By nikle on

I am going to be inserting my own users via a CSV file and noticed that there is an init and a mail field which both seem to have the same email address. I'm wondering if I fill in both and also if there is anything else in particular I should watch out for.

Thanks

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yanger’s picture

yanger commented

Did you ever successfully do this? :)

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sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

you can import users with user import module. Although i haven't tested it. http://drupal.org/node/31940

Though its needs cvs file, format may be diffrent.

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yarozar’s picture

yarozar commented

I'm also wondering what is the purpose of 'init' field in users table and how it's purpose differs from 'mail' field. Any idea?

P.S.: Is there somewhere Drupal's database schema description?

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sangamreddi commented

From my obervations, i found the init is being used at first time, mean during register it stores the email and when you update the email, the change is not being reflected in init. This is what i cna say and I dont know whats the use of init field and why it stores the email again there.

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sepeck commented

Remember that you can log on with an affiliate id, like @drupal.org. So looking in more detail at mine, init is the intial login id, mail is what actually holds the mail that was supplie by the user. So for email, use email address. Also keep in mind, you need a working email address if you are creating an account that sends your passwor/link login. SO init seems to store that even if you change it later in mail.

This is merely guess and speculation.

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yarozar’s picture

yarozar commented

Thank for your comments guys. I suspected something like that.

Are there Drupal's database structure explanation somewhere?

sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

I thought soemthing of that kind but i didnt test it. Anyway thanks for the explanation and saving my time too.

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deumatasha commented

This was very enlightening guys, thank you so much