I have a community web site with joomla 1.6.4 and CB 1.4. How is it possible for a registered user to delete his own account (I don't want that the administrator will be involved into this process)...I have found some extensions for this....but they are only available for joomla 1.5.x. Is there a mechanism in cb 1.4 or joomla 1.6.x to fulfill this ? - many thanks
We've no feature for a user to disable or delete his account. You could create a new field such as a checkbox field and using incubator project CB Queries check if that field is checked or not and set the users account as blocked within _users database table. This would disable their account entirely. I've added a feature request for this however that can be followed at the below link.
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Hi krileon, I worked out the SQL to set the user into status 'blocked', depending on the checkbox ....but is it not a better idea to DELETE the user from the _USERS and the _COMPROFILER db tables (simultaneously) ...or are there some side effects when I do this ? - thanks Eric
If you delete the account then all of their data would be lost, they'd have no chances of restoring the account. If it's blocked then they could request from an administrator to have the account restored, etc.. This helps avoid accidental deletion resulting in lost data.
Common practice for social sites is to disable the account, then after 90 days "prune" their database by deleting those users who have been disabled for more then 90 days; which can be done using filtering from user management.
The main issue with deleting through incubator projects is you'd be doing direct queries, which doesn't execute any CB triggers and thus none of CBs plugins which may act on a user delete would fire.
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Thanks Eric