reader

This is a framework that takes care of all the dull bits of registering, activating, reminding, logging in, sending messages and editing preferences for your site visitors (or members, or subscribers, or whatever you call them).

It uses authlogic to handle sessions and provides complete interfaces both for the administrator and the visitor. The admin interface is basic and fits in with radiant. The visitor interface is more friendly (and incidentally includes a trick email field – so-called inverse captcha – that should prevent spam signups).

By itself this isn’t very interesting but it supports a lot of other extensions including forum, groups (for private pages and html newsletters) and secure downloads.