Miscellaneous Hacks - Login via Email

Ok, basically I wanted to allow users to login via email. This is cheap and straight to the point, so feel free to add to this.

Unfortunately I could not find a hook to use for this, so I hacked my login.html.

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'login')
{
    $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
        'vb_login_username' => TYPE_STR,
        'vb_login_password' => TYPE_STR,
        'vb_login_md5password' => TYPE_STR,
        'vb_login_md5password_utf' => TYPE_STR,
        'postvars' => TYPE_STR,
        'cookieuser' => TYPE_BOOL,
        'logintype' => TYPE_STR,
        'cssprefs' => TYPE_STR,
    ));
    
    if (isset($_POST['vb_login_username'])) {
        $status = eregi(
                "^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,5})$",
                $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username']
        );
        if ($status !== FALSE) { 
            $query = "SELECT username FROM vb3_user WHERE email = '%s'";
            $query = sprintf($query, $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username']);

            $_resp = $db->query_read($query);
            $_user = $db->fetch_row($_resp);
            $_user = (string) @$_user[0];
            
            if (empty($_user) === FALSE) {
                $_POST['vb_login_username'] = $_user;
            }
            //var_dump($_user, $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username']);
            //exit;
        }
    }

     // can the user login?
     // to be continued. 

Hope this helps someone.

[radarhunter]

but atleast you could tell how to apply this mod ???

[Hornstar]

Is this finished? how exactly can a user login through their email?

[succo]

as far as i can see, this allows a user to login (in the forum website, of course) using the couple email_address/password instead of username/password

you need to edit login.php to make it work, changing the part starting with

if ($_POST['do'] == 'login')

[Till]

Originally Posted by succo

as far as i can see, this allows a user to login (in the forum website, of course) using the couple email_address/password instead of username/password

you need to edit login.php to make it work, changing the part starting with

if ($_POST['do'] == 'login')

Thanks for the heads up, succo!

I edited the original post to make "login.html" bold.

So please, if anyone is interested, just read what I wrote. ;-)

Questions, comments, feedback? I am all ears.

[COBRAws]

no explanation at all

[ianskate]

nice... im afraid to try this on my active forum but i might install another vb forum soon and will try it out on that.

i also have a related thread here asking the same topic but without hacking the source:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...22#post1357022

[ianskate]

for the record, this works very nicely.

to those whom say there is no explanation - u need to open the login.php file in ur forum folder on ur server, and just insert the code above where Till stated. its just a simple copy and paste, the only thing you need to edit is your user table name.

if you cant for some reason find that spot in your code, just do a search (ctrl + F) in the file for the line

if ($_POST['do'] == 'login')

and paste appropriately. :up:

[Ghanem]

Thank you, its working fine with 3.7.3 too