Suggestion for Email as Username

Hi Tuan,

I like this new feature and have another idea.

What if instead of "Use Email as Username", we still allow the new user to create a username and we change the option to "Allow sign-in with email".

This way, the user can either use their username or email address to sign in – this is good because people tend to forget usernames; this will also let us keep a username on file in case we want to have a forum (or something) that uses usernames for names.

Thanks,
Elliot

Hi Elliot

With this feature, user can still login using email or username. If you want to allow users to enter both username and email for the registration and want to allow users to login using either email or username, I think there are third party plugin which supports this feature already

Tuan

Hi Tuan,

Thanks! After doing some research, I found Awo Email Login which fits our needs.

Elliot

Could you send the link to that plugin here? It should be useful for other customers who needs this feature

Tuan

Yes,

extensions.joomla.org/extension/awo-email-login

Elliot

I came across this one: Email as Username . This says it's compatible with Membership Pro. It looks like a good idea: anyone got experience using it?

I use the awo extension. It works very well.

Thanks for that Alan. I see one review of awo says:

Users don't need to use their username with this plugin to login. If they forget their password however, they still do need to use their username to enter the verification code in the forgot password process. So it doesn't allow you to use email as username everywhere you need to.

Do you know if it is correct in saying that you still need your username if you forget your password?

With or without Awo, when I initiate a forgot password, it only asks for an email address.

Maybe that was an earlier version of Joomla?

E

Ah. You could well be right - the comment was posted on 05 August 2013.