Multiple Accounts on one email adress

[Adin]

Hi there everbody.

Alright, i have a problem. I'm running a Board where many members like to Roleplay in many sections. Most of those people want to have more then one account cause they have more then one Character. So far, so good. Now here's the problem: Yabb denies to register more then one account to the same email adress. On a normal board this would be a feature, but on my board it's simply causing trouble.

Is there a easy way for the members to get more then one account on the same email adress ?

Or could someone please write a mod that kills that email check ?

Thank you so much for any help.

[Valconeye]

where did you get this RPG mod? please you must tell me!!!!!

[Adin]

I believe that this was posted in the wrong thread ?

[Valconeye]

well, it can go in here or in the help board, what i would do (since i have unlimited emails etc) i would have a small script to create email forwarding for members, so all the emails goto their original email. although i think there is a simpler way to do this. seriously please i have been trying to get a rpg mod for AGES!!! i tried to convert the german rpg and it was, well, difficult. got it to install but it doesnt really work.

[Metho]

I believe you'd just comment out this in Register.php:

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   $request = mysql_query("SELECT realName FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE emailAddress='$member[email]'") or database_error(__FILE__, __LINE__);

   if (mysql_num_rows($request) > 0)

      fatal_error("$txt[730] (" . htmlspecialchars($member[email]) . ") $txt[731]");

[Adin]

@Metho:

Ok i'll try that. Thank you

[Adin]

If i change that the following error occurs when someone tries to edit the profile of a account like that:

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An Error Has Occurred!

That email address (email) is being used by a registered member already. If you feel this is a mistake, go to the login page and use the password reminder with that address.

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How do i get rid of that ? I can't find the code that's causing this :/

[Adin]

Ok, sorry ! The problem was found.

This has to be commented out in the profile.php:

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if (mysql_num_rows($request) > 0)
         fatal_error("$txt[730] ($member[email]) $txt[731]");

[Adin]

well, it can go in here or in the help board, what i would do (since i have unlimited emails etc) i would have a small script to create email forwarding for members, so all the emails goto their original email. although i think there is a simpler way to do this. seriously please i have been trying to get a rpg mod for AGES!!! i tried to convert the german rpg and it was, well, difficult. got it to install but it doesnt really work.

I don't have any RPG mods, though. Sorry. The People just RP. LOTR and stuff.

[Shadow's Pawn]

I did this on another board.. yes, you just comment those out in both register.php and profile.php but keep in mind that the forgot password utility will not work properly anymore when using the "by email" option.

Valconeye, he is talking about people doing true role playing, not the Final Fantasy style rpg stuff.

[Adin]

Yeah, you're right. This should be a option. I think a mod is needed of some kind or maybe the dev-team could add a option for this in SMF, maybe ?

Otherwise the whole Password by email stuff is rather worthless for me now :/

Thanks to all of you for the help anyways, it gave me the one hint i needed to find the lines in the profile.php