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Use this plugin

… its for LOGIN not Registering.

logging in yeah, i can use it but first I need users with an email as username

That’s just a matter of restructuring the registration form (version 1.0 now, currently upgrading to 1.1.3). You can autogenerate the username from the fullname using this javascript trick and then hide the username field.

Hacking core files to actually put email addresses in the username fields in the database is a recipe for disaster. Why do you want to do that? What am I missing?

You don’t have to convince me why it makes sense to use email address instead of username. This post was the start of a long a painful process for me. Trust me, that plugin does what you need and then all you need to do is restructure the form and pick a fix for the user URL etc.

The plugin works with or without any other trickery; it uses the email in the database for authentication and ignores the username. Try it on an unmodified installation. Works fine.

The username is unnecessary. That’s why many modern sites don’t use them anymore. In WP/BP you still need something in the username database field because all kinds of functions rely on it, like the profile URL in BP or the ‘forgot password’ process. So you can’t just remove it entirely.

My solution is to generate a username onkeyup from the fullname via Javascript on the registration form, hidden from view. In an earlier attempt I used a script that just autogenerated a gibberish username.

This is perfect thanks @rfauster

I realise this is a pretty old post now, and I have done what is mentioned here (including the email login plugin)

It works perfectly, however the URL for a users profile is now http://sitename.com/members/e2cd18d97f62a5432557784b2f7e68957ad0f42e//profile

I understand that email address wont work here, is there anything I Can do to make this more SEO friend/pretty?

Thanks,

Ian

@applegateian you won’t be able to remove the username from the URL because BP needs a unique string. If you had 3 or 4 users with the same display name then that would cause URL conflicts.

Hi @applegateian with user display name you have the problem of spaces in the URLs. I suppose it is possible but in my view it would mean quite a bit of custom code.

Thanks again @henrywright-1

Well I have a plugin – except that I can’t be arsed to release it as a plugin at the moment so I’ll just cut&paste the code here.

2 things:
1. it doesn’t replace the wp-email-login plugin or the login for hack above – it adds to them by simply forcing the username to be the same a field pulled from the Xprofile.
2. It’s hardwired to a specific field name in @applegateian’s project. You’ll need to edit the code to use your own field name because, like I say, I haven’t got time to turn it into a proper plugin. When I find the enthusiasm to do it properly I’ll create a plugin settings menu and stuff.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: XProfile to username

Plugin URI: http://
Description: Created for a specific project, this plugin copies a field from the user's Xprofile totheir username, ensuring first that it is unique by adding a digit to te end

Version: 0.1

Author: Saul Cozens

Author URI: http://saulcozens.co.uk/wordpress

*/

function xprofile_to_username($xp) {

global $wpdb;

$field_id = BP_XProfile_Field::get_id_from_name(‘Name/Company Name’);

	if(!$field_id || $xp==null) {

return;

	}

if($field_id == $xp->field_id) { // cover me, I’m going in

		$new_username=strtolower(preg_replace('/[^\w\d]/','-', $xp->value));

$existing_user_by_that_username=get_user_by(‘login’, $new_username);

		if($existing_user_by_that_username && ($existing_user_by_that_username->ID !== $xp->user_id )) { // another user already has that login

$i=1;

			while(get_user_by('login', $new_username."-$i")) {

$i+=1;

			}

$new_username.=”-$i”;

		}

$wpdb->update($wpdb->users, array(‘user_login’ => $new_username), array(‘ID’ => $xp->user_id));

		return;

}

}

add_action(‘xprofile_data_after_save’,’xprofile_to_username’);

?>

Just put this is a file called xprofile-to-username.php in a folder called xprofile-to-username, activate it and Bob’s your uncle. Every time the user’s profile gets updated, their username will mirror the xprofile field (with hyphen instead of funny characters and numbers to remove any duplicates).

Enjoy.