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Double e-mail box in registration form

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People often give wrong e-mail address during registration. I have tens inactive accounts because the e-mail address is wrong (eg. typo) and people do not get activation e-mail. I suggest to double e-mail address field in registration form in future. Maybe is that possibility now?
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Someone has a similar problem? The fact is that many email addresses are typed with an error, and new users can not activate their account because they have not received an activation link.
Double address field would be the solution to the problem.
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+1
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Unfortunately there don't seem to be any events in the template file where one can place the confirm email in a correct location.

https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/blob/mas ... ml#L34-L37

Would be a bit out of place in another location I would think and not look good.
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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RMcGirr83 wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:17 pm Unfortunately there don't seem to be any events in the template file where one can place the confirm email in a correct location.
What about ucp_register_credentials_after
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Displays after the password confirmation box, not directly underneath the email address input area.
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then hardcoded?
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Then it isn't an extension, is it.
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Yes, then it's a [Snippet] :geek:
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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RMcGirr83 wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:17 pm Unfortunately there don't seem to be any events in the template file where one can place the confirm email in a correct location.

https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/blob/mas ... ml#L34-L37

Would be a bit out of place in another location I would think and not look good.
You could use jquery after() to assign a new attribute until phpbb adds an event in that template.

example:

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$(function() {
	var $form = $('#register');
	var email_confirm = $('<input/>').attr({ 
		type: 'email', 
		size: 25, 
		maxlength: 100,
		id: 'email_confirm', 
		name: 'email_confirm',
		class: 'inputbox autowidth',
	});
	$form.find('input[type=email][name=email]').after(email_confirm);
});
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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For modern browsers you can use flexbox to reorder elements.

Use the template event ucp_register_credentials_before to add the email confirmation field:

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<dl class="email_confirm_container">
	<dt><label for="email_confirm">{L_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CONFIRM}{L_COLON}</label></dt>
	<dd><input type="email" tabindex="2" name="email_confirm" id="email_confirm" size="25" maxlength="100" value="{EMAIL}" class="inputbox autowidth" title="{L_EMAIL_ADDRESS_CONFIRM}" autocomplete="off" /></dd>
</dl>
Add some CSS to move it below the first email field:

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#register .fields2 {
	display: flex;
	flex-direction: column;
}

#register .fields2 .email_confirm_container + dl {
	order: 1;
}

#register .fields2 .email_confirm_container + dl + dl {
	order: 2;
}

#register .fields2 .email_confirm_container {
	order: 3;
}

#register .fields2 * {
	order: 4;
}
The only downside is that the order is wrong if there's another extension enabled that uses the same template event to add other registration fields. In browsers that don't support flexbox like IE 9 and earlier, Steve's solution could be used as a fallback.
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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Wow! Interesting discussion.
This one seems ok http://forum.atnel.pl/ucp.php?mode=register
But I don't know how to achieve this effect.
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You could ask them.
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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:) I did it today and i am waiting for the answer.
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Re: Double e-mail box in registration form

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How times change - back with 3.0 and before the registration always had a email address confirmation textbox, and some people ranted about how antiquated that concept was.
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