Add new Users (automatically)

[dwh]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

You would have t hook into register_activate_process and change the Usergroupid there.

Anyway, the described method does not generate an activation ID and such.
If you are interested in this I can write up some description.

I will be using the activation ID eventually and it would be very helpful. But I'm in no urgent rush at all for this.

[Xia]

What files need to be included to get this to work?

I don't see the function datamanager_init in class_dm_user.php

Thanks

[tema]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Anyway, the described method does not generate an activation ID and such.
If you are interested in this I can write up some description.

Ok, can u describe how to make user whith waiting for activation with emailing of that?

[merk]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Please read the stickied post in the top of this forum.

I cant imagine that this falls under the "dont ask questions". This question was specific to this howto about improving it with the format of a mentioned error variable.

[scott8539]

Originally Posted by Andreas

As this is a common request for integration purposes, I thought I should write up another HowTo

If you want to add a new user to the vBulletin database, you can use Class vB_Datamanager_User.
This Calss does make sure that everything is OK, it will also take care of the default registration options.

Example

PHP Code:

$newuser =& datamanager_init('User', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
$newuser->set('username', 'phpNukeUser');
$newuser->set('email', 'foo@bar.com');
$newuser->set('password', 'verysecret');
$newuser->set('usergroupid', 2); 


.....

Perhaps I am missing something...but I cannot get the above code to work. Could you provide a complete, self contained script that can be executed on the cmd line (or exec'd or remote require'd from another program)? I have searched through this forum and found examples of creating a thread , but this is the only code reference to creating a user --- which is exactly what I am after!

My goal in this is to have my own CMS manage the registration: The user will register in my CMS (custom designed CMS -- this is not a 3rd party off-the-shelf CMS), then call a script to add the user to the forum.

Thanks!

-Scott
vB 3.5

[J75595E3F40B]

yes I also cannot get the script above to work.. do I need to initialize $vbulletin via a constructor?

[akanevsky]

yes I also cannot get the script above to work.. do I need to initialize $vbulletin via a constructor?

The script works as long as you use it on a vbulletin-powered page.

[J75595E3F40B]

What would be necessary to use the user data-manager from outside a vbulletin-powered page?

[Andreas]

The vBulletin backend, which makes it a vBulletin powered page

[scott8539]

I finally got a working script to add a user to vB offline. I maintain a separate Membership System. When a user registers in this separate system, an account is automatically created for them in vB.

When they register (again, this is in my own Member System -- on a different domain), I collect those variables that I need specifically (and minimally) to create an account in vB.

I then cURL those variables to a custom script (called bb_add_user.php) which resides in the root folder of the forum. The results of bb_add_user.php are printed, which are then collected in the result of the cURL. If there are errors, the Membership System takes appropriate action. If successul, then I grab the vbuserid from the cURL result and go about my business.

Although I am still proving this system on a development server, my goal will be to change all of the 'register.php' links on vBulletin and point them to the register script on my Membership System.

Here is the bb_add_user.php code.

<?php
	# Add a user to vBulletin (offline)
		
	function qpc_post($varname)
	{
		return trim(stripslashes((get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST[$varname] : addslashes($_POST[$varname])));
	}

	define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'bb_add_user.php');
	require_once('./global.php');
	require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
	require_once('./includes/class_dm_user.php');

	$userdm = new vB_DataManager_User($vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
	
	$userdm->set('username', qpc_post('username'));
	$userdm->set('email', qpc_post('email'));
	$userdm->set('password', qpc_post('password'));
	$userdm->set('usergroupid', 2);
	$userdm->set('ipaddress', qpc_post('ipaddress'));
	$userdm->set('referrerid', qpc_post('referrername'));
	$userdm->set('timezoneoffset', qpc_post('timezoneoffset'));
	$userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'adminemail', intval(qpc_post('adminemail')));
	$userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'showemail', intval(qpc_post('showemail')));
	
	$dst_setting = intval(qpc_post('dst'));
	switch ($dst_setting)
	{
		case 0:
		case 1:
			$userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'dstonoff', $dst_setting);
			break;
		case 2:
			$userdm->set_bitfield('options', 'dstauto', 1);
			break;
	}
	
	#If there are errors (eMail not set, eMail banned, Username taken, etc.) you can check for errors using
	if (count($userdm->errors)) {
		for($i=0; $i<count($userdm->errors); $i++) {
			print "ERROR{$i}:{$userdm->errors[$i]}\n";
		}
	} else {
		# If everything is OK
		$newuserid = $userdm->save();
		print "vbuserid:$newuserid\n";
	}
	

?>