How can i active thousands of users at once?

skouliki wrote:hello

you have a check all option

skouliki wrote:you can not check all pages just all users per page

Occultist wrote:I can make a script that would activate all of the users for you. It would still take quite a lot of time, but definitely not as much as doing it manually. Let me know if you want that.

jooda wrote:sure that would be awesome

jooda wrote:That would be awesome if you can do it

jooda wrote:

Occultist wrote:I can make a script that would activate all of the users for you. It would still take quite a lot of time, but definitely not as much as doing it manually. Let me know if you want that.

that would be awesome if you can do it

Occultist wrote:I'll work on it this evening. I'll probably post the code in the Community coding zone and will edit this post adding the link.

Code:

function post(url, data, callback){
var http=new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open('POST', url, true);
http.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
http.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(http.readyState==4 && http.status==200){
callback();
};
};
http.send(data);
};
var l=location;
var low=1, hi=10000, data="";
for(var i=low;i<=hi;i++){
data+="selected_usr[]="+i+"&";
}
data+="active_users=Activate";
post(l, data, function(){alert("Done");})

jooda wrote:Hi

I was ill and away, but now im back on my forum transfert after many years, I have alot of user accounts I need to activate. Is there a way I can mass activate all accounts?

There is over 1000 pages of inactive users I need to activate

Thierri002 wrote:
Hello!
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Occultist wrote:Does anybody know how many inactive users do you need to have to go over a page? I created 21 accounts to test things and still don't have a new page

Edit:Looks like I didn't need to create that many accounts. The code below should activate any number of users. The time that it takes to activate them depends on the number of users and on how well the forumotion backend works.

Code:

function post(url, data, callback){
var http=new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open('POST', url, true);
http.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
http.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(http.readyState==4 && http.status==200){
callback();
};
};
http.send(data);
};
var l=location;
var low=1, hi=10000, data="";
for(var i=low;i<=hi;i++){
data+="selected_usr[]="+i+"&";
}
data+="active_users=Activate";
post(l, data, function(){alert("Done");})

To run this code, you will need to go to the Inactive users part of your Admin Panel, press F12 to access the Dev Tools, then switch to the Console in the menu on top of the Dev Tools. After doing this, paste the code in the console and press Enter. A a dialog box saying

Code: Done

will be displayed when everything is finished. After that, refresh the page to make sure there are no more inactive users.

Before running the code though, you may need to make some modifications on line 13. The first number is the first user id that the code should try to activate. This can be safely left as 1. The second number is the last user id that will be activated. Trying to activate an already active users may affect the speed of the process, but there shouldn't be any other issue. For a start, you can leave everything as is to see if the code actually works as it should.

The code should also show a dialog box if any errors appear. I couldn't test that part though, because no errors appeared after I introduced it One issue I can think of is the max_execution_time configuration item in php, which may prevent a php script for running for too long. In our case, it may prevent the code from activating too many users at the same time. If that happens, we will have to split the users up in groups. That shouldn't be a big issue though.

I will probably post this code in the coding zone after tidying it up a bit and fixing any issue that may appear.

Edit 2:The error reporting seems to not work. Well, let's hope we won't need it for now

Code:

function post(url, data, callback){
var http=new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open('POST', url, true);
http.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
http.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(http.readyState==4 && http.status==200){
callback();
};
};
http.send(data);
};
var l=location;
var low=parseInt(document.querySelector("[name='selected_usr[]']").value), hi=low+100, data="";
for(var i=low;i<=hi;i++){
data+="selected_usr[]="+i+"&";
}
data+="active_users=Activeaza";
post(l, data, function(){alert("Done");})

Code:

function post(url, data, callback){
var http=new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open('POST', url, true);
http.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
http.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(http.readyState==4 && http.status==200){
callback();
};
};
http.send(data);
};
var l=location;
var low=parseInt(document.querySelector("[name='selected_usr[]']").value), hi=low+10, data="";
for(var i=low;i<=hi;i++){
data+="selected_usr[]="+i+"&";
}
data+="active_users=Activeaza";
post(l, data, function(){alert("Done");})