Newbie question: How would you proceed on verifying the confirmation link?

[ghost]

As the title says, I'm quite a newbie in Phoenix / Elixir. How would you proceed on creating the functionality which verifies the confirmation link that is sent by ask_confirm? I am not looking for a full-fledged tutorial, but a small top-level explanation.

I imagine you could have a function which is associated with a route that is supposed to receive the link and then add the current date to :confirmed_at? Would it be a good idea to add a confirmed boolean to the User schema and then switch the boolean to true when the user accesses the link sent in the email?

Thanks in advance!

[riverrun]

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you.

There's an example of how to handle confirmation here, but it might be helpful to give you some idea of the workflow:

• The Mailler.ask_confirm function will send an email, with a confirmation link, to the user.
• This confirmation link will be a link, with email address or username together with the confirmation key, to the confirm_email route.
• When the user clicks on the link, they are directed to the confirm_email route in the session_controller, which runs the Openmaize.ConfirmEmail function, which checks the key, adds the current date to confirmed_at and then sends a reply email to the user.

Each subsequent login then checks the user's confirmed_at value. If it is nil, the login fails. There's no need for an additional confirmed boolean value in the schema.