I'm trying to learn Login (1.7.1 on Revo 2.2.0-pl2) for a client this week, and I've hit a wall. (Again, but that's just me.)
So far, a user can register, get a confirmation e-mail, click the link in the e-mail and be activated. However, I want the user to be logged in when activated, which according to the docs happens by default, because the "authenticate" property defaults to 1.
So I set it anyway, just to be sure. My confirmation e-mail goes to Resource ID 7, which has the following in it:
[[!ConfirmRegister? &authenticate=`1` &redirectTo=`8`]]
When the new user clicks on the link in the e-mail, the link opens Resource ID 7, activates the user, and then goes to Resource ID 8. Resource ID 8 has the following at the top (note that "firstname" is an extended field that I am capturing in the registration form, and it is being properly stored in the user account):
[[!Profile? &prefix=`user.`]]
Welcome, [[+user.firstname]]!
No matter what I put in for firstname while registering an account, the page always says "Welcome, !" (that is, a blank name).
This leads me to believe the user is not being logged in when ConfirmRegister runs. I have read the docs up and down, backwards and forwards, and maybe I've missed it, but I don't see a function in the Login Add-On that will just tell me, for debugging purposes, if a user is logged in. Even something that returns a 1 if there's a user logged in or a 0 if there isn't. Without that, I have to assume that they're not logged in.
I have tested this on multiple browsers on my Mac (including ones on which I am not logged into the manager with a different account), and had a friend test it on Firefox/Win. We're both getting the same result.
So, what am I doing wrong, and how do I get over this bump in the road?
-m
