From 8753af280cf66bfe1924634074562b34e09965e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryan <ryan@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:24:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Return user ID if email exists.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@3753 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/registration-functions.php | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/registration-functions.php b/wp-includes/registration-functions.php
index 4805f45dac..59849e30da 100644
--- a/wp-includes/registration-functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/registration-functions.php
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ function username_exists( $username ) {
 function email_exists( $email ) {
 	global $wpdb;
 	$email = addslashes( $email );
-	$email_exists = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT user_email FROM $wpdb->users WHERE user_email = '$email'");
-	if ( $email_exists)
-		return true;
+	return $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users WHERE user_email = '$email'");
 }
 
 function validate_username( $username ) {