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Password Program in ColdFusion
- Introduction
- Registration Form
- Lost Passwords
- The Login Page
Lost Passwords
What if you forget the password? Time to parse that database that you have just posted to...
<html>
<head>
<title>Forgotten Password Page</title>
<SCRIPT>
<!--
function testbox(form){
Ctrl=form.email;
if (Ctrl.value==""||Ctrl.value.indexOf('@',0)==-1){
return(false);
} else
return(true);
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<a href="index2.cfm"><FONT SIZE="4">BACK TO HOME
PAGE</A></FONT><BR>
<h1 align="center">Did you forget your User Name and
Password?</h1>
<br><font size=+1>
You will be emailed your username and password if it is added to our
database.<br>
To unsubscribe, email <a href="mailto:info@dautolink.com">info@dautolink.com</a>
and put unsubscribe in the subject line, and send.<br>
Register with Dautolink.com!!<br>
<br><br><br>
<hr>
<CFFORM NAME="forgot" METHOD="POST" ACTION="forgot2.cfm">
<div align="center">
<center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
width="90%">
<tr><td width="70%"><b>Choose a question
in choice of a clue:</b></FONT></td>
<td width="30%"><select name="Clue">
<option value="What is your favorite color?">What is your favorite
color?</OPTION>
<option value="What is the name of your favorite pet?">What is
the name of your favorite pet?</OPTION>
<option value="What are the last five digits of your Social Security
Number?">What are the last five digits of your Social Security Number?</OPTION>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%"><B>CLUE ANSWER:</B></td>
<td width="50%"><cfinput type="text" name="Clue2"
size="30" required="yes" message="Please give your Clue."></td>
</tr>
</b>
<tr>
<td width="50%"><b>EMAIL:</b></td>
<td width="50%"><cfinput type="text" name="email"
required="yes" onvalidate="testbox" message="Invalid
Email Entry." size="20" maxlength="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="28%"></td>
<td width="72%"></td>
</tr>
</b>
</table>
</center>
</div>
<p align="center">
<input type="Submit" value="Search"><input type="reset"
value="Reset">
</CFFORM>
</body>
</html>
You will not be posted out for entering too many names, but the clue and email
and clue answer must all jive, or no password and
username. Unlike many other password programs, you get the correct combo, and
your UserName and Password are posted
as well as emailed. Saves some time. Here's the posted cfm page for the result
of forgot1.cfm, forgot2.cfm...
<CFQUERY NAME="gilwayb" DATASOURCE="upload">
SELECT *
FROM passwd
WHERE CLUE2='#FORM.Clue2#' AND EMAIL='#FORM.email#'
</CFQUERY>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Password/Registration Request Approved</title>
</head>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<a href="index2.cfm"><FONT SIZE="4">BACK TO LOGIN
PAGE</A></FONT><BR><BR>
<CFMAIL TO= #Form.email#
CC="info@dautolink.com"
FROM= "info@dautolink.com"
SUBJECT= "Valid Registration and Password"
SERVER="mail.dautolink.com"
QUERY="gilwayb">
This is your valid username and password.
Thank you for choosing Dautolink.com. We will be in touch with you soon!
<CFOUTPUT>
Your Name: #LastName# #FirstName#
User Name: #UserName#
Password: #Password#
</CFOUTPUT>
</CFMAIL>
<b><font size=4>This is your Registration/Password Information.<br>
Keep it in a safe place.<BR>An email will be coming to your address shortly.<br>
If your clue and email are not yours, your name will not be posted on this page.<br>
Please contact Dautolink directly, or Re-Register.<br>
</b></font>
<br><hr>
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="gilwayb">
<b><font size=4>
Name: #LastName# #FirstName#<BR>
User Name: #UserName#<BR>
Password: #Password#<BR></B></FONT>
</CFOUTPUT>
<BR>
<a href="index2.cfm"><FONT SIZE="4">BACK TO LOGIN
PAGE</A></FONT>
</body>
</html>
For those of you who are ColdFusion beginners, you can make just a plain posted to cfm page, and call it welcome.cfm, and have it do the same parsing work. I got fancy and wanted to protect all pages that say, were attempted to be directly accessed but no one had gone through the login page. Don't worry about it, it still works without the fancy deterrence ColdFusion but not as well. So for now, the posting page is login_action.cfm, which checks all things and decides if we should go to an error page or get into the site. Then the welcome.cfm page...
I have been a ColdFusion and ASP programmer for UPS in Watertown Massachusetts for the past two years, and for my own business, Julia Computer Consulting. I believe ColdFusion is the way of the fut...
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