Get information about customer by email id in magento
magento, magento-1.5, magento-1.7, php
Solution
In your system configuration, customer accounts are shared by website, so the `loadByEmail` method needs to be used on a customer model that has a value for `website_id`, and this website ID must correspond to the website to which the customer is associated.
Or, as your controller seems to be an admin one, `Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId()` returns 0, which does not correspond.
So, your solution is either to share customer accounts globally (System > Configuration > Customers > Customer Configuration > Account Sharing Options), as it won't change much things if you only run a single website, either to use a website ID that has to be specified by an user, or at least not retrieved by `Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId()`.
Problem
I want to get information of customer by email id, so i create a method in controller with content: ``` public function showAction(){ $customer_email = "abc@mail.com"; $customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer"); $customer->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId()); $customer->loadByEmail($customer_email); echo $customer->getId(); echo $customer->getFirstName(); echo $customer->getEmail(); } ``` but when run it return null value, i don't know why?. please help me