Send emails to notify about registration requests instead of writing to a file

go/go/templates/registered.html

+{% extends 'base.html' %}
+
+
+{% block title %}
+Go - Registration Email Sent
+{% endblock %}
+
+
+{% block content %}
+<p>
+Your registration request has been sent! Please be patient, our
+administrators will handle it as soon as they can.
+</p>
+
+{% endblock %}

go/go/views.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from django.http import Http404, HttpResponseServerError
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
+from django.core.mail import send_mail
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404, redirect
 import os
@@ -183,8 +184,6 @@ def signup(request):
     This view presents the user with a registration form. You can register
     yourself, or another person.
 
-    TODO: Add email notification to sysadmin that a new registration has
-    occurred.
     """
 
     form = SignupForm()
@@ -197,23 +196,13 @@ def signup(request):
             description = form.cleaned_data.get('description')
 
 
-            """
-            This code simply writes out to a file the registration.
-            Ideally, we will be sending an administrator an email instead.
-            But we need an email account to do that.
-            """
-            f = open(os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'registrations.txt'), 'a')
-            f.write( str(timezone.now()) )
-            f.write( str('\n') )
-            f.write( str(username) )
-            f.write( str('\n') )
-            f.write( str(full_name) )
-            f.write( str('\n') )
-            f.write( str(description) )
-            f.write( str('\n\n\n') )
-            f.close()
-
-            return redirect('index')
+            send_mail('Signup from %s' % (username), '%s signed up at %s\n'
+                'Username: %s\nMessage: %s\nPlease attend to this request at '
+                'your earliest convenience.' % (str(full_name),
+                str(timezone.now()).strip(), str(username), str(description)),
+                settings.EMAIL_FROM, [settings.EMAIL_TO])
+
+            return redirect('registered')
 
     return render(request, 'signup.html', {
         'form': form,
@@ -255,3 +244,7 @@ def about(request):
     },
     )
 
+def registered(request):
+    return render(request, 'registered.html', {
+    },
+    )

go/settings/secret.py.template

@@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ DB_HOST = ""
 
 PIWIK_SITE_ID = ""
 PIWIK_URL = ""
+
+# Do not include a final slash!
+SERVERURL = ""
+
+EMAIL_HOST = ""
+EMAIL_PORT = ""
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = ""
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ""

go/settings/settings.py.template

@@ -147,3 +147,14 @@ AUTH_LDAP_ALWAYS_UPDATE_USER = True
 
 PIWIK_SITE_ID = secret.PIWIK_SITE_ID
 PIWIK_URL = secret.PIWIK_URL
+
+
+SERVERURL = secret.SERVERURL
+
+# Mail settings
+EMAIL_HOST = secret.EMAIL_HOST
+EMAIL_PORT = secret.EMAIL_PORT
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = secret.EMAIL_HOST_USER
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = secret.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
+EMAIL_FROM = "example@example.com"
+EMAIL_TO = "to@example.com"

go/settings/urls.py

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('go.views',
     # /delete/<short> - Delete a link, no content display.
     url(r'^delete/(?P<short>\w+)$', 'delete', name = 'delete'),
 
+    # /registered - registration complete page
+    url(r'^registered/?$', 'registered', name = 'registered'),
+
     # /admin - Administrator interface.
     url(r'^admin/?', include(admin.site.urls)),
 )