[development] Insert users from script?

[Matt West]

Gastón,

You can do this programmatically by creating a separate script that  
bootstraps Drupal. Something like:

if (($handle = fopen("file.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
     while (($data = fgetcsv($handle)) !== FALSE) {
         // Set vars to the appropriate indexes from the .csv, you'll  
need to customize this
         list($user, $pass, $mail) = $data;

         // Create the user array
         $new_user = array(
           'name' => $user,
           'pass' => $pass,
           'mail' => $mail,
           'status' => 1,
           'init' => $mail,
         );

         if(!user_load($new_user)) { // Make sure the user doesn't  
already exist
           // If you want to assign a role
           $roles = user_roles();
           $new_user['roles'] = array(array_search('your_roll_name',  
$roles) => 1);

           // Save the user
           $new_user = user_save(null, $new_user);
         }
     }
     fclose($handle);
}



On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Gastón Pablo Pérez wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have data for several persons in an excel file and i would like to  
> convert all of these people in users in my drupal 6. Somebody knows  
> how can i do this? The idea is that not to have to create the users  
> one by one, maybe i would have to make an sql script to include the  
> users in one time, but i don't know in which tables I have to  
> include the data and some other things for example, how have i to  
> set the password? (this is encrypted in the database field)


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Matt West
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