Hey there, I'm starting up a school discussion forum and recently had a spam attack and had to enable email verification. The problem with verification is that students at the school cannot access email due to the firewall... anyway, my question is if its possible to have different registration requirements for different IP ranges...

For example, if the user is signing up from a school IP address, do not require email verification, but require it for all other IP addresses. I don't know how to approach this and even where to start looking so all help is greatly appreciated (if its even possible to do).

well it's possible to detect the ip and it's possible to make a range but wether you could do the rest of the code is a diffferent matter.

Well I figured it must be possible to do the actual detection, as that is how user bans are typically done. But really the question is if its possible to integrate that IP detection system into the user registration, and how to implement it.

I suppose you could duplicate the whole document with an if around it then change a bunch of stuff. Of course that would make it twice as big.

I wonder if a conditional of some kind would work here?

Thats what i just said, of course big chances are when you come to upgrading it will a) need you to do it again due to the small fact you can't really use the plugin system and b) you wouldn't just be able to copy the last code because there will be differences between the versions.

Really? I fail to see where you mentioned conditionals at all.

Easier to understand ;)

enough guys

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Thanks to both of you for restarting the discussion. I was turned off the idea after asking on another vB site which basically turned out that I would need to hire a coder if I wanted it done (not going to happen).

I looked into the register template and register.php, but I can't find where the actual email verification is setup; I found this which informed me of the "$vbphrase[ip]: $post[ip]" phrase, which I think would work perfectly with an if statement... if I can just find where to put it.

EDIT: Ah, I might have found it: