2 users, same email

[gregw]

Many of my users are husband/wives and need two accounts, but they share an email address.  YabbSE won't let you register with the same email. It would be nice to be able to allow this as an admin function.

Greg

[Michele]

Eek! I would never share my email address with my husband! LOL, I have 5 of my own as it is (6 if you count "webmaster@").

Seriously, don't most IPs allow you more than one email address nowadays? We've got 5 from my ISP and unlimited ones from my web site host...

However, you can tell one of them to just get a hotmail or yahoo address and use that to register.

Have fun, MM

[gregw]

I know that, and you know that...but I've had to practically beg my users to come to the site.  Most of them aren't "experienced" computer users, and ask them to create another email account would be just another reason for them not to join.

Just one little checkbox, that's all I'm asking under the preferences:

[ ] Allow duplicate emails for users

[Gobalopper]

Ok here is a quick way to do it:

Remove from Register.php

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       $request = mysql_query("SELECT realName FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE emailAddress='$member[email]'");
        if (mysql_num_rows($request) > 0)
                fatal_error("$txt[730] ($member[email]) $txt[731]");
and remove from Profile.php

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               $request = mysql_query("SELECT ID_MEMBER FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE (memberName!='$member[user]' &&  emailAddress='$member[email]')");
                if (mysql_num_rows($request) > 0)
                        fatal_error("$txt[730] ($member[email]) $txt[731]");
That should work... but I haven't tested it as I don't want this on my boards.

[gregw]

so far it seems to work.  Thanks!
Greg