forget password?

Philippines
June 10, 2008 10:36am CST
does anyone here could help me figure out the codes for "forget password" or on "how to confirmation mail" ? im trying to create a web page.and it needs more...in the client it should also allow to send mail for forgotten password? i already have the database and the design.the thing i lack is the codes to automatically send the reply or the password match to the email address which is given.... could i use mailto tag? ive also use mailto in other parts of the web page project.is it also possible that i use mailto tag for forget password? hoping for advices, tips or possible sites that you could recommend...
1 response
@lizardgod (443)
• United States
10 Jun 08
I am pretty sure mailto won't work for this, what I think most people do is use and autoresponder that either does one of two things. Access the database and reset the password to a known quanity chosen from a database and then uses the autresponder to send out an email to the email that they put in with the new password. Or second they keep all the passwords linked with emails in a database and then the autoresponder pulls out the email they put in and sends them an auto email to then with both. As far as I have seen they are using autoresponders rather than mailto.
• Philippines
10 Jun 08
tanx.ill try that.got any site with good sample for this?
• United States
10 Jun 08
actually I don't because I have not done websites in years, I am just guessing actually from the sites that I have used and how they seem to act when you ask for a forgotten password. That is more what they seem like rather than the mailto tag. I think it would be alot easier also to just do the auto repsonder rather than dealing with linking the mailto with your databases.
• Philippines
10 Jun 08
i look for autoresponder but its a software.was it the one you mentioned? i was hoping for a code.but you are still right about autoresponder.is their any other way