[wp-hackers] Check to see if there a wordpress user account and create one if not outside of wordpress

[Alex Rayan]

Hi Daniel,

I'm sorry I don't have time to go through your whole script, but to check
whether the user exists you can use:
if( !email_exists( $email )) {
}
and to pass email that you would like to check against.
Then if the email is not found in the database, you can create a new user
account as follows:

$args = array(
'user_pass'=>$plain_text_pass,
'user_login'=>$username,
'user_nicename'=>$url_friendly_name,
'user_email'=>$user_email,
'display_name'=>$display_name
);
$user_id = wp_insert_user($args);

You can check a full list of arguments that you can pass here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_user

Also, it's probably a good idea to check for username_exists before passing
a username in case that one is already taken. Then, you could, for example,
append a number at the end of the username.

On success the function above returns user_id.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Alex


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering, does anyone know how I can go about checking to see if
> there a wordpress account and create one if there isn't?
>
> Script that I got: https://gist.github.com/Danielx64/7519092
>
> There a marker in the file that has "// Somewhere here I want to put a
> check to see if there a wp account" What I want to happen there is
> that a check get done to see if there is a wordpress account and if
> there not, create one.
>
> Does anyone know if it can be done?
>
> PS, I don't need to worry about logging into wordpress as that will
> get taken care of by a different script. Also anyone who can help me
> out will also get credit in the source code and readme :)
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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