Seed EE Member Data

seed-members.md

Tested with ExpressionEngine 2.9.0

From your project root, update your composer.json file to include the following.

{
    "require": {
        "eecli/bootstrap": "1.3",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "dev-master"
    }
}

Then visit http://yoursite.dev/seed-members.php to add members to the database.

seed-members.php

<?php
 
include_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
// error handling
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~(E_STRICT|E_NOTICE));
 
// bootstrap ee
$system_path = 'system';
include 'vendor/eecli/bootstrap/bootstrap-ee2.php';
ee()->load->model('member_model');
ee()->load->library('auth');
 
// config
$member_count = 100;
 
// init faker
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
 
// generate members
for ($i=0; $i<$member_count; $i++) {
 
    // generate password
    $pass = $faker->password;
    $hashed_password = ee()->auth->hash_password($pass);
 
    // build member array
    $cust_fields = FALSE;
    $data = array(
        'group_id'        => 1,
        'username'        => $faker->username,
        'screen_name'     => $faker->name,
        'password'        => $hashed_password['password'],
        'salt'            => $hashed_password['salt'],
        'unique_id'       => random_string('encrypt'),
        'crypt_key'       => ee()->functions->random('encrypt', 16),
        'email'           => $faker->email,
        'ip_address'      => $faker->ipv4,
        'join_date'       => ee()->localize->now,
        'language'        => ee()->config->item('deft_lang'),
        'timezone'        => ee()->config->item('default_site_timezone'),
        'date_format'     => ee()->config->item('date_format') ? ee()->config->item('date_format') : '%n/%j/%y',
        'time_format'     => ee()->config->item('time_format') ? ee()->config->item('time_format') : '12',
        'include_seconds' => ee()->config->item('include_seconds') ? ee()->config->item('include_seconds') : 'n',
    );
 
    // create member
    $member_id = ee()->member_model->create_member($data, $cust_fields);
 
    // show member data in browser for convenience
    var_dump(array_merge($data, array('raw_pass' => $pass)));
 
}