[support] Users without email addresses?

[Metzler, David]

If you end up writing your own module, then you also want to look at: 

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/user_save/

Which is the function that these modules should use for createing new
users. 

Dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Daniel Carrera
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:54 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Users without email addresses?

Thanks!

Both of these options are better than what we are doing now. The first
one (user_import) seems to be the closest to what I need. I hope that
they make a Drupal 6 version before I migrate to Drupal 6.

Daniel.

Marc Poris wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> Take a look at http://drupal.org/project/user_import and 
> http://drupal.org/project/userplus -- they will either provide 
> something good enough for your purposes or they'll give you a nice 
> head start on writing your own code.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an unusual problem:
>>
>> We provide a service for schools. Students make Drupal accounts and 
>> use it to do a school project. Problem is, many students don't have 
>> email and indeed, the school doesn't *want* the students to have 
>> email. Worse, they want the teacher to create the student accounts.
>>
>> I don't like this, yes it's stupid, but there is no chance of me 
>> changing their mind about this. I'm hoping that someone here might 
>> help me find a good solution for this problem.
>>
>> As part of the service, we have a custom web application that I
wrote. 
>> This application already has a record of all the students and 
>> teachers and schools. So, for example, I could consider using this 
>> application to insert new users into the Drupal database. The teacher

>> clicks a button that says "make Drupal accounts for all my students" 
>> and a PHP script makes the accounts.
>>
>> Could that work?
>>
>> Personally, I am afraid of editing the Drupal database directly, but 
>> perhaps there is a safe API I can use? Or is it reasonably safe to 
>> insert records into the Drupal database by hand?
>>
>> I can see problems with this idea (e.g. what do I use as user names? 
>> Student names are not unique). But I can't think of anything better. 
>> Does anyone have a better idea?
>>
>>
>> I don't really know any good way to solve this problem. The problem 
>> is not urgent. For the time being we can get a staff member with 
>> admin access to create student accounts using fake email addresses. 
>> But I hope to find a better long-term solution.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Daniel.
>>   
> 
> 

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