[solved] Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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Zoorlat

[solved] Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

Post by Zoorlat »

Hello great forum!
I am trying to find a way to use email-adresses as usernames in the Front End User-module. Can this be done? How do I go about to get the functionality from the email-property to apply to the username-property?

For example, if a user has forgotten her password, I want it sent to her username (which is a email-adress). Also validation as so on would be nice.

Any suggestions where to start?

:-\ I hope I explained the question well enough.
Last edited by Zoorlat on Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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rangitoto
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Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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I would ask the programmer of this module.

If a password is lost the systems doesn't send the same pw!! They'll send a new one.....

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Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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FEU doesn't remember passwords, they are stored encrypted in the database (using a one way encryption technique).  Therefore there's no way to send the same password.
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Zoorlat

Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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8) I know the system sends a new pw. Sorry for being too vague in my post.

That is not important for my question. What I am trying to do is find a way to have the username double as email. So that the new password (etc), is sent to the username (which is an email-adress). This way the user do not run the risk of forgetting his/her username. And since each email is unique, it is welll suited for being a user-id.

In other words, I am trying to get FEU to function in the same way as the user system in Google (amongst others).
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Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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FEU was not designed to do that.  It would require significant modifications and testing to FEU and to Selfreg.  As well as other modules that extract a users email address in the traditional way.
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Zoorlat

Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

Post by Zoorlat »

Ok, thank you Calguy for the quick response!

It is good to know beforehand that there is no easy solution to it. I will try to achive this function thru some tweaking instead, using an invisible email-field and somehow assigning the value of the username to it  :)

I will post here if I make any progress.
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Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

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Any progress on this so far?  I am looking to do the same thing.
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kendo451

Re: Combining username and email in FrontEndUser-module

Post by kendo451 »

FEU now has an option to use email address as the username.  It is in the administrative section for this module.
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