Fantastic, thanks!

Hmn - Having a slight problem, it's running and displaying the number of records (168) but that's it... any ideas anyone?

Aha, it's obvously getting as far as this:

<?php
    require_once('/var/www/htdocs/engine/start.php');
    global $CONFIG;
    $ordner = "/var/www/htdocs";
    $rb_datei = fopen($ordner."/user.csv", "r");
    if ($rb_datei) {
        $array = explode("\n", fread($rb_datei, filesize($ordner."/user.csv")));
    } 
    $total_array = count($array);
    echo $total_array;  

Then stopping - anyone know why? Could it be to do with my mySQL settings? I think it's all set up properly...

Its import that usernames have a minimun of 4 and passwords have a minimum of 6 characters.

Is there data in the array?

<?php echo vardump($array); ?>

Ah, the data isn't getting into the array for some reason,  echo vardump($array);  returns nothing.

Also, interestingly enough, when I remove all but one record to try importing just that, it returns "2" rather than "1".

I've found a couple of 3 letter usernames and removed them.

Any more ideas?

Have been users imported? No Problem if it returns 2 or 1, modify the counter var :)

No, I'm afraid not - it's still not filling the array.

Here a line of my csv-file:

"charly";"charly";"charly@xxx.de";"plaintextpassword"

Thanks, Here's 2 of mine:

"Aidan Jackson";"aidanj";"aidanjackson@xxx.org";"Passw99"
"Aisling Lyon";"aislingl";"aislinglyon@xxx.org";"Passw99"

But sadly not working :(

Perhaps you can try:

$array = explode("\n\r", fread($rb_datei, filesize($ordner."/user.csv")));

I run under Linux, perhaps you have a windows file

For windows you need:

$array = explode("\r\n", fread($rb_datei, filesize($ordner."/user.csv")));

For MacOS:

$array = explode("\r", fread($rb_datei, filesize($ordner."/user.csv")));

For Linux:

$array = explode("\n", fread($rb_datei, filesize($ordner."/user.csv")));

Or yout path is incorrect, try:

require_once('/Your/path/to/ELGG-root/engine/start.php');
$ordner = "/Your/path/to/ELGG-root";

Thanks for your help Zyon - I'm having some DNS issues at the moment, when I get through them I'll try these variations.

The path is definately right though, thankfully!

Thanks for this helpful contribution. I am facing a slightly different situation. I would need to import about 3000 users BUT :

My passwords are already hashed using MD5. So I would have a file like this

name, username, email, md5/PASSWORD

Any idea about a method I could get through to import those users into the elgg users_entity table ?

Ok .. I checked out with all my available neurones and finally I could get through.

Here is the idea 

i catch the username and password fields from my legacy login page, get the legacy email adress and  name from my existing table and create a new user dynamicaly using :

$guid = register_user($username, $password, $name, $email, false);
        $user = get_entity($guid);    
        $user->enable();
        set_email_validation_status($user->getGUID(), true); 

and so I can get my elgg table incremented when users log into the main login page of the site.

This Elgg is really fantastic ... guess I will probably go further into it and produce a couple of plugin for Mobile phones use and extending the profile capabilities

See U soon

I've found that the register_user method can be a bit flaky; especially when you are iterating over a lot of users (22K in my case). The problems was solved with above script, but tweaked a bit to actually directly invoke the user object methods: I replaced:

        $guid = register_user($username, $password, $name, $email, false);

with

      try {
                $user = new ElggUser();
                             $user->username = $username;
                             $user->email = $email;
                             $user->name = $name;
                             $user->access_id = ACCESS_PUBLIC;
                             $user->salt = generate_random_cleartext_password(); // Note salt generated before password!
                             $user->password = generate_user_password($user, $password);
                             $user->owner_guid = 0; // Users aren't owned by anyone, even if they are admin created.
                             $user->container_guid = 0; // Users aren't contained by anyone, even if they are admin created.
                             $user->save();
                            $guid = $user->getGUID();
            }
            catch ( RegistrationException $e ){
                    echo $e;
                        $guid = 0;
                    }

Which seemed to help....

I found an upload plugin (maybe it's based on this thread, I don't know) but plugin form might be the most user friendly format...

http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/naakka/read/165550/upload-users

not working, no complaints and no users added, just number of 239 print out.

@Roman: this posting is very, very old. I would not even start looking for why it's not working.

You might find this plugin useful: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/852868/1.8.1/csv-user-upload (though I don't know if this works either as I've not tested it myself - at least it says it's for Elgg 1.8).