PHP Booosta 3 Tutorial

User registration

The first user we have created in the admin area. Booosta also provides a way for users to register themselves. In the installer you can choose, if this should be possible or not. You can change this after the installation in the central config file of Booosta, which is local/config.incl.php:

<?php
namespace booosta;

Framework::$CONFIG = [
'site_name'            => 'My Test Application',
'allow_registration'   => true,
'confirm_registration' => true,
'mcrypt_keyfile'       => 'local/key.php',
'language'             => 'en',

'db_module'            => 'mysqli',
'db_hostname'          => 'localhost',
'db_user'              => 'myuser',
'db_password'          => 'mypassword',
'db_database'          => 'mydb',

'mail_sender'          => 'me@example.com',
'mail_backend'         => 'php',
'mail_smtp_params'     => [ 'host' => 'smtp.example.com', 'auth' => true, 'username' => '', 'password' => '' ],

'use_edit_delete_pics' => true,
'edit_pic_code'        => '<span class="glyphicon text-default glyphicon-pencil" aria-hidden="true" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="edit"></span>',
'delete_pic_code'      => '<span class="glyphicon text-danger glyphicon-remove" aria-hidden="true" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="delete"></span>',

'always_load_jquery'   => true,

# usually you do not need to change anything beyond this line

'DEBUG_MODE'           => false,
'LOG_MODE'             => false,
'BACKUPMODE'           => false,

'serial_field'         => ['usersettings'],
'ESCAPE_CURL'          => false,
'NO_DBCONNECT'         => false,
];
?>

In these config file you find most of the settings you selected in the installer. "allow_registration" allows users to register themselves with the system. "confirm_registration" sends out a confirmation email to the user with a secret link that is used to enable the created account. As long as the new user has not clicked on this link the account stays disabled. Of course an administrator can enable this account when edititg that user.
So let us be a foreign person and create an account for our online colleague... New and existing users have to be pointed to lib/modules/usersystem/login_user.php:

You can see the "Register" link an click on it...


Choose a username and a password and provide you email address. If you enabled user confirmation it has to be a working email address. After a short time you should find the confirmation email in your mailbox. If not, you should check if your webserver is able to send emails. You can try to change the mail sending method to "sendmail" or "SMTP". With SMTP you must provide the server and probably a valid username and password in the config file.
After that you can login with the new user account. If it does not work, be sure you have clicked on the link in the confirmation email you got. If it still does not work log in as administrator (login_adminuser.php) again and see, if the user is existing and enabled. You also can try to reset the users password there. If you still fail, look in the manual if your server meets all requirements for Booosta. Especially the enabled mcrypt PHP module.


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