Create a user Programmatically in Drupal 6.22

Question

i was trying to create a new user Programmatically in drupal 6.22 but i can't seem to get it working. I need to make a web service that can do a few things, one being create a new user. This webservice is going to be consumed by a mobile device. I was just trying to test the user_save from outside drupal in just a simple php file and it doesn't seem to work. I just need to know what i'm doing wrong.

Here is my code

<?php
    require_once(includes/bootstrap.inc);
    drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
    // Get an array of roles
    $roles = user_roles();
//Basic account information
$user = array(
    'name' => 'username',
    'pass' => 'Password',
    'mail' => 'email',
    'status' => 1,
   'init' => 'email',
    'roles' => array(array_search('authenticated user', $roles) => 1),
);
// See if the user exists by calling Drupal's user_load()
$existing_user = user_load(array('name' => $user['name']));
    if (!$existing_user->uid) {
    // Save the user
    $user = user_save(NULL, $user);
    } 
?>

EDIT: Added the drupal_bootstrap, still not working for me.

Answer 1

Looks like you've included the bootstrap.inc but you haven't actually bootstrapped drupal.

Example:

require_once(includes/bootstrap.inc);
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

Answer 2

I've tested your code, and it works if it is used inside a regular function that is part of a regular module on a regular Drupal 6 site. This suggests that it is not your code for creating a user is wrong, but that the outside Drupal environment you use for testing does not have enough of the Drupal "scaffolding" up and running, and the code fails because somewhere down the line, it attempts to call functions that does not exist in your test environment.

However, just to show an alternative approach, you can create a user by simulating the submission of the standard user creation form, like this:

function createuser_create() {
  $name = 'johndoe';
  $mail = '[email protected]';
  $password = 'Q1w2E3r4T5y';
  $form_state = array();
  $form_state['values']['name'] = $name;
  $form_state['values']['mail'] = $mail;
  $form_state['values']['status'] = 1; // Active user
  $form_state['values']['pass']['pass1'] = $password;
  $form_state['values']['pass']['pass2'] = $password;
  $form_state['values']['op'] = t('Create new account');
  drupal_execute('user_register', $form_state);
  $errors = form_get_errors();
  if (!empty($errors)) {
    drupal_set_message(t('User account creation failed.'), 'error');
  }
  else {
    drupal_set_message(t('User account created.'));
  }
}