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Does anyone out there know of a way to hack the members module or the system core to allow multiple users to have the same email address, without breaking the password recovery feature?

This was an option that was disabled in an early version of EE2, and I desperately need it back.

Hi Poster,

Yes, there is hack for it.
You need to go into the file system/expressionengine/libraries/Validate.php and look for method validate_email(). In this method you can comment the code which is checking for duplicate emails.

Hope this would help you.

Best Regards,

Thank You Bhashkar!

It also required a change to the system/expressionengine/libraries/EE_Form_validation.php file.

But I think that did it.

glad to know it. 😊

Argh!

The xml member import tool still checks for multiple emails! 😠

Poster, which tool or add-on you are using for the XML member import?

I’m on version 2.2.2, using the standard Member Import Utility under
Tools/Utilities/Import Utilities/Member Import Utility

Hi Poster,

I was thinking that you are using any third-party add-on.

To overcome this, please go into the file system/expressionengine/controllers/cp/tools_utilities.php and look into the method validate_xml().

Hope here you can check code which are validating for duplicate email address.

Best Regards,

I could not find a third-party add-on to batch import members. There used to be one for EE1, but it was never ported to EE2.

If you have any add-ons to suggest, please do so, because the member import utility that comes with EE2 is quite tiresome to use.

Hi Poster,

I also had investigated for third-party add-on but couldn’t able to fine.

Could you please follow my previous post to put some hack into the file system/expressionengine/controllers/cp/tools_utilities.php within the method validate_xml().

I hope, it would help you to import the member with EE2 tool as par your requirement ....

I found some code at line 827 of my EE version, so I commented out the logic that checked the email submitted against an array of the current emails registered. I’ll try it out next week and report back.

case 'email':
        //if ( ! in_array($tag->value, $e))
        //{
         $e[] = $tag->value;
        //}
        //else
        //{
        // $this->errors[] = array(lang('duplicate_email').$tag->value);
        //}
        $this->validate->email = $tag->value;
        break;

Success!

That last bit worked on the Member Import module.

😊

great !!! glad to know 😊