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I had a recent complete failure of an Older Site and lost most of my Tables and Data. Having to replace my Site with a new one I was disappointed to find that I had also lost all of my previous members and on a Commercial Site that is not good! I was able to retrieve my User Tables but the info was not in correct order or usable. I contacted Userport and after trying unsuccessfully myself to add the members - They did it FOR ME - WOW! Outstanding Customer Service and support!

I have over 4000 users i am trying to import from one joomla to another (1.5 to 1.7) I am using Userport there and here. Userport only imports about 115 users at once. It also, auto-emails everyone even though the option to NOT EMAIL everyone is clicked.

1.7 is severely bugged.

Great Application it works very well and it's easy to use it.
I have one question if someone knows to answer it. I want all my users to have the same password so I put in the password field the password but when I import them it doesnt accept the passwords. Should I encode them or use the "" for the passwords?

A great component for Joomla. Used it to do two batch imports of users from CSV files. First one was about 25 users, the second about 225.
Worked great, with little fuss. A few small teething problems, but these were more user error, and not due to the developer.
Tried both version 2, and more recently version 2.2.
Saved me a lot of time and manual work. At lest 2-3 hours. I am a relatively novice-intermediate Joomla user, so found it very helpful.

Very complete software, I just encountered a minor bug which didnt allowed for the file to be uploaded, but was evaded by pasting the file content directly.

I have used userport with a number of my Joomla 1.5 sites and love love love it. Easy to use and well designed. My question though, is there a 1.7 version? Or is one forthcoming?

Imported 673 users with previous encrypted passwords no problem. Imported 1933 new users with auto-generated passwords and emailed their usernames and passwords to them. Perfect!
Great response/support on joomlacode too.
Thanks!!

I struggled with another import/export component that was higher rated than userport, but just couldn't get it to work. So I gave userport a try and it worked perfectly on my first attempt! Thank you.

Here's the process I followed:

Upgraded the primary website's Joomla installation using the Fantastico option available.
1.5.17 --> 1.5.22

Backed up the website.

As I used a copy to restore the primary website onto the secondary's domain I had to do a manual update through cPanel's file manager.
1.5.20 - 1.5.22

Backed up the website.

Applied the upgrade through cPanel's file manager.

Backed up the website again.

Exported users from the primary domain

Imported to the secondary

Backups not required but hey, you never know...!

Observations...

Maybe a simple export & Import option for people like myself who simply want the data and can edit it locally later would be nice.

Reasonably intuitive but I still read through the process prior to executing the transfer.

All in all a good component and easy to use.

After seeing 5 stars everywhere for this extension, I've tried it ... and bang.... 5 more stars for me.... it is just excellent. It works without problem thx

I've trying to migrate data from a site without access to the database through phpMyAdmin. This was exactly what I needed. Allows export and import of user accounts including existing passwords. Great tool!

I used to Export my Users, all 400 of them and then Userport to finish it up... All in all EASY as pie.

GG

Was in need of this after being told last minute that a site I was designing would need to include the previous users.
A quick search led me here, and within 10 minutes I had everything setup and all current users updated to the new site.
Such an essential component that absolutely works flawlessly. Very good documentation within the component itself made it easy to just look, see what was required, provide the data and be done with it.

Hats off to the programmer!

This isn't a review; it's more of instructions on how to do this task using this component. I was unable to do this with any other component.

This specifically relates to exporting a user database from 1.0, including passwords, and importing them, passwords intact, into a 1.5 installation, a task which is actually rather hard without this component.

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Migrating users from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5.

This initially was a difficult task, but using a few steps I was able to complete it using an open-source extension. Even with this extension there are a number of steps you need to take that I was not aware of, and which took me a while to get through. However, I have heard that many people find imporing users a very difficult task from 1.0 and importing them into 1.5 without a full migration, this definitely worked for me.

Please be aware that this only imports the following fields:
name,username,email,password

It does not import
ID
Usertype
Block
SendEmail
gid
registerDate
lastvisitDate
activation
params

If you need those fields imported then you will probably have to do a full migration, as I was unable to find any way to export and import all of these fields easily. Usertype can be chosen when you import the data, as you will see.

1) Log into phpMyAdmin on your 1.0 site
2) Select the database of your 1.0 site
3) Click the Export tab
4) At the left, select *only* the jos_users section to export. If your prefix is different, I am not sure if this method will work when you import the database, but it should.
5) Select CSV for MS Excel
6) Check the "Put fields names in the first row" option at the right
7) Check the Save As item at the bottom, compression is none, then click Go, and save the file.
8) You have now exported your user database. Open this csv file in Excel or some other spreadsheet program.
9) Delete all columns except "name", "username", "email", and "password". Save this file.
10) Open this file again in a text editor. You should see multiple rows with your field items separated only by a comma.

11) Now its time to install the importer. Go here: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/5430/details
And navigate your way to download the 1.7 or later version of Userport. Make sure it's at least 1.7; the older versions cause errors.
12) Install this on your 1.5 site. Navigate to this component in your backend.
13) Set your parameters for "Given passwords are already properly encoded" to YES.

Select User type as "registered" or whatever type of user you are importing. Everything else is up to you, but this should be the only two you need to set.

IMPORTANT: If you have a lot of users in multiple user groups, such as 200 authors, 300 admins, and 1000 registred users, you will probably have to import these groups one at a time, otherwise you will have to go back and change their status to the correct one. For 5 super admins, for example, this is not a problem, but for a wide variety of users, the process would be more complex. You would filter out of your csv FIRST all users who are authors, save the file with only the authors, THEN delete all the fields like in step 9, and THEN import these users as Authors into Userport. You'd need to do this for each group.

14) Click import, then check the No Initial Text radio box, then click continue.
15) On the next page, copy a single line of a user from your open CSV file (which is open in your text editor) you are able to log into the old 1.0 site with, such as an admin account. Paste this into the CSV field, then click add.
16) If all goes well, you should see no errors, and then you can navigate to your current sites front end and try logging in as the user you just imported.
17) Now that you know it works, you can import them all at once this way by pasting your entire csv file in and adding all the users. If your csv file has a "" in it for a user, it might throw an error, but this doesn’t break the process.
18) Now go into your user database and alter any admin or superadmin or special usergroups that people were assigned to. If you have a wide variety of people assigned to usergroups, this method may require additional editing of users after they have been imported.

It took me quite a while to figure this out; this is the simplest way to do this. I went through a lot of paint o figure this out, as I could never get the user fields to export properly from the old site. This method is relatively painless.

I downloaded this component after searching for something that would allow me to extract my list of 380 users and install it onto a new Joomla install.

I played around with it first on a trial installation of Joomla 1.5.17 that I set up specifically for this purpose.

It took me a little while to get the passwords to copy across properly, but after checking out the support section I located the solution on page 2 of the support site.

Fantastic bit of code this, which will allow me to start a fresh installation of Joomla without losing my subscribers.

Thanks to the developer!

I had 2000 users with passwords to import. This component allowed me to import all the users AND send them all an email reminding them of their user name and password (some users are over 3 years old and they have probably forgotten the password). This saved me hours of individual emails to users who had forgotten their password.

Excellent!!!

This very nice!

Saved me hours of work - very simple to use and does exactly what it claims to do.

You just saved me hours of trying to figure out SQL. Thank you very much.

it does what it said