Card Alias. User defineable? [solution]

glitchsys · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:20 am

Card Alias is primarily used as a login to the web interface. Customers should be able to set what they want the card alias to be during the signup process. Then they can get emailed their chosen cardalias as well as their random password to login. Once logged in, they should be able to change their password and/or possibly their cardalias.

Thanks for a great system!

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:16 pm

and ... the card alias may can be letters?

glitchsys · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:13 pm

I have already changed a customer of mine's cardalias to a name and it seemed to have taken. So there are no restrictions in the SQL database about the cardalias having to be an integer.

areski · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:20 am

no in the db but into the webinterface it should be restricted to number.
cardalias is also use to dial out a sip/iax friends that the reason we try
to keep it with digits only.

Rgds, Areski

glitchsys · **Posted:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:42 pm

So it was designed to be like a phone number or "friendly" digits. Ie you could have a 10 digit PIN but a 4 or 5 digit alias or something. Easier for people to dial you?

Is it possible then, to have the customer UI allow people to log in via the PIN or even the email as the userid?

Right now my users have to remember a 6 digit pin for placing calls and a different 6 digit userid for their website login. For customers that ask, I try and set their alias to the PIN number but it's on a 1 by 1 basis.

crshman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:06 am

UPDATED!!!!! 2/1/07

Hello,

Well i found another option for this....it works and it's easy....please advise if there are any issues with this fix....

Basically i check email address OR the user alias for the web login....here's how:

change this file:

...../a2customer/lib/module.access.php line 118

FROM

Code:

if (strlen($user)==0 || strlen($user)>=20 || strlen($pass)==0 || strlen($pass)>=20) return false;

TO

Code:

if (strlen($user)==0 || strlen($user)>=50 || strlen($pass)==0 || strlen($pass)>=50) return false;

...../a2customer/lib/module.access.php line 120

FROM

Code:

$QUERY = "SELECT username, credit, activated, id, id_didgroup, tariff, vat, activatedbyuser FROM cc_card WHERE useralias = '".$user."' AND uipass = '".$pass."'";

TO

Code:

$QUERY = "SELECT username, credit, activated, id, id_didgroup, tariff, vat, activatedbyuser FROM cc_card WHERE (email = '".$user."' OR useralias = '".$user."') AND uipass = '".$pass."'";

There you have it now a user can login with their email address....

anonymous_a · **Joined:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:11 am **Posts:** 426

Nice job, crshman! Thank you!

JustMe · **Joined:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:06 pm **Posts:** 94

*Pats crshman on the back

infomate · **Joined:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:44 pm **Posts:** 14

Very nice... got it working too.

cyberglobe · **Joined:** Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:23 am **Posts:** 93

problem:

when someone now signs up with the same email address with a different account, what happens?

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