Download: http://www.brianlitzinger.com/ee/

This plugin lets you create an anonymous member, and immediately signs them in as that member so they can take advantage of certain functionality without registering with the site, which can be a barrier for user interaction.
     
      This was originally written to be used with Solspace’s Favorites module.
     
      Require Parameters:
     
      • group_id - Which member group do you want to assign the member to? Would be best to create a new group with no privileges.</li>
     
      Optional Parameters:
     
      • salt - If you want to salt the passwords.
      • screen_name - Screen Name you want to give anonymous users. If screen_name=“ip”, their IP address will be used instead. Default value is “Anonymous User”.
 
      Example:

      Log a user in again if their cookie is present: 

     
      To use with the Favorites module, simply include this tag on the page before the “save” method:

Very nice…

This is great, working on a site right now where it might come in very handy.

Seems that http://www.brianlitzinger.com/ is down, you mind posting this extension here in the forum?

It’s back up now.

I’d rather keep the most up to date file on my server. I don’t use Github b/c I use Subversion at work… too much for me to keep straight. Just easier for me to package it up as a zip file.

So I’ve got this, and trying to use it to add someone to the default “Members” group (id 5).

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Nothing seems to be happening. No new member is showing up in the control panel. I turned off the Member Group Security Lock (the one that says only Super Admins can add new members to the group), but that didn’t seem to have an effect either. Any ideas for debugging?

Ah my fault, I was still logged in as the control panel admin when I checked the frontend. Now I see it.

Awesome! Thanks for the plugin.

Updated to 1.0.1

Found a small bug in the login method that I hadn’t seen before even though I’ve used this on 3 sites already.

Download from the link in the OP.

Has anybody tried the LogMeIn plugin from PutYourLightsOn? They seem pretty similar in function, was wondering if anybody had some more insight on the two? I’m working on an SAEF form to act as a guestbook of sorts.

Upon looking at further documentation, am I correct in saying that I do not create this member first, as in the LogMeIn plugin? Rather the parameters auto-generate the user?

They are similar in a way, but LogMeIn uses a predefined user that your guests will be logged in as. Mine actually creates a completely new user for each guest, but they don’t really know it.

If you look at the source code you’ll see where I’ve noted that I’d like to add the option to take that anonymous account and allow the guest to turn that account into a real user in which they can actually use.

So yeah, it’s two different approaches to essentially the same thing.

I’m looking at solutions to people not having to register before placing items in a shopping cart.
I looked at the plugin code and saw this example:

I wondered if it would be possible to insert dynamic data from a form, so something like:

So they filled in a form about themselves hit submit and then go on to the purchase item page.

I realise this is not anonymous data but it seems like a way round the potential blockage in needing to register before ordering. Ideally I would like to collect other things like a telephone number in a custom profile field.