Using "Email" field for "First Name" on registration.

[gamestuff]

I am in the process of trimming down the required information for clients to register and would like to move to only being known by email.

 

I have managed to set almost everything as needed, however I find when the "First Name" is blank, it causes issues linking back to clients through tickets as the text simply does not exist.

 

To combat this I set a hidden field:

<input type="hidden" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="Client"/>

 

However this names everyone client, which is not ideal.

 

I have tried using the email variable such as this, however it did not work:

<input type="hidden" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="{$clientemail}"/>

 

 

Does anyone know an easy way to push the "{$clientemail}" variable as the first name upon registration. Maybe I am simply missing something that I am overlooking.

[sentq]

one question: do you need it in admin area only?

if in both admin and client area what about invoices?

 

so you need the client email to be saved in firstname too?

[gamestuff]

Invoices need some tweaking but will only show Email address and no names.

 

Yes, I would like to be able to save the email as both email and firstname at the time of client creation.

[sentq]

if that is what you need so create a new php file we will name it "emailasfirstname.php", and put the following code inside it:

<?php
function hook_addEmailAsFirstName($vars){
$userid = $vars['userid'];$email = $vars['email'];
# Update Client FirstNamefull_query("UPDATE `tblclients` SET `firstname`='{$email}' WHERE `id`='{$userid}'");}add_hook("ClientAdd", 1, "hook_addEmailAsFirstName");?>

then upload it to "WHMCS-Path/includes/hooks/" directory and we are done.

this Hook will be called when client is registered from admin or client area and save his email as his first name, give a try

 

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sorry unable to update my last reply, your code is here:

<?php

function hook_addEmailAsFirstName($vars){
   $userid = $vars['userid'];
   $email = $vars['email'];

   # Update Client FirstName
   $updateclient = full_query("UPDATE `tblclients` SET `firstname`='{$email}' WHERE `id`='{$userid}'");
}
add_hook("ClientAdd", 1, "hook_addEmailAsFirstName");

?>

[gamestuff]

Thanks, this works great.

 

I actually toyed with this a bit but then thought it might be able to be done through the form template. This does indeed work great though.

 

Thanks!