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Want to do two things and wondering if I'm missing something in the docs or if someone has tackled this already:

  1. User registers on the front end and get success messages saying they will be notified when approved.
  2. Admin is notified that they just did that.
  3. Admin activates them
  4. They get email saying they are good to go. (optional I guess)
Matt Green
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There's a nice plugin by Trevor Davis for this use case:

https://github.com/vigetlabs/craft-pendinguser

carlcs
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There is no current way that I know of that does this, but you can probably do it relatively easy with a custom plugin.

  1. If e-mail validation is turned off in the Users settings, the created user is verified by default. You can hook into the users.onBeforeSaveUser event and set the status as UserStatus::Pending. Then redirect them to a screen saving something like "Blah blah you will be notified once we activate you blah blah".

  2. Hook into the users.onSaveUser event, check if this is a new user (isNewUser) and send off an e-mail to a given e-mail.

  3. Admin logins and activate as normal.

  4. (Optional) In the same users.onSaveUser event, if this isn't a new user and the user status is UserStatus::Active, send out an e-mail to the address given by the user.

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  • Thanks Fred. Step one is not working for me. When I check to see if the user status is pending it shows as such, but when it's saved it's always active. I am doing exactly what you say and it's not working, let me know if I am doing something wrong. http://d.pr/i/Pqmu – Matt Green Sep 19 '14 at 04:06
  • I'd have to say my suggestion is untested, so there might be something overriding it, or maybe it's too early. Try the onSaveUser event? Have you tried reading through UsersController@actionSaveUser? – Fred Carlsen Sep 19 '14 at 07:31
  • I've got a site coming up that will need this functionality - did either of you (or anyone else) actually write the plugin required to do this? – darylknight Feb 19 '15 at 15:34
  • I was out of time, so I ended up writing a Laravel application instead. But check out Brad's answer regarding CUserIdentity here: http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/474/need-help-with-plugin-for-saml-authentication/486#486 – Fred Carlsen Feb 19 '15 at 22:07