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Create a user programmatically

Submitted by newaction on Thu, 2012-01-12 12:22

Ref: http://ericlondon.com/programmatically-addupdate-users-using-user-save
Here's a quick code snippet I use to programmatically create new users:

<?php
$newUser = array(
  'name' => 'username',
  'pass' => 'password', // note: do not md5 the password
  'mail' => 'email address',
  'status' => 1,
  'init' => 'email address'
);           

user_save(null, $newUser);

 _user_mail_notify('status_activated', $newUser);

?>

And, here's how you can update an existing user:

<?php
// load user object
$existingUser = user_load('USERID');

// update some user property
$existingUser->some_property = 'blah';

// save existing user
user_save((object) array('uid' => $existingUser->uid), (array) $existingUser);
?>

If you wanted to update an existing user's profile data:

<?php
// load user object
$existingUser = user_load('USERID');

// create an array of properties to update
$edit = array(
  'profile_first_name' => 'Eric'
);

// save existing user
user_save(
  (object) array('uid' => $existingUser->uid),
  $edit,
  'Personal Information' // category
);

?>

Drupal 7, add user

Submitted by Eric.London on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 08:29.

I just added a user in Drupal 7 using this code, and had no issues...

<?php
$account = new StdClass();
$account->is_new = TRUE;
$account->status = TRUE;
$account->name = 'someusername';
$account->pass = 'somepassword';
$account->mail = 'email@example.com';
$account->init = 'email@example.com';
$account->roles[5] = 'some role';
$account->field_first_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'] = 'some first name';
$account->field_last_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'] = 'some last name';
user_save($account);
?>

 _user_mail_notify('status_activated', $account);

A little bit more advanced example

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 04:38.

Some code adjustments and additional properties defining :


// New user creation
$account = new stdClass();
$account->is_new = true;
$newUserData = array(
'name' => 'test user',
'pass' => '123456', // note: do not md5 the password
'mail' => 'email1@email.com',
'status' => 0,
'timezone' => 'Europe/Paris',
'init' => 'email1@email.com',
'roles' => array(
'1' => 'your role 1',
'2' => 'your role 2',
),
);


$new_user = user_save($account, $newUserData);

_user_mail_notify('status_activated', $newUserData);

An example might be:
$newUser = array(
'name' => 'username',
'pass' => 'password', // note: do not md5 the password
'mail' => 'email address',
'status' => 1,
'init' => 'email address'
);
$user = user_save(null, $newUser);
_user_mail_notify('status_activated', $user);

D7 Example

Posted by joshua.stout on July 18, 2011 at 12:02am
<?php
// register a new user
$form_state = array();
$form_state['values']['name'] = 'robo-user';
$form_state['values']['mail'] = 'robouser@example.com';
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass1'] = 'password';
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass2'] = 'password';
$form_state['values']['op'] = t('Create new account');
drupal_form_submit('user_register_form', $form_state);

?>

$newUser = array(
'name' => 'somename',
'pass' => '123',
'profile_name' =>'someprofilename',
'profile_department' =>'somedepartment',
'profile_job_title' =>'someprofilejobtitle',
'mail' => 'somemail',
'access' => 0,
'status' => 1,
'profile_phone' => 'someprofilephone',
'profile_office' => 'someprofileoffice',
);
user_save(null, $newUser);

Here's a way to do it via the forms api:

<?php
// register a new user
$form_state = array();
$form_state['values']['name'] = 'robo-user';
$form_state['values']['mail'] = 'robouser@example.com';
$form_state['values']['pass'] = 'password';
$form_state['values']['op'] = t('Create new account');
drupal_execute('user_register', $form_state);
?>

Above taken from: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_execute/6

Worked for me, only a minor issue, instead of only one password value
the form in drupal 6 requires 2 password values or it fails:

<?php
// this hardcodes the password value; with this you end with user:robo-user, password:password
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass1'] = 'password';
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass2'] = 'password';
// a better way is to generate a random password and assign it to a variable
$pass = user_password(8);
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass1'] = $pass;
$form_state['values']['pass']['pass2'] = $pass;
?>