Login / Register - Activation link isn't resolving

Hi,

Continuing form a previous thread, I have Login set up with all the relevant handler resources, but once the email is sent to the user after registering, the link provided looks O, but gives the user a 404 error.



And for now I set the redirect to a standard unprotected resource.

This is my Register snippet:

[[!Register?
&submitVar=`registerbtn`
&activationResourceId=`114`
&activationEmailTpl=`lgnActivateEmailTpl`
&activationEmailSubject=`Thanks for Registering with the LTDA!`
&submittedResourceId=`113`
&usergroups=`Members`

]]

This is resource 114

[[!ConfirmRegister? &redirectTo=`1`]]



And this is my Register form:

<div class="register">
<div class="registerMessage">[[+error.message]]</div>

<form class="form" action="[[~[[*id]]]]" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="nospam:blank" value="" />

<label for="username">[[%register.username? &namespace=`login` &topic=`register`]]
<span class="error">[[+error.username]]</span>
<input type="text" name="username:required:minLength=8" id="username" value="[[+username]]" />
</label>

<label for="password">[[%register.password]]
<span class="error">[[+error.password]]</span>
<input type="password" name="password:required:minLength=8" id="password" value="[[+password]]" />
</label>

<label for="fullname">[[%register.fullname]]
<span class="error">[[+error.fullname]]</span>
<input type="text" name="fullname:required" id="fullname" value="[[+fullname]]" />
</label>
<label for="email">[[%register.email]]
<span class="error">[[+error.email]]</span>
<input type="text" name="email:email" id="email" value="[[+email]]" />
</label>

<div class="form-buttons">
<input type="submit" name="registerbtn" value="Register" />
</div>
</form>
</div>

The activation link looks pretty normal to me:
http://domain.com/membership-confirmation-handler/?lp=cjJqcW13NGQ&lu=MTIzNDU2Nzg


But it must be malformed somehow?

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance!
Andy

Ok - I have found the problem I think - but I don't know how to fix it!


The activation link only fails if i user a numerical username. If i use:
abcdefg as the username - the user gets activated and redirected to the relevant resource.
if is use:
12345678 as the username - the user gets a 404 error.

unfortunately in this scenario, all the users will be using numerical user names!!

Is there a way to enable/fix this?

Usernames that start with a number confuse MODX (just as variable names in PHP can't start with a number). In some MODX methods, the number indicates that the value is a number rather than a string, so MODX looks for a user with that ID rather than that username.

The only solution at present is to prefix the usernames with a letter or string of letters.