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

[Alex Rayan]

Hi Daniel,

Glad to hear you progressed with your task. No need to credit me. It's an
open community to share knowledge.

Best regards,
Alex


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> I managed to get 95% of what I'm after going, the other 5% is info
> that I'm trying to pull from phpBB and I'm going to ask over there
> because it looks like an issue on phpBB and not WordPress side.
>
> Alex please let me know how you want me to credit you (Got a website?)
> and I'll do that right away.
>
> Thank-you :)
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Alex Rayan <alexrayan69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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