Merge customer duplicates

[neosymptom]

Hi,

 

I´m looking for a contribution to merge customer adresses. Some customers create more than one account and I want to merge these adresses to one customer account. Is there a contribution to perform this action in the admin menue?

 

How can I prevent that customers create more than one account?

 

Thanks!

Werner

[Guest]

accounts are differentiated by the email_address.

 

The code that checks this is in catalog\create_account.php

	  $check_email_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as total from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_email_address = '" . tep_db_input($email_address) . "'");
  $check_email = tep_db_fetch_array($check_email_query);
  if ($check_email['total'] > 0) {
	$error = true;

	$messageStack->add('create_account', ENTRY_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ERROR_EXISTS);
  }

 

so if you need to check by street address you could add an extra check for the address_book table. Although theoretically 2 different customers may have the same street address.

 

Instead you could add some code to delete accounts automatically if the user is not logged in for a specific period. Haven't seen a contribution though.