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How to auto generate username from first and last name?

Vinnie Barbarino
Participant

@viniciusb

10 years ago

I’m trying to create a registration page with ‘first name’, ‘last name’, ’email’ and ‘password’, without the need for the user to create a username.

The username would be autogenerated off of the user’s first and last name. E.g. If user’s name is John Doe, his username would be automatic created as ‘john_doe’.

If another user registered with that same name, username “john_doe_1” would be created – as WP does with images.

I know this is possible because that is how “Login/Register with FB plugins” do.

A plugin that did that would be ideal, but I couldn’t find anything.

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Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

10 years ago

Just do something like this: $username = $first . '_' . $last;

If you need to check a username exists, you can do: if ( username_exists( $username ) )

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