var code = a + ' ' + b + ' ' + ' ' + c + ' ' + d + ' ' + e + ' '+ f + ' ' + g;
document.getElementById("txtCaptcha").value = code
}
// Validate the Entered input aganist the generated security code function
function ValidCaptcha(){
var str1 = removeSpaces(document.getElementById('txtCaptcha').value);
var str2 = removeSpaces(document.getElementById('txtInput').value);
if (str1 == str2) return true;
return false;
}
// Remove the spaces from the entered and generated code
function removeSpaces(string)
{
return string.split(' ').join('');
}
</script>
<body onload="DrawCaptcha();">
<div align="center">
<form name="userInputForm" method="POST" id="myFormid" action="http://10.1.0.90:8080/login/">
<div style="float:left;width:100%;">
<p style="float:left;margin-right:10px;width:auto;"><label style="float:left;">Email id</label><br/> <input type="text" name="username" size="25" /></p>
<p style="float:left;margin-right:10px;width:auto;"><label style="float:left;">Password</label><br/><input type="password" name="password" size="25" />
{% if invalid %}
Mismatch in your email/password.
{% endif %}
</p>
</div>
<p style="clear:both;float:left;"><input type="submit" value="Log in" /></p>
</div>
</form><
<script type="text/javascript">
function userCheck(){
/*document.getElementById('myFormid').action = "http://10.1.0.90:8080/login/";
if ((document.userInputForm.username.value.length==0)) */
}
</script>
<form name ="myform" method="POST" id='FormID'>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First name</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="firstName" value="" maxlength="100" />
<b id="firstNameID" style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#B4045F;font-size:14px;">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Last name</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="lastName" value="" maxlength="100" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E-mail</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="100" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>
<input type="password" name="password" value="" maxlength="100" />
<b id="passwordID" style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#B4045F;font-size:14px;">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gender:</td>
<td>
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male" /> Male
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female" /> Female
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Birthday</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="birthday" id='datepicker' value="" maxlength="100" />
</td>
</tr>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="text" id="txtCaptcha"
style="background-image:url(1.jpg); text-align:center; border:none;
font-weight:bold; font-family:Modern" />
<input type="button" id="btnrefresh" value="Refresh" onclick="DrawCaptcha();" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="text" id="txtInput"/>
</td>
<td> <br> <br>
<input type="button" value="Sign Up" onClick="isEmpty();"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript">
function isEmpty(){
if ((document.myform.firstName.value.length==0))
{
document.getElementById('firstNameID').innerHTML = 'Please fill this field';
return true;
}
else if ((document.myform.password.value.length==0))
{
document.getElementById('passwordID').innerHTML = 'Please fill this field';
return true;
}
else if (! ValidCaptcha())
{
alert("Captcha entered wrong");
}
else
{
document.getElementById('FormID').action = "http://10.1.0.90:8080/registrationForm/";
document.getElementById('FormID').submit();
return false;
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Answer
Check out django-registration as a pluggable app.
Also you can use the code as a reference if you want to roll your own.
response to comment:
django-registration would be perfect for you. It doesn't come with html templates, you'll just have to adjust your forms slightly. It has very good documentation.
Does django-registration come with any sample templates I can use right away? No, for two reasons:
1. Providing default templates with an application is generally
hard to impossible, because different sites can have such
wildly different design and template structure. Any attempt to
provide templates which would work with all the possibilities
would probably end up working with none of them.
2. A number of things in django-registration depend on the
specific :ref:`registration backend <backend-api>` you use,
including the variables which end up in template
contexts. Since django-registration has no way of knowing in
advance what backend you're going to be using, it also has no
way of knowing what your templates will need to look like.
Fortunately, however, django-registration has good documentation
which explains what context variables will be available to
templates, and so it should be easy for anyone who knows Django's
template system to create templates which integrate with their own
site.