Migrating Members to eMember

[cflyrun]

Hi there. I have from my database a list of all of the emails and passwords of members currently signed up. I’m using PHPurchase and looking to switch to eMember for a particular site. I don’t have that many members *yet*, thank goodness, so I’m happy to manually add them in to eMember.

Here’s my question – I’ve got all their passwords from the database, but they’re encrypted somehow. Most of the members are still using the password I provided to them, which I can see because the encrypted strings are identical for many members. If I plug that encrypted string in as their new password somewhere, will it still work? Or, do I just move them over to the new system and assign a new password to everybody and notify them? Tips? Tricks? Migration advice?

Thanks

[amin007]

The password is kept in the database with a MD5 encoding. It’s an one way encryption so there is no way to know the original password. This way only the user knows the password and no one else can know it (not even by looking at the field in the database.

With that said, this is what you do..

1) Add them as a member with a default password of something like “ChangeMe777”

2) Send them an email to let them know and instruct them to use the “Reset Password” feature to change the password to something they like.

Quick Tip: You can check the “Send Email to Member When Added via Admin Dashboard” option from the “Registration Complete” email settings of eMember so they get the email automatically after you add them as a member from the admin dashboard. You can customize your “Registration Complete” email body to say the password change stuff and you won’t have to worry about the rest.

[cflyrun]

Sweet, thanks!

Daisy

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