Make Custom Profile fields into username

[JoshFink]

On our board we require the users first and last name to be their userid. I would like them to, on registration, just fill in their first name and last name in a custom profile field and not fill in the username field at all.

Is this possible? Is there already something out there like this? I have been search but haven't been able to find anything.

Thanks

Josh

[UManiac]

I need something similar - I have created two custom fields - First Name and Last Name and want these to display everywhere the userId would normally display.

Like welcome back First Last instead of Welcome back userID...

Anyone know how?

[JoshFink]

Well, that's a little easier if you don't mind them having the userid of something else. You just need to search through the templates for userid and replace with something such as thread[profile1]thread[profile2].

I need to make sure that the user id IS the first name and last name.