[wp-hackers] Users with no email address

Alex Hempton-Smith hempsworth at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 13:42:33 UTC 2012


For a membership app I built on top of WP, for users without email
addresses, we used [username]@members.ourdomain.com.

It allowed us to run a check whether its a real email address or not;

if ( strpos( $email, '@members.ourdomain.com' ) ...

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Kind regards,
Alex Hempton-Smith

www.alexhemptonsmith.com
www.twitter.com/hempsworth



On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Mike Walsh <mpwalsh8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:06 AM, William Satterwhite <
> whsatterwhite at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Sure you could use a free service, like Gmail, but I for one would be
> more
> > apt to use an email address created at the domain of my website.
> > [ ... snipped ... ]
>
>
> This is what I did for I site I built that needed 100+ "demo" users.  I
> randomly created user names and gave them addresses with the
> username at mydemosite.com (where mydemosite.com was my URL).  It works fine
> and makes WordPress happy because each username needs an e-mail address.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Walsh - mpwalsh8 at gmail.com
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