Topic: Login "remember me" feature?
Hey y'all
Is there any mods or such so that a member can choose to be remembered before they login because I'm not fond of it at the mo ....
C'mon any takers?
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
Check your profile under Privacy, the "Save username and password between visits." checkbox 
3 2006-11-15 12:08 (edited by piniyini 2006-11-15 12:09)
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
piniyini wrote:
so that a member can choose to be remembered before they login
I think you skim read, don't worry bout it I do it too - heh ;-)
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
piniyini wrote:
piniyini wrote:so that a member can choose to be remembered before they login
I think you skim read, don't worry bout it I do it too - heh ;-)
The "Save username and password between visits." function does just that. But it doesn't provide a checkbox at the login because it would be unnecessary.
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
Jansson wrote:
The "Save username and password between visits." function does just that. But it doesn't provide a checkbox at the login because it would be unnecessary.
I'm wanting a checkbox at login, is there a mod that will help?
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
piniyini wrote:
piniyini wrote:so that a member can choose to be remembered before they login
I think you skim read, don't worry bout it I do it too - heh ;-)
No, I read it perfectly fine. However, I simply pointed out the way that users can choose to be "remembered" in PunBB.
You could have a checkbox on the logon page and have that control the expire time for the cookie. However, that will be messed with by other parts of PunBB (ie: user changes their password, user sets or unsets the remember box in profile). You would have to ignore the expire choice set in the profile to implement this properly
Re: Login "remember me" feature?
I posted a request for this feature also. I'm amazed that people don't realize the importance of a "remember me" checkbox on a login screen. The point here is that users who don't manually logout are usually non-advanced users who don't visit their profile page either because they are lazy or just don't know how to.
I can point you to any site that has a "remember me" checkbox on their login page for this very reason - people need to make this decision when they login as they may be at school, or in an internet cafe quickly checking their forum and they know they don't want the site to remember them at that time.
Examples of sites with a "remember me" checkbox on login: punbb, gmail, yahoo mail, live mail/hotmail, oh wait - isn't it almost every site on the internet that has this feature?