louisstanley/ci4-shield-username-suggest

A CodeIgniter 4 Shield extension to suggest usernames based on email addresses.

dev-main 2025-05-04 20:09 UTC

Requires

• codeigniter4/framework: ^4.3
• codeigniter4/shield: ^1.0

Requires (Dev)

• codeigniter4/devkit: ^1.3

MIT

• Louis Stanley

README

A CodeIgniter 4 extension that adds username suggestions to Shield's registration process.

Requirements

• CodeIgniter 4.3+
• CodeIgniter Shield
• PHP 7.4+

Installation

composer require louisstanley/ci4-shield-username-suggest

Quick Setup

1. Copy the Register View Copy the provided register.php view from the package into your CodeIgniter 4 app's views directory. For example:

   cp vendor/louisstanley/ci4-shield-username-suggest/src/Views/register.php app/Views/auth/register.php
   

2. Set the View in Shield Config In your app/Config/Auth.php, set the custom register view path:

   public $views = [
       'register' => 'auth/register',
   ];

This ensures that Shield uses the modified view with username suggestions during registration.

Features

• Generates usernames based on email addresses
• Shows available username options to users
• Allows one-click selection of suggested usernames