Force client to choose username for DirectAdmin accounts

[Gears]

Hello,

 

Instead of having the username be the first 8 chars of the domain, we want to force the customer to choose his/her username. I was told we must use ActionHooks since the php file is encoded. I have visited http://wiki.whmcs.com/Action_Hooks but I am not sure how to implement it.

 

Inside actionhooks.php I see the following function:

function actionhook_AfterModuleCreate($vars) {

# This function runs when a module creation command completes successfully - various variables available

}

 

But this function runs after the create command completes successfully.

 

I started by creating a custom field [ProductCustom-Username] and made it visible in the order process and also required. Now I just need to make the module create command use [ProductCustom-Username] as the username instead of the default first 8 chars of the domain.

 

Can anyone shed some light as to how we can achieve this using ActionHooks? Thank you in advance.

[LemonBarley]

i agreed, i also prefer to have my clients choosing a username. I dont like the way where first 8 character is used. I got funny clients complainting that their username sucks.

 

For example i have a client domain http://www.iamemoforever.com and his user is iamemofo he say he cant remember it. and i have to delete his account and remake it again. so sucks...

[guestsrl]

For example i have a client domain http://www.iamemoforever.com and his user is iamemofo he say he cant remember it. and i have to delete his account and remake it again. so sucks...

 

Why delete it?

You can change username from WHMCS and then rename user from DirectAdmin...

 

But I agree with changes to username creation alghoritm.

 

I prefere a numerical random ID, like 45345, 65646, and so on...

[redrat]

iamemofo

"I am a mofo"

 

Hilarious!