Required fields for registration

[MichalPB1]

Hi, Have you thought about adding the option of registering a user by username or email? Currently both fields are required. In a situation where we do not need a username, registration is not possible because UserModel has validations as follows:

    protected $validationRules = [
        'email'         => 'required|valid_email|is_unique[users.email,id,{id}]',
        'username'      => 'required|alpha_numeric_space|min_length[3]|is_unique[users.username,id,{id}]',
        'password_hash' => 'required',
    ];

[michalsn]

I'm not sure if there is a need for providing a special config for this. I would just publish AuthController and make a one-liner change in attemptRegister() method, like:

$user = new User($this->request->getPost());
$user->username = $user->email;

That should work.

Besides that, right now we kind of require the email field to be there since there is no other channel for register or reset the password.

[michalsn]

I advised you poorly here. It wasn't so easy as I described because of the rules in UserModel... and you even mentioned it :)

Anyway... luckily for you I prepared a PR for CodeIgniter core, and it was merged, so you can now change this validation rules in model dynamically, via $model->setValidationRule($name, $rules) - sorry, idk if there is a dev build of the user guide, so here are the details.

[MichalPB1]

Hehe :) Thanks for the info

I have temporarily overwritten UserModel and changed the validation rules. The controller needed to be overwritten anyway, so it wasn't too bad. But I'll look at this new functionality

[lonnieezell]

Another solution is to extend the UserModel with your own App\Models\UserModel and override the settings there. Something that I typically do, anyway, so that I can add custom fields and methods to the model.