Today I figured that the module I developed a while ago and never completely finished rotted enough on my hard drive.

The lazy registration module implements lazy registration for Drupal.

It can create accounts automatically, purge them after a period of time, allow users to make them permanent by either email confirmation or a simple edit to the account.

The account is created the first time the user tries to access an area which requires authentication. There are two ways of handling a user trying to access a members only area:
- Automatically create a temporary account
- Display a login form with the option of continuing with a temporary account.

Users can confirm the account in two ways:
- By editing their account information
- By email confirmation to make sure people don't enter bogus email addresses

Email confirmation is still buggy.

Drupal announcement is here and the project page is here.

This project was sponsored by Creditlink.

We had two busy weeks at the office, working on an interesting project we'll unveil pretty soon. Can't say much at the moment, but it's pretty cool.

What I wanted to say is that this project also spawned two Drupal modules I'm gonna release in the next days after some more through testing. They were sponsored by Creditlink.

I talked before about Simple Relationship, something along the lines of the rdf module for Drupal, but simpler. It came up quite nicely, there's some bugs (of course) which I still need to fix but overall I'm pretty happy with it.

Unlike the rdf module this one allows you to link to taxonomy terms or vocabularies as well. Maybe not that useful, but it's good to have the option to do it if you want that. Also, users can also create relationships which describe themselves.

The other module is Lazy registration, which implements lazy registration for drupal. It can create accounts automatically, purge them after a period of time, allow users to make them permanent by either email confirmation or a simple edit to the account. The account is created the first time the user tries to access an area which requires authentification. And there are a couple of other options there which I'll detail when I finally release it.

I only hope I find the time to perform the finishing touches soon.