Re: [webmin-devel] Anonymous Account Activation

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 07/Feb/2008 06:00 Bill Moyers wrote ..
> > If you are implementing this as Virtualmin plugin (with a
> > virtual_feature.pl file), you can have your own input fields added to the
> > mailbox user form by defining the mailbox_inputs function in
> > virtual_feature.pl . This is the recommended method, as it removes the
> > need to modify the core Virtualmin code, and so will continue to work even
> > after an upgrade.
> >
> > For details on writing plugins, go to
> > http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/ and then to the plugin
> > developer's documentation.
> 
> Jamie, you're right. I didn't know about the mailbox_inputs function in
> the docs. Thanks, that solves that problem.
> 
> Also, we'd like to inject into the user creation email a variable
> containing a link to the activation page. Looking through the docs and the
> source, I don't see any way that plugins can change the substitution hash
> for template emails.
> 
> If such a thing doesn't exist, maybe there could be another function in
> the virtual_feature.pl api such as mailbox_email_substitutions which
> returns a hash of additional email substitution variables and is called by
> send_template_email. I can see how potentially other plugins might want to
> be able to do this as well, but you might not agree that it's important
> enough to warrant changing the core.
> 
> The only solution I can see without such a function is to have
> mailbox_save actually insert the link directly into the template email,
> but that's bad because there's no (I think) guarantee that the save will
> be called before the email is sent, and it's just an ugly solution.

There is actually a slightly hackish way you could do this - in the
mailbox_save function, you could set a key of your own in the user
hash parameter (the 1st) with code like :

$_[0]->{myplugin_something} = "whatever";

Then in the email template,  you can refer to ${MYPLUGIN_SOMETHING}
which will be replaced with whatever you set.

 - Jamie