Comments on: Adding a user to phpbb3 from an external script

By: Promi

Promi — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:55:15 +0000

and added a simple string instead:

$phpbb_root_path = ‘phpBB3/’;

By: Promi

Promi — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:44:08 +0000

The problem solved:
I removed the
$phpbb_root_path = (defined(’PHPBB_ROOT_PATH’)) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : ‘./’;

part from the code

By: Promi

Promi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:14:05 +0000

This is the latest version and the browser cannot show the page (HTTP500):

define(‘IN_PHPBB’, true);
session_start();
global $config, $db, $user, $auth, $template, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx;

/* the file with the actual goodies */
$phpbb_root_path = (defined(‘PHPBB_ROOT_PATH’)) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : ‘./’;
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, ‘.’), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . “includes/functions_user.” . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . “includes/functions.” . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . “common.” . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();

$username = “proba”;
$password = “proba”;
$email = “email@eml.hu”;
$user_inactive_reason = 0;
$user_inactive_time = 0;
$user_type = USER_NORMAL;
$user_row = array(
“username” => $username,
“user_password” => phpbb_hash($password),
“user_email” => $email,
“group_id” => 2, #Registered users group
“user_timezone” => 1.00,
“user_dst” => 1,
“user_lang” => “hu”,
“user_type” => $user_type,
“user_actkey” => ”,
“user_dateformat” => “D M d, Y g:i a”,
“user_style” => 1,
“user_regdate” => time(),
“user_inactive_reason” => $user_inactive_reason,
“user_inactive_time” => $user_inactive_time,
);
/* Now Register user */
$phpbb_user_id = user_add($user_row);

echo “finished”;

By: Promi

Promi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:34:35 +0000

It writes the following error:

The config. file could not be found.
Click here to install phpBB

By: Promi

Promi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:28:46 +0000

I have the above code, but something does not work pls help me

define(‘IN_PHPBB’, true);

global $config, $db, $user, $auth, $template, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx;

/* the file with the actual goodies */
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, “.”), 1);
$phpbb_root_path = “phpBB3/”;
include($phpbb_root_path . “includes/functions_user.” . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . “includes/functions.” . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . “common.” . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();

echo “finished”;

By: Claudio Walser

Claudio Walser — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:42:13 +0000

Nice, this works perfect.
Another problem i have is, if my user change the password in my external script. Has anyone a solution for changing the password in phpBB too?

By: Ceb P

Ceb P — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:20 +0000

Look at the wiki for more infos:
http://wiki.phpbb.com/User_add

By: Greg B

Greg B — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:47 +0000

Is there a phpbb function to update a user password after it has been created?

By: Randy Rowe

Randy Rowe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:48:54 +0000

Oops, cut and paste error on the last echo. The variable should be $valid_username instead of $valid_password.

By: Randy Rowe

Randy Rowe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:49 +0000

This reply is to Ramon Fincken and the code that is posted there.
I don’t have a login to post a reply there so I’ll post it here.

After the line:

email = ‘email_here’; // Please validate this email yourself ! Phpbb will accept non-valid emails.

Adding this code will make phpBB3 verify the items that were input:

$valid_email = validate_email($email);
if ($valid_email) {
echo “Your email address could not be used because “.$valid_email.”.\n”;
exit;
} else {
$valid_password = validate_password($password);
if ($valid_password) {
echo “Your password could not be used because “.$valid_password.”.\n”;
exit;
} else {
$valid_username = validate_username($username);
if ($validate_username) {
echo “Your username could not be used because “.$valid_password.”.\n”;
exit;
}
}
}

Hope the quotes make it through ok. Thanks for the pointers to get this started.