I would prefer that way.. I what controller function? I'm using in
form from default/user but I'm using a customauth

On Dec 9, 3:02 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rather than write a whole new method, one trick might be in the login
> controller function, check the incoming request.vars.username to see if it
> is an email address (using the IS_EMAIL validator). Then, depending on
> that, dynamically set auth.settings.login_userfield to either 'email' or
> 'username', and then call auth.login() as usual.
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> On Friday, December 9, 2011 9:50:02 AM UTC-5, Francisco Costa wrote:
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> > yes, i think I'm going to build a custom method for login with
> > username or email
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> > On Dec 9, 2:13 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Are you saying you want users to be able to login with either their
> > > username or their email address? For that, I think you might need a
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> > > login method. On the other hand, if you simply want to allow users to
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> > > a username, but always login with email address, you should be able to
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> > > auth.settings.login_userfield = 'email'
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> > > Anthony
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> > > On Friday, December 9, 2011 7:22:57 AM UTC-5, Francisco Costa wrote:
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> > > > lots of users on login form submit their email instead of the
> > > > username..
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> > > > it seems that auth.define_tables(username=True) forces username login
> > > > but it is possible to have both?

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