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(* Update: This article is for Symfony 1.0, for Symfony 1.2 implementation go to Symfony 1.2, Propel, and sfGuardPlugin: email login)

Most of us use sfGuardPlugin with Symfony Framework for user management (login stuffs). It is a great, popular, and de facto plugin for doing user management in Symfony.

Here’s the thing, by default, sfGuardPlugin does login using usernames, not emails. But for many projects, it is preferable and more suitable to use email for login.

In this article I would like to discuss a way to implement email login using Symfony. I’ve only tried this in Symfony 1.0, but this might/should work on 1.1 and 1.2. And I would be very interested to know your experience if you try this method on Symfony 1.1 or Symfony 1.2 Read more…

Symfony Framework sfGuardPlugin, symfony 1.0, Symfony Resources