Beta Key System.
- Thread starter Joxel
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- Jul 24, 2010
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Here is something quick for you to work on, it is using the MySQL extension so make sure you're running a PHP installation before PHP 5.5.0.
PHP:
CREATE TABLE `cms_beta_keys` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`beta_key` varchar(25) NULL DEFAULT '' ,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`));
PHP:
<?php
function filter($var)
{
return mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($var)));
}
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
if (empty($_POST['beta_key'])) {
echo 'You didn\'t enter a BETA key!';
} else {
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("database") or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("SELECT `beta_key` FROM `cms_beta_keys` WHERE `beta_key` = '".filter($_POST['beta_key'])."'")) == 0) {
echo 'That isn\'t a valid BETA key!';
} else {
echo 'Beta key is valid!';
//Do what you want here (set a session or cookie for their access to register
//mysql_query("DELTE FROM `cms_bet_keys` WHERE `beta_key` = '".filter($_POST['beta_ket'])."' LIMIT 1");
}
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Welcome - BETA Key.</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="#" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="beta_key"><br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit!">
</form>
</body>
</html>- Thread starter
- #4
I can probably do something with this code, but i'm not looking to put it on the register :/ I was looking to let all users register, then add the beta key on the 'me.php' page. and if they try to access the client it gives them an error.
- Jul 24, 2010
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Heaplink
Developer & Designer
- Nov 9, 2011
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It's quite easy to make such a system, even secure.
- Use PDO/MySQLi - not the (soon to be deprecated) mysql functions.
- Create 2 tables;
betakeys (id, betakey)
The id is a PRIMARY KEY
The betakey column will contain the generated beta key.
users (id, [...], betakey_id, hasbeta)
The [...] are your own columns (username, password, email, etc)
The betakey_id is a relation to betakeys.id column
The hasbeta is a boolean (TRUE or FALSE) wether the user has beta access. This is what you use to check when the client is opened, etc.
You can use this function to generate a nice and simple key. This could be triggered when you generate keys in your backend and insert them into the betakeys table
To have unique keys, we check if the keys already exists. If they don't we add them to the database, otherwise we generate a new key and check again.
Then when they register, it should validate all the fields. We also check wether the entered betakey exists in the betakeys table and if a user doesn't already have it. If it does, we simply put the found betakey's ID in the betakey_id column and the hasbeta to TRUE.
Another method would be to remove the betakey_id column from users and simply have hasbeta. Then delete the registred keys from the betakeys table - this is better in performance, as you won't have a clusterfuck of rows, and also doesn't limit the amount of unique keys, that can be registred.
- Use PDO/MySQLi - not the (soon to be deprecated) mysql functions.
- Create 2 tables;
betakeys (id, betakey)
The id is a PRIMARY KEY
The betakey column will contain the generated beta key.
users (id, [...], betakey_id, hasbeta)
The [...] are your own columns (username, password, email, etc)
The betakey_id is a relation to betakeys.id column
The hasbeta is a boolean (TRUE or FALSE) wether the user has beta access. This is what you use to check when the client is opened, etc.
You can use this function to generate a nice and simple key. This could be triggered when you generate keys in your backend and insert them into the betakeys table
PHP:
function generate_key()
{
$character_set_array = array();
$character_set_array[] = array('count' => 4, 'characters' => 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ');
$character_set_array[] = array('count' => 4, 'characters' => '0123456789');
$temp_array = array();
foreach ($character_set_array as $character_set) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $character_set['count']; $i++) {
$temp_array[] = $character_set['characters'][rand(0, strlen($character_set['characters']) - 1)];
}
}
shuffle($temp_array);
return implode('', $temp_array);
}To have unique keys, we check if the keys already exists. If they don't we add them to the database, otherwise we generate a new key and check again.
Then when they register, it should validate all the fields. We also check wether the entered betakey exists in the betakeys table and if a user doesn't already have it. If it does, we simply put the found betakey's ID in the betakey_id column and the hasbeta to TRUE.
Another method would be to remove the betakey_id column from users and simply have hasbeta. Then delete the registred keys from the betakeys table - this is better in performance, as you won't have a clusterfuck of rows, and also doesn't limit the amount of unique keys, that can be registred.
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code and get him to implement the code.It really isnt hard.
Depending how you want to do it, you could add 2 columns to your users table:
betaKey & isBeta
When the user 'signs up for beta' they will have a code (how you wish for them to receive this code is your own choice)
And then there could be an activation page which would then check that the Beta Key is the same as the user wishing to use it.
If they match, then update the 'isBeta' to 1 or yes and if not, then give them an error.
Then upon the user visiting client.php you will have a check in place:
you will use an if statement for the following,
if the user trying to access isBeta = yes then allow access
else send them back to /me.php
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