How to provision a new user via external script

[blantonl]

I need to provision users in Xenforo 2.0 via an external registration system. Does anyone have any code examples or documentation on how to accomplish this?

I see in a previous thread that I can initialize the XF Framework and then access the user methods and objects, like below, but I don't documentation anywhere that tells us the attributes and methods to use to provision new user

<?php

// bootstrap framework
$dir = __DIR__;
require($dir . '/src/XF.php');

XF::start($dir);

// create user
/** @var \XF\Service\User\Registration $registration */
$registration = XF::service('XF:User\Registration');
.....

After this, I'm stuck. Has anyone does this before that can provide an example of creating a new user, setting their new password and email address, and assigning a user to default user groups?

Thanks!

 

[blantonl]

I found code for doing this in XF 1.5 - but I need to do this for XF 2.0

$newusername = "Joseph";
$newpassword = "12345";
$newemail = "joseph@yahoo.com";

$fileDir = "/home1/myserver/public_html/mywebsite/forums";


require($fileDir.'/library/XenForo/Autoloader.php');
XenForo_Autoloader::getInstance()->setupAutoloader($fileDir . '/library');

$startTime = microtime(true);
XenForo_Application::initialize($fileDir . '/library', $fileDir);
XenForo_Application::set('page_start_time', $startTime);
XenForo_Application::disablePhpErrorHandler();

// create new user
$writer = XenForo_DataWriter::create('XenForo_DataWriter_User');
// set all the values 
$writer->set('username', $newusername);
$writer->set('email', $newemail);
$writer->setPassword($newpassword, $newpassword);
$writer->set('user_group_id', XenForo_Model_User::$defaultRegisteredGroupId);
// $writer->set('location', $location);
//$writer->set('signature', '[IMG]http://gtracer.net/userbanner/'.$username.'.png[/IMG]');
// save user
$writer->save();

Anyone know how to convert this to work for XF 2.0 ?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Will kotomi or bd api help ?

 

[blantonl]

I don't see 2.0 support for either of those.

 

[blantonl]

Well, I just made some guesses and stumbled into this which actually works:

<?php

// bootstrap framework
$dir = __DIR__;
require($dir . '/src/XF.php');

XF::start($dir);

// create user
/** @var \XF\Service\User\Registration $registration */
$registration = XF::service('XF:User\Registration');
$input['username'] = "testusername";
$input['email'] = "xxx@test123.com";
$input['password'] = "testpw123";
$registration->setFromInput($input);
$user = $registration->save();

This provisions a new user perfectly.

Now, I need to figure out how to change a user's password via an external script and add/remove usergroups. User group management I can probably tackle by hitting up the database directly. However, password management I'm going to need to use the XF framework because I don't have any visibility into the password management scheme used.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Jeremy P]

Users are more or less just normal entity objects. Entities are pretty easy to wrap your head around and work with, I would read up on them:
https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/entities-finders-repositories/#the-entity-system

Generally, if you know where to look you, can just peak at how XF does things in the core to get a better idea how to do them elsewhere.

(Untested) examples:

/** @var \XF\Entity\User $user */
$user = \XF::em()->find('XF:User', $userId); // or use the $user returned from the registration service

// adding usergroups
$user->secondary_group_ids = [1, 2, 3];
$user->save();

// setting passwords
/** @var \XF\Entity\UserAuth $userAuth */
$userAuth = $user->getRelationOrDefault('Auth');
$userAuth->setPassword('password');
$userAuth->save();
\XF::repository('XF:UserRemember')->clearUserRememberRecords($user->user_id); // clear out other sessions

 

[blantonl]

Perfect Jeremy, thank you.

I just dumped out the user object to see all the attributes available and I think I'm set now.

Many thanks!

 

[Tom Nunamaker]

Thanks blantonl for the code. That helped and I have it working...sort of. It creates a user but throws an error

LogicException: The session key must be overridden. src/XF/App.php:624

How can I prevent this error so the script will keep processing and the server logs won't have unnecessary entries?