Could not register for a new account

[khenn]

I just installed the newest 2.2 releases dated 12-30 and 12-31 2002 and tested this on both. I was configuring and wanted to test creating a new account so that I could test purchasing a product. I was not able to create a new account. I filled out the form and clicked on the continue button. It took me to create_account_process.php with a blank screen. I added a few "echo" statements to try to find where it was blowing up. I was led to the catalog/includes/functions/validations.php file. I determined that if I commented out the following three lines of code at the end, that I could then register successfully.

 

// if (!checkdnsrr($domain, "MX") && !checkdnsrr($domain, "A")) {

// $valid_address = false;

// }

 

It actually appeared to be blowing out on the first line with the call to checkdnsrr. I searched all of the directories for a file containing that function, but found nothing.

 

Am I missing something? Where is that function located?

 

Thanks Kris

[ambience]

Hi,

 

Try this..

 

Go into the Administration section, Customers, E-mail options, and change the setting verify e-mail address through dns to false.

 

Graeme.

[burt]

checkdnsrr is not an Oscommerce function. It is a core part of PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php

 

So you are trying to validate an email address that does not have a *valid* MX and/or A record.

 

http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_...ry/a.record.htm <--What is an A record ?

 

http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_...m?mx.record.htm <--What is an MX record ?

[khenn]

Thanks, actually, both responses helped. I turned off the DNS validation, and also looked at the documentation for the function. I am running development on WIN2K and according to the documentation, that function is not supported on NT (I guess that's why it blew out) . Although there is a comment added that there is another function called checkdnsrr_winNT that supposedly does work. Would there be a way of changing the script to include an if statement to determine what OS you were running and then run the appropriate function?

 

Kris