Hi, this is a bug fix for the problem known as broken progress bars in a subdirectory setup, reported here. Thanks for elgg_noob for taking the time and helping me fix this issue.

The other problem (mysqldump and mysql command line utilities has to be included in the path, in order to "fast deletion" option to work) was not addressed in this bug fix, and probably wil not be addressed in the future. Simply include the mentioned executables' directory in your path, and you're good to go.

Please let me know here, if you have any further problems.

Andras Szepeshazi 249 days ago

Andres ill do a STRONG test on this one tonight for you.

Ill test it on my empty elgg site adding one user / delete / add again / delete /

and then ill try it by adding quite a large amount of users

again m ysite is empty so its not a problem + ill keep an original clean copy of the SQLdb to revert back to when done testing

Ill see if i have time to take a lok at the mod for adding these new ueres to GROUPS

unless you can do that

antifmradio 249 days ago

Hi antifmradio, I'm sorry but this plugin does not support groups at the moment. I suggest to take a look at Aaron Saray's group generator plugin available here, maybea combination of these two plugins can achieve what you need.

Thanks for your offer for a thorough test, I'm waiting for the result.

Andras Szepeshazi 248 days ago

wow

not sure whats happening here but i tried it twice and twice i get this

Users 0%    

Friend relationships 0%    

Icons 0%    

Messages 0%    

Blogs 0%    

Blog comments 0%    

Uploaded files 0%    

Uploaded file comments 0%    

Total 0%

Seems to NOT be working for me oddly enough

im using it on a clean empty site, and have it set ONLY to create 20 users

antifmradio 248 days ago

oh wait

IM SO SORRY.. i didnt check the site after running the script

it worked fine. I just now went into my home page and i see some new blogs created

however i do NOT see any new members avatars in the front page

antifmradio 248 days ago

ok Andreas lets talk about this one for a bit here

it seems to work just fine

i just did a test for 1 user / 20 users / 200 users

with relations, friends, icons, comments, uploaded files, and so on

well with all the mods + code changes i have in my system, it seems to work independently of everything else

and doesnt seem to break anything on my end so i havea few questions

CUSTOMIZING:

i see the resources folder ( profile icons )
Can we add more icons to this folder?
If so, do they need to be ABOVE a specific dimention.
Does the file name we save the images as, have to NOT include any specific charactures in hte file name?
We are limited to any file types? jpg, gif, tiff, png, psd, and so on

Also
I have in use on my site then FLEX PROFILE mod
This lets us create for example
more form fields that users can fill out to add more content to their profiles

Name | Age | Sex | Location | Username | Name they want to be known as | BIogrphy | and so on and so on including DATE

Some of these items can show up as a LINK ( TAG )
and some can simply show as TEXT

is there a method of editing this script to also generate that information too?

Hope i helped you out with this one as much as i could
It was pretty simple.

And now with my other questions im sure i just added to your TODO list hahahahaha

antifmradio 248 days ago

Hi antifmradio, thanks for your test. Regarding your question, most of the answers you can find in the documentation (docs/manual.pdf), nonetheless here they are.

Can we add more icons to this folder? Yes, see manual page 13 for details.
If so, do they need to be ABOVE a specific dimention. No, you can use any size you'd like to.
Does the file name we save the images as, have to NOT include any specific charactures in hte file name? Not that I'm aware of. As far as it is a valid filename in the file system, it should work.
We are limited to any file types? jpg, gif, tiff, png, psd, and so on. Yes, only jpeg files having a ".jpg" extensions are used. See manual page 13 for details.

Also
I have in use on my site then FLEX PROFILE mod
This lets us create for example
more form fields that users can fill out to add more content to their profiles

Name | Age | Sex | Location | Username | Name they want to be known as | BIogrphy | and so on and so on including DATE

Some of these items can show up as a LINK ( TAG )
and some can simply show as TEXT

is there a method of editing this script to also generate that information too?

Sorry, no. If you change the database structure, this script will fail to run. See "Direct database manipulation" section of the manual. Or, if you are willing to dig into my source code and experiment with it, you should try to rewrite the actions/generate.php script to include your fields.

Andras Szepeshazi 248 days ago

thank you

i would imagine the script could be re-written to do the same as it does for adding  FIRST NAMES, LAST NAMES like it already does

however extra actions be included in the GENERATE.php file to also look for

age.txt

location.txt

gender.txt

and so on.

Of course i would have to create a file called age.txt, and in it place a long list of age range numbers

also doing the same for Location.txt
and even BIO.txt

This can really add some NICE inclusions to your script for people to see just how well thei site wold be under load of "X" many people flooding their database with information.

Ok im off. thanks for your help and the script
when i have time ill work out the extra stuff

hope i get to it before yuo release an update

antifmradio 248 days ago

Hello,

Sounds great, this test for building up a sns and testing it. But I am a real noob, and have 1 question.

max_execution_time set to 0 in your php.ini file, at least for the time while users are
being generated or deleted

where do I find that file? :s

Thank you in advance!

Tom Staelens 214 days ago

Hi, the location of you php.ini file is usually in your php installation or config directory. On a Windows system this would be something like "C:\Program Files\PHP\" or in a Linux system "/etc/php5/apache2".

Alternatively, you can set this value in your site root's ".htaccess" file. You should enter the following line into your .htaccess:

php_value max_execution_time 0

Cheers!

Andras Szepeshazi 214 days ago

thank you a lot!

Tom Staelens 213 days ago

generating testuser is a geat idea, but i have a problem to run this plugin.

im using the new engine elgg1.6.

-installation works great,
- aktivating also.

but when i want to send my setting (number of to generating user a.s.o.) their is a

"fatal error: Call to undefined function json_encode()"

is it posible to post a simple sql-dumb of a clean elgg-system with a number of user?

maybe there should be testuser in the installationscript of a new elggsystem (but thats just an idea)

sorrry for this english.

greetings

SohnDesMogh 176 days ago

@SohnDesMogh - did you think about typing that error into google? You really should try that when you run into problems

Cash 176 days ago

@cash - yes of course the first step of "bugging by myself" is googlesearch. but did you tried it by yourselfe befor you post this comment? there is nothing helpfull to find at googlesearch. you can find somthing about errorcodes for json_encode() or buggs in elgg, but i did not found anny combination of both.

especially there is nothing with this plugin.

please post helpfull links if you got some.

greetings

SohnDesMogh 173 days ago

hello! i´ve tested the plugin and its run perfect, but now i will delet the generatet users but the button dont take effect :(

can anyone help me?

Delike 150 days ago

Hi Delike, what version of Elgg core are you running? I haven't tested this plugin with 1.6+, so there might be a problem. Which method did you select for user deletion (database restore based "fast", or delete statement based "slow")? Do you see any kind of activity on the screen (progress bars) when trying to delete your users? Please post a screenshot and your logfile as well.

Andras Szepeshazi 150 days ago

Hi an thanks for your answer! a have elgg Release - 1.6.1, Version - 2009072201, but in any other post i have read that this plugin runs at release 1.6.1. ...

where can i select the method for deleting users??

when i go an generate users, i have three buttons: generated users, jmeter... and delete generated users.

after this there is the list of the generated users and at the bottom is the configuration for the jmeter.

Delike 149 days ago

... there is no activity when i click on the button.. where can i find the log-file?

the screenshoot can you see at http://sv01.dyndns.org/tests/screen.png

there ara two shoots without the userslist ;)

Delike 149 days ago

Hi, I can see from the screenshot that the screen layout is broken - that is most probably due to conflicing javascript libraries. My plugin uses jquery. For example, if one of your other plugins uses the mootools framework, then there is a strong chance that those two plugins will have a confliction.

I suggest that you disable all plugins except for the basic ones necessary for user generation (messages, blogs, files, hu_skawa genusers). Then go to the Generate User admin panel, click on the "Delete generated users" button. Hopefully that will help. Let me know.

Andras Szepeshazi 149 days ago

thanks! i tests this and let you now it ;)

Delike 149 days ago

so.. i have disable all tools, than i have activate the user generator and the crontrigger plugin.

the button nevertheless will dont have any effect :(

ps: sorry for m y bad english :P

Delike 149 days ago

Hmm... to bad. There is a log file in hu_skawa_genusers/log directory. Please post it to my private e-mail address (check my profile for that)

Andras Szepeshazi 149 days ago

you have pos :P

Delike 149 days ago

Hello Everyone,

we have debugged this issue reported by Delike above, and here is what causes the problem.

The bug is confirmed (the tabbed user interface is broken, and you'll not be able to delete your generated users due to the lack of "Delete users" button) in Elgg 1.6+

This is due to a jquery incompatibility issue. Elgg 1.6+ ships with a new version of jquery library, and the tabbed user interface I used in my plugin, does not work with the new jquery version. (As a remark, I specifically stated in the docs that the plugin is only compatible up to Elgg 1.5.) None the less, if you'd like to use this plugin with Elgg 1.6, here is what you need to do:

1. Make a backup of this file: /views/default/page_elements/header.php
2. Modify the header.php as follows:
2.a search for "jquery-1.3.2.min.js" in the file, and replace it with "jquery-1.2.6.pack.js"
2.b search for "jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js" and replace it with "jquery-ui-personalized-1.5.3.packed.js"
3. Search for these older jquery files on the net, or ask for them directly either from me here, in the forum, or from Delike (contact above)
4. Put these jquery files in your /vendors/jquery/ directory. Reload your admin panel, the "Generate Users" plugin should render correctly now.
5. Do you "User generation" related functions - create new users, create a JMeter test scenario, or delete generated users
6. After you're done with user generation related functions, restore the original jquery include statements by replacing header.php with your backed up version

Hope this helps. I'll try to update the plugin to work with Elgg 1.6, but I can't give you a time estimate for this yet.

Andras Szepeshazi 145 days ago

@SohnDesMogh - Hi, sorry for the very late answer, I just realized that I haven't got back to you regarding your issue.

The json_encode function is built into PHP from version 5.2.0 and upwards. So my guess is that you use an eralier version of PHP. Please upgrade to 5.2+

Andras Szepeshazi 145 days ago