Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

The problem with this mod is anonymous customers - in order to order, they need to enter their e-mail address each time, and the system won't allow them to check out as their e-mail already exists in the system. I really don't recommend this method be used until a way is found to allow anon customers to repeat order.

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

That is no problem in my case. We've set up the shop to only allow checkout for users that are logged in (upon customer request).

Is it still possible then to use the piece of code as described in post #90?

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

this is the code that i'm finding in my x-cart, can i still replace the code with the above code and still have it work, i tried changing it to that above using dreamweaver, and then i couldn't login at all, kept on saying invalid login. Should i be using something else to edit my files? New to this and fumbling my way around. the only difference is the WHERE BINARY STATEMENT Thanks

$user_data = func_query_first("SELECT * FROM $sql_tbl[customers] WHERE BINARY login='$username' AND usertype='$usertype' AND status='Y'");

I had changed it to this
$user_data = func_query_first("SELECT * FROM $sql_tbl[customers] WHERE BINARY (login='$username' or email='$username') AND usertype='$usertype' AND status='Y'");

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

Post #64 works fine!

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

I used a combination of posts #64, #67 and #78 to accomplish this. For my test accounts during install, I can still use my username to login with, but for all new customers, or pre-populated customers from an import, email address works for login now.

From a usability standpoint, people are becoming more expectant to use their email address for login purposes, not to mention they are more memorable than a sequentially generated naming convention created by a cart's admin.

Thanks for all your help guys!

Jason Miller

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

I have this problem after i used the code from post #64.

"You have specified an incorrect user name. Only numbers (0-9) and lower-case letters (a-z) can be used. Please correct it. "

What to do?

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

To get this to work in 4.1.x in login.php change:
to

The login script makes additional checks against the username, and it is still set as the email address which will cause those checks to fail until we reset the username to the the actual username.

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

By default, version 4.1.11 and earlier versions of x-cart that have the the latest security patches do not allow anything other than numbers and lowercase letters to be used.
See the thread at http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=41444 for a detailed explanation.

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

Is there any chance this has been updated to work with later versions of X-cart? What we would like to do is eliminate the "username" entirely and have the customer enter an email address and password only.

This would mean a change to register, login, and recover password areas of x-cart. It would also mean that anonymous checkout would have to be disabled.

Anyway, is this something that others would be interested in working on and implementing in 4.1.x and 4.2 versions of X-cart?

Re: Use E-mail address instead of username 3.5.x & 4.0
 

http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=215306&postcount=101

Also, the security patches that came out in the last few months prevent special characters such as @ in the username.