eMember – want to use email as username

[SanDiegoWebGuy]

I want to lift the restrictions on my site so the user doesn’t see “User (email):Only Letter, Number and Underscore allowed. ” when they use their email as the username.

Essentially, I want subscribers to use their email as a username, so they don’t need to remember yet another username.

[admin]

Update: We now have a couple of features that will allow you to do this. The later posts in this topic has more info on it.

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We don’t have this option. eMember integrates with WordPress users database and the affiliate plugin so we need to keep the “username” field’s character set limited to what both the WordPress users database and the affiliate plugin will accept.

[SanDiegoWebGuy]

I was able to modify the registration page myself. I simply forced it to validate that the username was an email and modified the email field, which now validates as equal to the the user name field, and [strong]disabled[/strong] the plug-in’s ability to create a WordPress account. Without that, there’s no longer a conflict. I also added a second password field to verify the password.

If you’re interested in what/where, here’s the scoop:

open wp-eMembereMember_registration_utils.php

Find the eMember rego form, around line 592.

<table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="forms">

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_user_name"  class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_USERNAME;?>: </label></td>

<td><input type="text" id="wp_emember_user_name" name="wp_emember_user_name" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_user_name'];?>" class="validate[required,custom[onlyLetterNumberUnderscore],minSize[4]<?php echo $letter_number_underscore?>,ajax[ajaxUserCall]] eMember_text_input" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_pwd" class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_PASSWORD;?>: </label></td>

<td><input type="password" id="wp_emember_pwd" name="wp_emember_pwd" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_pwd'];?>" class="validate[required,minSize[4]] eMember_text_input" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_email" class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_EMAIL;?>: </label></td>

<td><input type="text" id="wp_emember_email" name="wp_emember_email" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_email'];?>" class="validate[required,custom[email]] eMember_text_input" <?php echo $readonlyemail; ?> /></td>

</tr>

…and replace the code above with this:

<table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="forms">

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_user_name"  class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_USERNAME;?>: *</label></td>

<td><input type="text" id="wp_emember_user_name" name="wp_emember_user_name" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_user_name'];?>" class="validate[required,custom[/email][email]] eMember_text_input" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_email" class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_EMAIL;?>: *</label></td>

<td><input type="text" id="wp_emember_email" name="wp_emember_email" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_email'];?>" class="validate[required,custom[/email][email],equals[wp_emember_user_name]] eMember_text_input" <?php echo $readonlyemail; ?> /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_pwd" class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_PASSWORD;?>: *</label></td>

<td><input type="password" id="wp_emember_pwd" name="wp_emember_pwd" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['wp_emember_pwd'];?>" class="validate[required,minSize[4]] eMember_text_input" /></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><label for="wp_emember_pwd_r" class="eMember_label"><?php echo EMEMBER_PASSWORD_REPEAT ?>: *</label></td>

<td><input type="password" id="wp_emember_pwd_r" name="wp_emember_pwd_r" size="20" value="" class="validate[equals[wp_emember_pwd]] eMember_text_input" />

</td>

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[ferrallradio]

Hi SanDiegoWebGuy,

I’ve implemented your change but am still getting the message that I am using illegal characters in the username. The plugins ability to create WP account has been disabled and I’ve toggled to make sure there wasn’t a bad cache or anything.

Thanks

[ashleyseagrape]

Hello,

I have tried this code and I am running into the same issue as @ferrallradio.

I am able to enter in an email address as the username without the field pop up message, but once I click the Register button, an error messages appears at the top of the form: “Username:Only Letter, Number and Underscore allowed.”

I have also done the regex alterations suggested in this post to allow all characters: https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/spaces-hyphens-and-commas-in-username

My updated regex line looks like this:

"onlyLetterNumberUnderscore": {

"regex": /^[.]+$/,

"alertText": "* "+'<?php echo EMEMBER_ALPHA_NUMERIC_UNDERSCORE;?>'

Is this correct? What am I missing to allow email addresses to be used as the username?

Thanks in advance!

[nur]

There is one more thing to do before you can use email as user name. for that, open eMember_registration_utils.php and search for the following line of code:

$validator->add(array('value'=>$_POST['wp_emember_user_name'],'label'=>EMEMBER_USERNAME,'rules'=>array('user_required','user_minlength','alphanumericunderscore','user_unavail')));

Once you find it, remove “alphanumericunderscore” from rules list. This should allow you to register using email in the username field.

Hope this helps.

[ashleyseagrape]

Awesome!! That totally worked! Thanks so much for your help.

I also have a related question. Not sure if I should start a new thread for this or not..

Now that the Username can be an email address, is it possible to have the Username field automatically filled with the email address the same way the email address field is auto filled?

I am using the “confirm email address” option, so I am referring to the registration page you get to from the link in the email.

Thanks again!

[ashleyseagrape]

Oh I just figured it out… I just replaced:

value=”<?php echo $_POST;?>”

with

value=”<?php echo $_POST;?>”

Thanks again for your help!!

[mattbarry]

Does this still work in the latest release of the plugin? I have tried it but the ‘Only letters,numbers etc is allowed’ message still pops up.

[admin]

We are actually going to make this an option in our plugin soon. So don’t worry about doing any tweaks now. Just wait for a week then we should have that work done.

[mattbarry]

Excellent! Thank you

[cko]

perfect, waiting for it – how can i get the update when it’s ready?

[robthecomputerguy]

I’m on 8.8.2 currently but I don’t see this feature listed yet, can I find out if it’s been added yet?

SOOOOOOOOO excited about having this built in.

Thanks!!

[admin]

We are going to turn it on by default in our next version. So that username field will also allow email address values (in addition to everything else it used to accept).

[mauro7219]

Hello to all. I’m a big fan of emember. When will it possible login with the email?

[Author]

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