Just some more info on this - I use http://www.davidcramer.net/code/224/logging-in-with-email-addresses-in-django.html for logging in using emails. There is some discussion of this topic on http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/c943ede66e6807c/2fbf2afeade397eb?pli=1 . And for registration, I generate a username for each user using the code at http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/723/ . This is mostly a rehash of what's been already said, but it seems like a summation of what I can find on the topic currently.
-Saikat On Aug 4, 10:04 pm, Dana Woodman <woodman.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah that seems like the option Ill go with since it is probably the most > clean and future compatible. My user's dont need to log into django admin > anyways so that should suffice. Thanks everyone for the feedback! > > Cheers, > Dana > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com > > > > > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:13 -0700, Dana wrote: > > > Ok, I understand the login part but what about registration? Wouldn't > > > the user's need a username still? Or am I misunderstanding... And what > > > about Django admin, it would still need a username correct? > > > Nothing stops you from creating a random string to populate the username > > field with. It has to contain a unique identifier and it's often useful > > if that is actually identifiable -- perhaps created from an amalgam of > > the user's first and last names or something -- but it could be entirely > > random, providing it is unique. > > > So when you are registering the user, just create a username string > > however you like. The user themselves doesn't have to know or care what > > it is. The thing is, their username won't change, their email address > > might (one of the many small problems with email addresses as unique and > > unchanging identifiers). > > > Regards, > > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
