Other opinions?
Javi
On Apr 3, 2:26 pm, Tom Haskins-Vaughan <t...@templestreetmedia.com>
wrote:
> Hi Javi,
>
> While some good points are made in that post, I'm not too concered,
> and I will continue to store emails in the username field.
>
> "If you store email in username field, you have to be really careful
> when using other plugins that depend on sfGuardPlugin, because chances
> are, they’d display the email stored in username field publicly."
>
> I fully agree. However, some plugins provide config to determine which
> field to display. If they don't you can always override the username
> getter to return a nickname field or something.
>
> public function getUsername()
> {
> return $this->Profile->nickname;
>
> }
>
> "It is also not ‘natural’ to code things like:
> $this->sendEmailTo($user->getUsername());"
>
> Again, if you don't have an email field there's nothing stopping you
> creating a 'virtual getter':
>
> public function getEmail()
> {
> return $this->username;
>
> }
>
> I'd be interested to hear what other people think on this issue.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Tom
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:46 AM,JavierGarcia<tirengar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read this (look the paragraph called "AVOID USING USERNAME FIELD FOR
> > STORING EMAIL!"):
>
> >http://bluehorn.co.nz/2009/04/29/implementing-email-login-with-sfguar...
>
> > Is that true?
>
> > Javi
>
> > On Apr 2, 5:27 am, Tom Haskins-Vaughan <t...@templestreetmedia.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Why don't you just store the email in the username field?
>
> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:07 AM,JavierGarcia<tirengar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
>
> >> > sfGuardUser model of sfDoctrineGuardPlugin is defined this way:
>
> >> > sfGuardUser:
> >> > actAs: [Timestampable]
> >> > columns:
> >> > id:
> >> > type: integer(4)
> >> > primary: true
> >> > autoincrement: true
> >> > username:
> >> > type: string(128)
> >> > notnull: true
> >> > unique: true
>
> >> > As you can see 'username' has the feature "notnull:true". Now i want
> >> > to create a register form that is not using 'username' but the email
> >> > address of the user.
>
> >> > When a user wants to register, it is showed this:
>
> >> > Validation failed in class sfGuardUser
> >> > 1 field had validation error:
> >> > * 1 validator failed on username (notnull)
>
> >> > Any idea?
>
> >> > Javi
>
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