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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.

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.....

Greez
Rangi

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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