Login with E-mail and not with username

[Giangy94]

Hi,
today i'm working about a modification for login into the forum, this modification allows you to login with email and not with username.
In the header_welcomblock_guest I replaced this:

PHP Code:

<!--    lang.username = "{$lang->login_username}"; 


with

PHP Code:

<!--    lang.username = "Email"; 


and in the file functions_user.php i replaced this:

PHP Code:

function user_exists($uid)
{
    global $db;
    
    $query = $db->simple_select("users", "COUNT(*) as user", "uid='".intval($uid)."'", array('limit' => 1));
    if($db->fetch_field($query, 'user') == 1)
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
} 


with this:

PHP Code:

function user_exists($email)
{
    global $db;
    
    $query = $db->simple_select("email", "COUNT(*) as email", "email='".intval($email)."'", array('limit' => 1));
    if($db->fetch_field($query, 'email') == 1)
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
} 


But they don't work

[Yannick]

Hello,

I have create a plugin for this. Please download the Attachment »emaillogin.php« and copy the file into inc » plugins and activate it.

[faviouz]

hmm, may I ask what are the vantages of logging in with email instead of username?

[LeX-]

its more like vB ... like most of the requests you see here =P

[Giangy94]

I wanted create it to release it...I don't want use it

[flash.tato]

Why reinventing the wheel?

Also it seems that you don't have experience, you didn't understand what user_exists does exactly, did you study the code? If you look the param is an integer value and not a string...