Remove / Replace the username field with email using FOSUserBundle in Symfony2 / Symfony3

Question

I only want to have email as mode of login, I don\'t want to have username. Is it possible with symfony2/symfony3 and FOSUserbundle?

I read here http://groups.google

Answer 1

As Michael points out, this can be solved with a custom validation group. For example:

fos_user:
    db_driver: orm
    firewall_name: main
    user_class: App\UserBundle\Entity\User
    registration:
        form:
            type: app_user_registration
            validation_groups: [AppRegistration]

Then in your entity (as defined by user_class: App\UserBundle\Entity\User) you can use the AppRegistration group:

class User extends BaseUser {

    /**
     * Override $email so that we can apply custom validation.
     * 
     * @Assert\NotBlank(groups={"AppRegistration"})
     * @Assert\MaxLength(limit="255", message="Please abbreviate.", groups={"AppRegistration"})
     * @Assert\Email(groups={"AppRegistration"})
     */
    protected $email;
    ...

This is what I ended up doing after posting that reply to the Symfony2 thread.

See http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/book/validation.html#validation-groups for full details.