Valid User Account Help!

[Eric King]

Hi folks,

I'm wondering, is there anyway to make it so people who register on my forums have to have a valid minecraft user account before they can register?

Will to throw a few bucks to anyone that can help!

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Chris D]

I don't know anything about Minecraft, but if there's a public API that can check Minecraft names then in theory it's just a case of setting up a custom field that is required during registration which uses a validation callback to check the entered name against the API.

 

[Eric King]

I don't know anything about Minecraft, but if there's a public API that can check Minecraft names then in theory it's just a case of setting up a custom field that is required during registration which uses a validation callback to check the entered name against the API.

So... what you are saying is... my request is in theory possible ?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Perhaps make a required custom field for the minecraft username that uses a callback to validate against your minecraft db:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/custom-user-field-callback-validate-value.379/

 

[Eric King]

Perhaps make a required custom field for the minecraft username that uses a callback to validate against your minecraft db:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/custom-user-field-callback-validate-value.379/

Cool... I'm a forums noob. So, I'm not entirely sure how to setup a callback to validate against minecraft.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Cool... I'm a forums noob. So, I'm not entirely sure how to setup a callback to validate against minecraft.

You need to be a programmer.

Here is a skeleton for the callback:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/custom-user-field-callback-validate-value.379/

If you need to connect to a separate db for minecraft then see this post for example code to connect to the second db:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/run-query-on-user-upgrade-code-example.396/

 

[SoManyPosts]

You need to be a programmer.

Here is a skeleton for the callback:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/custom-user-field-callback-validate-value.379/

If you need to connect to a separate db for minecraft then see this post for example code to connect to the second db:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/run-query-on-user-upgrade-code-example.396/

Is there a way to make the accounts check the Minecraft URL that returns a Boolean value. I forget the address at Minecraft.net though.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Is there a way to make the accounts check the Minecraft URL that returns a Boolean value. I forget the address at Minecraft.net though.

I think Alofoxx is doing what you are trying to do:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/help-with-code.35518/

 

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