No username required for user account use email only

Thursday 01 March 2007 8:44:57 pm

Hi Nathan

No real quick fix for this. What you can do without hacking the kernel is hide the username form element in the signup and set the value to be the attribute_id ("user"+ attribute_id might be better esp. if there is a length limit on usernames)

standard/templates/content/datatype/edit/ezuser.tpl

...
{* Username. *}
<div class="element">
    {section show=$attribute.content.has_stored_login}
        <input type="hidden" name="{$attribute_base}_data_user_login_{$attribute.id}_stored_login" size="16" value="{$attribute.content.login}" disabled="disabled" />
        <input type="hidden" name="{$attribute_base}_data_user_login_{$attribute.id}" value="{$attribute.content.login}" />
    {section-else}
        <input id="ezcoa-{if ne( $attribute_base, 'ContentObjectAttribute' )}{$attribute_base}-{/if}{$attribute.contentclassattribute_id}_{$attribute.contentclass_attribute_identifier}_login" class="ezcc-{$attribute.object.content_class.identifier} ezcca-{$attribute.object.content_class.identifier}_{$attribute.contentclass_attribute_identifier}" type="hidden" name="{$attribute_base}_data_user_login_{$attribute.id}" size="16" value="user{$attribute.content.id}" />
    {/section}
</div>
...

To do this completly you'd need to override all templates that use the username and hide/remove it.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Bruce

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Thursday 01 March 2007 9:27:18 pm

Works like a charm, but if anyone else is looking at Bruce's example there is one change needed:

Change:
value="user{$attribute.content.id}"
To:
value="user{$attribute.content.contentobject_id}"

Thanks Bruce, you just saved my hide.

Cheers!

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Monday 05 March 2007 9:25:23 am

hi...

changing this post just a bit...

i have a request from a client wanting us to remove passwords and only want users to have to register/login with an username.

is their a clean way to go about this? or is this some dirty kernel hacking?

regarding no username... i had a similar request over a year ago from another client and what i did i guess is a bit dirty.. but i made the user field hidden and on the onSubmit method via javascript copied over the email into the user account field(hidden field)..

this way username and email was always the same and easy to remember.

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