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Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

meltingdog — Mar 17, 2015, 01:42 AM

I've built a site with the Login plugin and it works great. However, the client has requested that users be able to login user their email address instead of username. I checked out the Login RTFM but couldnt see anyway of achieving this.

Would anyone know if this is possible and, if so, how?

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

chris.dempsey78 — Mar 17, 2015, 01:15 PM

You probably need to sanitise $useremail more thoroughly than that.

In my tired state, and viewing on a phone it looks like you're putting user input directly into a MySQL query.

Maybe with

if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false)

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin? (Best Answer)

meltingdog — Mar 17, 2015, 06:27 AM

If anyone is interested I was able to do this by using AJAX. There is probably a much better way of doing this but I am not sure how.

Modified lgnLoginTpl:


    [[+errors]]
    
        
            
                [[+actionMsg]]
                
                Email Address
                    
                
                
                    
                
                [[%login.password]]
                    
                
                

                [[+login.recaptcha_html]]

AJAX Chunk:

AJAX PHP

query($query);

if ($result) {
     
    while ($resultrow = $result->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
        $userid = $resultrow['id'];
        
        $query2 = "SELECT * FROM `modx_users` WHERE `id` = '$userid'";
        $result2 = $modx->query($query2);
        
        if ($result2) {
            while ($result2row = $result2->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
                $username = $result2row['username'];
                sendSuccess($username);
            }
        }
          
    }
}

function sendSuccess($msg) {
	$result = array('res' => 1, 'msg' => $msg);
	sendResponse($result);
}

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

meltingdog — Mar 17, 2015, 06:17 AM

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 17, 2015, 08:21 AM

You shouldn't need Ajax, just a plugin attached to OnWebAuthentication (and/or OnManagerAuthentication).

Thanks BobRay, but this is probably a bit too advanced for me (I'm not very familiar with Modx's inner workings).

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

BobRay — Mar 17, 2015, 03:21 AM

You shouldn't need Ajax, just a plugin attached to OnWebAuthentication (and/or OnManagerAuthentication).

Something like this (untested):

if (strpos($username, '@') !== false) {
    $profile = $modx->getObject('modUserProfile', array('email' => $username));
    if ($profile) {
        $usr = $profile->getOne('User');
        if ($usr) {
           if ($usr->passwordMatches($password)) {
              return true;
           }
        }
    }
}

return false;

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

meltingdog — Mar 17, 2015, 02:18 AM

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 17, 2015, 07:11 AM

You can use the email address as the username to begin with, but I don't know of any way to use the email address if the user is already set up to have a separate username and email address.

I suppose you could create a plugin using OnBeforeWebLogin to take the email from the login form, get that user's username and replace the form value with the username and complete the login. But unless you need a separate username for some reason, it would be a lot easier to just use the email address for the username in the first place.

Thanks Sottwell! Yeah I think I'll have to make something with AJAX where it queries the database and returns their username when they try to login. I will post my code here once done

Re: Any way to login using Email address with Login plugin?

sottwell — Mar 17, 2015, 02:11 AM

You can use the email address as the username to begin with, but I don't know of any way to use the email address if the user is already set up to have a separate username and email address.

I suppose you could create a plugin using OnBeforeWebLogin to take the email from the login form, get that user's username and replace the form value with the username and complete the login. But unless you need a separate username for some reason, it would be a lot easier to just use the email address for the username in the first place.