Allow quicker registration and less chance of forgetting username by allowing email address to be the login.

I agree - this would be a great feature. I have added it to the J!Forge Feature Request tracker.

forge.joomla.org/sf/go/artf3753?nav=1

Post edited by: gsbe, at: 2006/03/03 09:08

I did this with CB only - if you're using the CB login module it doesn't need to touch Joomla ( I think - not heavily tested! ).

Diff of comprofiler.php:
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< $checkusername = trim( mosGetParam( $_POST, 'checkusername', '') );
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> $checkusername = 1;
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< . "\nWHERE username='$checkusername' AND email='$confirmEmail'"
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> . "\nWHERE email='$confirmEmail'"
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< . "\nWHERE u.username='".$username."' AND u.password='".$passwd."' AND u.id = ue.id"
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> . "\nWHERE u.email='".$username."' AND u.password='".$passwd."' AND u.id = ue.id"
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> $username = $row->username;
[/code:1]

Diff of comprofiler.html.php:
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< <td><?php echo _PROMPT_UNAME; ?></td>
< <td><input type="text" name="checkusername" class="inputbox" size="40" maxlength="25" /></td>
< </tr>
< <tr>
[/code:1]

tried those, i got lost. nothing worked out....

I used another approach to solved this issue.
In - comprofiler.html.php:
1. Comment the 'username' entry in the registration form.
2. Add a hidden input 'username'
3. In the Java script - before starting 'username' checkes I added an assignment:
[code:1]me.value = me.value;[/code:1]

and it seams to work.

Any comment?