phpBB Custom Coding • Location of MySQL table for "users"

This is funny because almost exactly two years later I have the same question. I just started with phpBB and since I'm a retired programmer who has written my share of complex SQL procedures, naturally I wanted to look at the database structure. I mean, like all applications, the BB is just a front end into the database. And since I'm researching ways to populate and maintain the users with data dumps from our management system, I can work through the BB, but it's probably simpler (if more dangerous) to do it directly.

So, I'm going through the tables, and I don't see the user table. I see ACI users, but that's not it. I see the expected references to user_id in some of the tables, but still no user table. Until I checked here. Only the first 25 are shown. So thank you folks. Now I see the Users table. There sure are a lot of BOT users, but my few created users are there.

I don't know php, but I took a quick look at the module code for the Add_User extension and it's pretty clear how it works, but it's working through the BB. I think I can bypass that.

Can anyone save me some time and tell me what other tables need to be updated when you add a user? I suppose I can just look at each table for something resembling user_id. Then add a user and see what happens. Fun fun fun.

Statistics: Posted by dgkulick — Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:04 pm

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