batch create users? - drupal

Question

I have an excel list of 600 users with name, email, and role - that I need to add to the drupal site I'm building.
There are 2 roles distributed among the users.
As an added complication, the site is using the Content Profile module, so it would be a great help if for each new user account created, a corresponding profile node was also auto-created.
Any ideas how to batch-create the new users?

Answer 1

How about the user_import module?

Answer 2

I had the same thing, and created a module for this.
Basically, it reads the user and what role to get from a file; in my case it was a CSV file with emailadres, name, role and stuff needed for the content profile.
Let's say you want user x#mail.com and fill out automatically his content profile data Name, Sirname and City or something.
In your module:
read the line from the file
create a new user
create a new node, (stdClass object, give it the correct type ('profile_data' or whatever your content profile type is) and fill the rest of yout node and save.
A sample:
<?php
//create a form with a button to read the CSV file
function bulk_users_submit() {
$users = 0;
$handle = fopen(drupal_get_path('module', 'bulk_users') .'/'.DATAFILE, "r");
if (!$handle) {
return $users;
}
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle)) !== FALSE) {
//this is similar to what the users.module does
if (bulk_users_create_user($data)) {
$users++;
bulk_users_create_profile($data);
}
}
fclose($handle);
return $users;
}
function bulk_users_create_profile($user, $data) {
$node = new stdClass();
$node->title = t('First and Last Name');
$node->body = "";
$node->type = 'first_and_last_name';
$node->created = time();
$node->changed = $node->created;
$node->status = 1;
$node->promote = 0;
$node->sticky = 0;
$node->format = 0;
$node->uid = $data['uid'];
$node->language = 'en';
$node->field_firstname[0]['value'] = $data['firstname'];
$node->field_lastname[0]['value'] = $data['lastname'];
node_save($node);
}
?>
not tested, but the idea is clear i hope.