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Django User Registration with Email Confirmation

Generally, we sign up in any website, it sends the confirmation link to activate the account. Or sometime it asks to
email to change the email or reset the password of an account.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to send the confirmation mail using the Django when someone registers on our
web app. We will discuss an easy way to build this. But Django provides many other options like django allauth
application, django-registration, django-registration-redux. Those applications make this task very straightforward.

Before starting, make sure that you must knowledge of Django and Python programming language. Create the
basic setup of Django and configure the settings.

Configure Settings
First we need to configure the email host server in the settings.py for confirmation mail. Add the below
configuration in the settings.py file.

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
EMAIL_PORT = 587

We used the email-id along with the password and gmail SMTP host server. You can use the other SMTP server as
well.

Generate Token
We need to create the token that will be used in email confirmation URL. Create the token.py file in the token and
add the below code.
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from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator

from django.utils import six
class TokenGenerator(PasswordResetTokenGenerator):
def _make_hash_value(self, user, timestamp):
return (
six.text_type(user.pk) + six.text_type(timestamp) +
six.text_type(user.is_active)
)
account_activation_token = TokenGenerator()

We used the PasswordTokenGenerator class that is used to reset the password. In the above code, we generated
the unique token for confirmation.

Create Registration Form

Django provides the built-in UserCreationForm which is an excellent class to create form. We create a forms.py file
in the app and import the UserCreationForm class. Let's understand the following code.

forms.py

from django import forms

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class SignupForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(max_length=200, help_text='Required')
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('username', 'email', 'password1', 'password2')

In the above code, we imported the UserCreationForm and built-in User. Then we created a SignupForm including
extra field email in SignupForm.

view.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib.auth import login, authenticate
from .forms import SignupForm
from django.contrib.sites.shortcuts import get_current_site
from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes, force_text
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from django.utils.http import urlsafe_base64_encode, urlsafe_base64_decode
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from django.template.loader import render_to_string

from .tokens import account_activation_token
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

def signup(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = SignupForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
# save form in the memory not in database
user = form.save(commit=False)
user.is_active = False
user.save()
# to get the domain of the current site
current_site = get_current_site(request)
mail_subject = 'Activation link has been sent to your email id'
message = render_to_string('acc_active_email.html', {
'user': user,
'domain': current_site.domain,
'uid':urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)),
'token':account_activation_token.make_token(user),
})
to_email = form.cleaned_data.get('email')
email = EmailMessage(
mail_subject, message, to=[to_email]
)
email.send()
return HttpResponse('Please confirm your email address to complete the registration')
else:
form = SignupForm()
return render(request, 'signup.html', {'form': form})

Here we create a view of sign up, it got information using POST method and valid it. We have used the commit =
False because it allows us to get the model object and add some extra attribute. Here we have done user.is_active
= False which means user cannot login until email is verified.

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Then we used the EmailMessage() function to send mail along with the subject, message. Email message create by
a template.

templates/acc_active_email.html

{% autoescape off %}
Hi {{ user.username }},
Please click on the link to confirm your registration,
http://{{ domain }}{% url 'activate' uidb64=uid token=token %}
{% endautoescape %}

This template create an email body with activate link that will send for application.

Now we need to create a view for the activation link.

Create Activation View

Once the user click on the activation link, we need to activate their account through activation link. This process is
handled by the activate view.

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views.py

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def activate(request, uidb64, token):
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User = get_user_model()
try:
uid = force_text(urlsafe_base64_decode(uidb64))
user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
except(TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, User.DoesNotExist):
user = None
if user is not None and account_activation_token.check_token(user, token):
user.is_active = True
user.save()
return HttpResponse('Thank you for your email confirmation. Now you can login your account.')
else:
return HttpResponse('Activation link is invalid!')

We have added the activate function after the signup function. This view will check token it valid then user will
activate and login. We set user.is_active = True which means user can login.

Now we will map the views to the urls.

URLS

from django.urls import path

from .views import home, index, activate
urlpatterns = [
path('', home, name = 'home'),
path('form/', index, name = 'index'),
path('activate/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/',
activate, name='activate'),
]

Create a sign up form in template/signup.html.

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block content %}
<div class = "container">
<h2>Sign up</h2>
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<form method="post">

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{% csrf_token %}
{% for field in form %}
<p>
{{ field.label_tag }}<br>
{{ field }}
{% if field.help_text %}
<small style="display: none ">{{ field.help_text }}</small>
{% endif %}
{% for error in field.errors %}
<p style="color: red">{{ error }}</p>
{% endfor %}
</p>
{% endfor %}
<button type="submit">Sign up</button>
</form>
</div>
{% endblock %}

The form will look like as below. When the user click on the submit button the activation link send their entered
email id.

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When you click on the sign up button, the confirmation email send on given email-id.

Click on the received link and now you are ready to login.

Note -Make sure that the less secure app access setting should be turned on. Otherwise, you will face smtp error.

Tada, we have successfully created an email configuration based user registration. This process is straightforward
and required less code to complete. You can make it more improvement by adding more functionality such as
attractive template, redirect to login, etc.

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