Auto Username - Request

[Rose]

I've a request. I've been combing the hacks db, and haven't found it yet, so here we go. Many thanks to my husband who inspired me to think of this (if it's not been thought of before, of course)

Anyway...I want my members to use their first and last name for their username (it's a private, member's only board). However, for whatever reason, some of these people aren't grasping that concept and they are coming up with off-the-wall usernames which makes it really hard for other members to use the member list to effectively find them.

Basically what I want is this - upon registration instead of having a "username" field, I want two fields - "First Name" and "Last Name". Upon registration, these two fields would be kept separately for sorting (details below), but it would generate a username for the member - obviously displaying the username so they know how to log back in. If I were to register with my first and last name like so - "Rose" and "Schmuckatelli", it'd generate a username for me like "Rose Schmuckatelli" (Space in between is preferred).

Now, the reason I want the first & last name fields to be kept separate is so that members can easily search the memberlist either by "First" or "Last" name sort orders.

So, this might be two hacks, it might be one big(ish) hack. But is anyone intersted?