importing users from an external datasource

Friday 09 July 2004 5:43:21 am

hello!

i am planning to implement an large scale community site for an organisation with about 2000 members. every member shall have its own pre-installed user. i have all the userdata like email, name, surname, etc. in a separete excel-file.
my question is if there is an possibility to import this file as csv and generate ezPublish users with limited rights automatically?

thanks and best regards from germany!
robin

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Sunday 19 September 2004 6:57:27 pm

Bump.

This actually is something we're interested in doing as well. We could import, but unfortunately everything else in our architecture is integrated with the parent DB and not eZ. So I suppose we'll have to get eZ to auth against our other MysqlDB and not export it.

I'm working on a 3.4 codebase, and I think I have it down. Quite a challenge though -- I wish there were a way to do this with a web service (SOAP) client.

Anyone have an idea of a good way to do it? I have a couple of thousand users in an external MysqlDB with SHA1 encryption. I can use php's native functions to auth against the raw output (I have php accessing a perl script to get raw output with a 4.3 php version so it's actually just a string comparison).

Anyone have any experience with this? I could use some pointers myself before I break my head for the next two days. ;-)

Jonathan

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Thursday 24 February 2005 1:26:01 am

I have to import user by a csv file, have somebody got a module to do it?
Thank's.
Ps. He could send me the file by mail. I could tell him my mail.