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Hello all,

I’ve integrated EE with SugarCRM for a client. In doing this, I’ve created an EE rest api that I can hit from SugarCRM to do things like “Convert SugarCRM Contact to EE Member”. Everything works really well, the only problem is the password situation.

How do I get the initial password to the new EE Member?

Ideally, I’d like to send an activation email to the new EE member and when they click the activation link it’ll prompt the new user to set their password. This is good because there’s no passwords being sent over email. Is this possible out of the box? Any ideas for how to implement this?

If that’s not possible, the next best thing would be to add the temporary password I generate from SugarCRM in the activation email. One of the issues with this is that the {password} field isn’t available in the fields to use in the “Member Account Activation Instructions” or “Member Account Validation Notification” email templates. How can I add the {password} field to those email notification templates?

Lastly, if all else fails, I’ll have to have SugarCRM send the account activation instructions email when it receives a successful response from the EE api. This works, but it’s not ideal in my opinion as that seems to be something EE should handle since we’re corresponding with an EE member.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

did you try this

$this->EE->functions->hash(stripslashes($member_password));

That’s what’s used to store the password in the database when the member is created, but I’m not sure it’ll help me any getting the password to the EE member.

ahhh yes, please use

sha1(stripslashes($member_password));

I appreciate the help, but we’re not on the same page. I’m not looking for how to encrypt the password. I need to solve the problem of getting a password to the new member that was programmatically created.

I figured out how to do the first option, and it was pretty simple. Simply redirect the user to a change password page when they activate their account. This can be accomplished through a simple extension hook, and as it goes 99% of the time, there’s a free extension already out there to do this: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/member-activation-redirect