hi,

just an idea because on my old site which i am moving to dragonfly at the moment i allow people to login using either their nickname(i call this username) or the email which they registered with.

i found that about 80% of users actaully use their email to login, maybe because they have so many different nicknames on various sites(could also apply to having maybe different emails address i suppose).

just a thought, eventually i will be doing this but i think its a good feature and would be much better if it was included as then people would not have to hack the code every time the files where updated.

thanks for listening

sounds like a good idea to me, what happens if there are two people that use one email address though?

Actually, e-mail is unique per user, so no two accounts could have the same address. This wouldn't be too hard to implement.

yea I suppose dragonfly doesnt allow multiple email registrations as it is so it wouldn't be a problem

Yep, it should not be the problem using email instead of username. In some cases that I see, username is email address

that would be good and have (other login options) in the userinfo block to accomodate for it.

I like this one to.. have some users that dont remember theyr username, so e-mail login woud be nice

jzky wrote:

I like this one to.. have some users that dont remember theyr username, so e-mail login woud be nice

FYI, some people have multiple email accounts and you know what happens. They forgot which one they used.

WebSiteGuru wrote:

jzky wrote: I like this one to.. have some users that dont remember theyr username, so e-mail login woud be nice FYI, some people have multiple email accounts and you know what happens. They forgot which one they used.

hehe, i have about 3 Email Address but i don't used 2

I think it would be good to maybe have an "either email or username" type of deal.

Agreed with that. there should be an option to login for either.

i think i found solution for this, i need more testing for this.

Looking forward to it.

okay i found it....


open includes/classes/cpg_member.php

in Line 105,

Find '.$user_prefix."_users WHERE username='$username' AND user_id>1"

Replace to
'.$user_prefix."_users WHERE username='$username' OR user_email='$username' AND user_id>1"

Careful, this file can be replace in future, it quite of Hack.

Tell me how it goes.

Why not add it to the Core? Does it add alot of queries? Does it slow down a site? I mean, added usability CANNOT be a drawback! Suggest it to DJ, that would be my idea.