[ic] creating a new account

[Ethan Rowe]

Scott Andreas wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:02, Joshua Lavin wrote:
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>>On Nov 15, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Scott Andreas wrote:
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>>>I'm trying to have the users create an account before checkout. Is 
>>>what I want it to do is auto assign the username with the next 
>>>username.autonumber sequence. Since I'm using email as the login 
>>>feature I want the user to enter his/her email address and a verified 
>>>password . After which it should take them to the new_account page.
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>all ready have that set is what I'm trying to do is if the user isn't
>logged in the checkout page it will bounce to login.html which does
>work. The new user would use email and a verified password that would
>automatically use the username.autonumber sequence for username.
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If you want the email field to be what the user enters to identify 
his/herself, then you need to use the "foreign key" option of the userdb 
functions.  When a value is provided in mv_username for any of the 
userdb functions, it is assumed that the value corresponds to the 
username column of your userdb table.

For what you're attempting to work, you'll need, either as a "UserDB 
foreign" directive in catalog.cfg, or in a [userdb function=.... 
foreign=email] attribute in the userdb tag.

Passing the name of your email column with the "foreign" attribute in 
this fashion will still generate an automatic number for the username 
column, but will have the contents of mv_username go into/compare 
against the foreign column you specify, and for new accounts will ensure 
that the new foreign column value is unique.

>I've tried the USERDB default assign_username 1 in catalog.cfg directive
>but I use the admins order entry as the directive would force the user
>to logout, so it won't work for me
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>>Setting members_only to 1 on the Checkout page will force login. The 
>>archives have details on the email as login setup.
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Ethan Rowe
End Point Corporation
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