Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:30:30 -0400   
   From: WINSERVER SUPPORT   
   To: all   
   Subject: Add-on Utilities for v6.2.452.1   
   Newsgroups: winserver.public.gamma.testing   
   Message-ID: <1173699035.40.0@winserver.com>   
   X-Mailer: Wildcat! Interactive Net Server v7.0.454.5   
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   Hector Santos wrote:   
      
   > But starting with this version, we will have a cleaned up file    
    > area on the bbs with new WCX tools, applications that you can   
    > use with Wildcat, from us and 3rd party developers.  To start, I am   
   > thinking they will begin with:   
   >    
   >      - Show LastCallers   
   >      - Captcha tool   
   >      - Email-based Signup/Validate   
   >      - RSS news displays   
   >      - And others RSS/XML related Wildcat wigets   
   >    
   > These will all come with WCC source code so that developers    
    > can enhanced them or learn how to other applications using stuff   
    > they learn from these.   
      
   As a follow up to this post,  the two more critical completions are:   
      
      1) New user Signup Add-on   
          - with and without CAPTCHA   
      
      2) Email Based Validation Add-ons   
      
   and the optional combination of the two.   
      
   Technically speaking, you don't need these enhancements since Wildcat!    
   is prepared to offer you new user signup automatically, and validation    
   hooks that you can prepare yourself.  That is why they are optional.   
      
   While I don't recall the optional ZIP file names I provided while back    
   (I think last year around November), it was some first version "SIGNUP"    
   zip that gave people an example SIGNUP tool with CAPTCHA and EMAIL    
   VALIDATION.   
      
   I think most people liked it because it gave them something they can    
   install and work, and I recall some people modify it slightly to make it    
   fit into their system better.   
      
   I guess that is what I would like to know.  I am updating these two    
   components and it would very cool to get some insight into what, if    
   anything, people had done with these files.  What did they have to do to    
   make it work better for them? etc.   
      
   otherwise, I am going to do what I think it generic for everyone.   
      
   Here is where I am doing:   
      
   - The default HTTP\PUBLIC\NEWUSER.HTM is the default signup found, it    
   comes with every system.   
      
   - The optional add-on will be HTTP\PUBLIC\NEWUSER.WCT which WCWEB will   
   use if found.  As a WCT, we have more customization progrmaming control    
   like auto put in your site name, check for a site.info.image logo, etc.    
   When as a WCT, the idea is the SYSOP doesn't have to edit the    
   NEWUSER.WCT.  Thats the goal.   
      
   - I am adding a AJAX component to the NEWUSR.WCT. That means, the WCT    
   will check the user's name without submitting the input.  If there is an    
     error, it will popup right there on the same page.  Without AJAX, the    
   user will get an error page says "Click BACK button and try again"   
      
   - I am making the CAPTCHA optional and separate from the SIGNUP process.    
   I tried to do this before, and I remember there was some barrier, hence    
   why it isn't like that in the last version, but I will try to do this again.   
      
   - I am making the validation option as part of the signup process, and    
   also usable anytime if the sysop changes the user's account to    
   "non-validated."  That is how it suppose to work now (and it does).   
   The difference is I am want to explore eliminating extra login    
   requirements.  I did check this out and I think it is almost impossible    
   to do because of the nature of the wildcat security.  But again, I will    
   explore this.   
      
   - Finally, what I will spent time on is a "WIZARD" like concept where    
   all this can be done in "WIZARD WEB BASED PAGES" so that it can be    
   easily spelly out to users, page by page.   
      
   If you have any comments, now is the time. :-)   
      
   Keep in mind that these are separate from the official package, so it is    
   not intended to alter the current gamma system and delay any scheduled    
   release date of 452.1.   
      
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