Sign Up Assistant
Most online applications require a sign up process to register new accounts in the system. Usually the operation also requires filling in a number of profile settings, an activation system for security purposes and a password recovery mechanism.
The Sign Up Assistant component provides a customizable API that assists developers in creating a database-driven sign up system, without the hassle of writing their own database access code.
In this multi-part tutorial we will explore the features provided with this component:
- automatically interface with the current Zone and related database
- highly customizable: allows to store any number of custom user profile fields
- pre-process and post-process plugins for custom validation and sign up logic
- customizable confirmation emails and password recovery emails
- unique activation codes for extra sign up security
- password recovery service included
- customizable error messages
- easily works with the Login Assistant to create an integrated sign up and login system
- fine grained configuration
- extremely simple to deploy and configure