Batch create members strategy

[PhilJ]

For a website migration to Statamic+Membersbox project I have to create 250 member invites.

The only strategy I found so far is to manually create every member in the Statamic backend. While this is time consuming, there is also the risk of human mistakes I want to avoid (e.g. missing to invite members).

What is the simplest strategy to batch create the users with a script? Is there a simple sequence of API calls I can use (simpler then trying to recreate MembersController.php:store)?

Thank you so much for your support!

[jacksleight]

Hey. Simplest way to do it is by creating a command that imports the users from wherever they currently are (DB, CSV etc.). Check the docs on creating users. Here's an example from a command I wrote that imports users from a CSV:

use Statamic\Facades\User;

$csv = 'users.csv';
$file = fopen($csv, 'r');

while (($row = fgetcsv($file)) !== false) {
    $user = User::make()
        ->email($row[1])
        ->data([
            'name' => $row[0),
        ]);
    $user->password($row[2]);
    $user->roles(...);
    $user->groups(...);
    $user->save();
}

fclose($file);