[ic] Use E-Mail Address Instead Of Username For Login

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dennis Chen)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Villa [mailto:matt@1percent.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:34 PM
> To: interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
> Subject: RE: [ic] Use E-Mail Address Instead Of Username For Login
> 
> 
> > There is another issue as well, which I just encountered with a
> client.
> > If you are not requiring customers log in before placing an 
> order (if
> you
> > want me as an e-commerce customer that is necessary) then 
> you need to
> > create a new userdb profile for the auto-created user. Otherwise a
> > duplicate email address will cause the autocreation code to faile.
> 
> I am going to force the customers to be logged in. However, I need to
> enforce that the e-mail address is unique. People have told me that
> adding 
> email=unique userdb: Email address is unique
> to the profiles.order file will work however it doesn't. I didn't see
> any examples of how people set that directive. Maybe you can help.

I changed the username to email when users create a new account so
essentially,
their email address will be their username and email addresss.  Thus, no
users will be 
having duplicate logins or email addresses.  But you'll need to hack the
code slightly 
if the customer plans to save the cart (forget where) as it does not like
the @.  
Remember to increase the size of the username field if you do use this
method. 

Hope that helps.
Dennis Chen