[development] Insert users from script?

[Victor Kane]

The only check you want to watch out for is if the email already exists (you
don't want two users with the same email, that's a check Drupal does when
you create a new user interactively).

Forage for the code in the user.module.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Matt West <mjw at our-hometown.com> wrote:

> 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)
>>
>
>
> --
> Matt West
> Software Developer
> Our Hometown, Inc
> mjw at our-hometown.com
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20091202/2ad0529b/attachment-0001.html