Using your Email Address as Your Drupal Username
Thursday, December 29th, 2011By: Matt Grasmick
It can be difficult to remember all of the usernames and passwords that you use to log in to various websites across the internet, so why force users to create a new username for your web site? It’s easier on everyone to simply combine the username and email address fields. It also cleans up your registration form a bit.
In Drupal, there are two modules that can help you to accomplish this:
These two modules are mutually exclusive— they are not compatible with each other, so you’ll have to pick one. I prefer to use Email Registration, and I’ll explain why.
Email Registration
Email Registration simplifies the user registration form by removing the ‘username’ field. By default, the module will automatically generate a username for a new user based upon the first part (before the @) of his/her email address. For example, if I registered for a new account with email address madmatter23@grasmash.com, I would end up with username madmatter23.













