question abourt insert users accounts
By tiago
I need to insert the user accounts directly in the database, I have the data in an Excel spreadsheet, I enter just the name, username and password.
Does anyone have any idea if this is possible, enter the data directly in the table users_entity?
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You must log in to post replies.You could write a plugin (if it doesn't already exist) that iterates through your CSV (easily exported from exel) passing the data into the register_user() method.
As Daniel says, use the Elgg api. You can't just insert into one table and expect that to work.
does anyone know if there is any plugin that does that?
There is a plugin called Upload Users (http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/naakka/read/384770/upload-users). Unfortunately, I haven't had time to test that on Elgg 1.7 or upgrade it for some time. But we used it succesfully in Elgg 1.5.