front end user member search

[scotch33]

Was with a customer earlier who has a memebrship of over 2000.  going to implement simplecms with feusers etc.  Now she asked about what happened when a user lost password and I was able to show here the 'lost my password' element. 
However - two questions arose - 1.  what if they lose username and password (I resisted the urge to say 'then they are idiots'), and on the back of that when i showed her how she could go through users in the back end 2.  is it possible to search on e-mail name within users (ie - if they don't know their user name then how can we find them to get them  a new password etc).

Any thoughts guys?  Cheers!  John.

[calguy1000]

Yes, in the latest version of feusers, you can search on any property using regular expressions, it's actually quite neat. 

However things are not so simple, because there is no requirement in feusers to have an email property. Unless you are using the self registration module, which requires an email property, things like "I forgot my username" would not work if there was no email property defined.

I'm thinking that this functionality could easily be written into a small separate module.