[buddypress-dev] Common Ticketing/Action API?

[Casey Bisson]

WP and WPMU both have a couple different ways they generate tickets  
(for password resets, email confirmation, etc) that are later  
confirmed by the user (usually by clicking a one time link).

The BuddyPress forums, meanwhile, have hosted a bit of discussion  
about invitation systems which would probably also work similarly in  
that an email would be sent to the invitee with a one time link of  
some sort.

And a site I'm working on has needs like that, plus the need to  
confirm phone numbers (via text messages), allow password resets by  
phone (again, via text messages), invite people with different kinds  
of relationships (friend, family, teacher, student), and other such.

Wouldn't it be a bit easier if there were a common way of tracking the  
one-time "tickets" that are used for these different actions?

I've put together some code as a plugin that does pretty much what I'm  
talking about:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/13862/wordpress-action-ticketing-api/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ticket-framework/trunk/ticket-framework.php

I'll soon be posting another plugin that uses the API to confirm email  
address changes, allow people to enter (and confirm) a secondary email  
address, and does the same for phone numbers.

The simple idea is that a ticket is a unique string associated with an  
action (in the do_action() sense) and some data that is sent to that  
action. The API could be used to keep track of short URLs (the ticket  
doesn't have to be deleted after the first use), or nuclear launch  
codes (where deleting the ticket is kind of redundant).

Is this useful to anybody else?

--Casey

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