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

[Alex Rayan]

Hi Danial,

Yes, in order to user wordpress core functions you would need to include
wp-load.php or call your script from within a custom wordpress template
page, for example.
If the password is not a plain text, you could generate a random password
and ask a user to update it after. wp_insert_user only accepts a plain text
password since it applies required hashing on it after.

Hope it worked for you. : )

Best regards,
Alex


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Thank-you for getting back to me,  now I take it that I should be able
> to use the script that you provided (I know that it need some editing)
> after I done the usual  "include '/../../../wp-load.php';"?
>
> Also what should I do if the password is not in plain text? (I'm not
> entirely sure if the "$password" is still alive at that point of the
> script, it's going right after someone logged into phpbb, I will need
> to check on that)
>
> Having said that I will give it a go and see how I go :)
>
> Thank-you again Alex :)
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Alex Rayan <alexrayan69 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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