Remove/delete user?

edco

How do I search for and remove a user of whom I only have the email address (and who might not have posted yet)?

Thanks,
Eddie

clarkwinkelmann

You can delete a user by going to his profile page and using the dropdown menu.

But if you don't know his username, I think you will have to go in your database (via phpMyAdmin for example) and search for his email in the users table. There you will see his username and be able to find his profile on the forum.

Also have a look at the user management extension which seems to provide a list of users on the forum. Not sure if they allow to search by email though.

micheleur

Hi, my solution to easily delete forum users:
https://github.com/micheleur/Flarum-user-admin
No access via phpMyAdmin. No need to install any extension.

clarkwinkelmann

micheleur your solution seems more complex than simply installing the User Directory extension (which was released after this thread was originally created), going to the user profile and delete it from there.

You should take into consideration that any "on delete" behaviour defined by an extension will not run if you delete a user manually from the database. This could potentially lead to invalid state for some extensions. If you wish to develop a remote/automated tool, you should use the Flarum REST API to delete a user and trigger any related Flarum event.

I see you just joined the community. I invite you to take a look at the very complete (and still evolving) Flarum extension API that lets you add almost any new feature into Flarum as an extension.