How to Activate Virtuemart's Silent User Registration
If you use Virtuemart Shopping Cart on your web site you will find that your shoppers may need to verify their email address after filling out billing information. This email verification may be confusing your visitors and therefore decreasing you online sales. This video tutorial illustrates how you can configure your control panel so your visitors do not have to verify their email in order to complete their order.
You will need a Joomla super administrator account to access site's global configuration. Additionally, by enabling silent registration you become a potential target to spambots. You may consider using a human verification tool on your virtuemart registration form after enabling silent registration.
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... written by Dan Yager,
March 07, 2009
I like the silent registration feature since it increased my sales a bit, however I am getting a lot of SPAM registrations now. I would like to add a snippet of PHP code that does some form validation to check for common SPAM techniques. Do you know where to add this? Human verification is not a good solution. Please let me know. Great tutorial!
Dan Yager www.quickheads.com
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... written by ooogy,
March 08, 2009
Hi Dan, I would think that image verification tool should work fine, you just need to find a good one or you may be having issues with something else or an outdated Joomla site. In any case, doing more than this would require some custom development which could become pricey. Have you considered upgrading your virtuemart to 1.1? This new version really includes some nice features such as custom templating, etc. Thanks for your comment. Best, Ogy
Dan Yager
www.quickheads.com