Possible to create users from admin?

christophermancini

Is there a built in way to create new users? If not, is there an extension? Guardian allows me to list users, but not create a new one. I am trying out Flarum as a community forum for our neighborhood, so I want content to require membership to view / post, but I don't want membership to be wide open.

Dominion

I get the feeling christophermancini is asking for this feature rather than seeking to discuss how to develop it for himself. (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)

I agree that admins need the ability to create users from the admin panel. esoTalk has this feature, and I used it just yesterday to add a new user to our own site. It's pretty essential for a by-invitation forum.

I don't know if this feature should go in Guardian or as a separate bundled extension ...

matpompili

You can restrict the acces to posts to members only. As for the account creation, there is no way from the admin. You should create one directly in the database. I'll post you later a sample php script that gives you the query that needs to be run. 😉

luceos

It should be possible, there is a CreateUserController, just make sure you create an master API key. It was discussed here.

christophermancini

I started writing my own extension. I am at a point where I have a list of users, I am now trying to get the create user modal to work.

christophermancini

Dominion Yea, I already started writing the extension using guardian and tags as a guide. Never used mithril before, its pretty neat. Not sure it makes sense in Guardian unless it changes its scope, because to me it seems like it is to add security features around users, not manage them.

Dominion

Oh, you're working on the extension? Great!

As for whether it belongs in Guardian, I've been wondering about that myself. It does seem to me as if Guardian, while clearly intended as a security add-on, has focused on adding user management functionality that might be more appropriate in the core.

I'll add some suggestions about how this could be handled in the Guardian thread.