Question

I have more than 300,000 users on an old online store. Client switched to Magento solution and now have to migrate all the users, addresses to Magento. So I have to write a custom script to import users and their address to the Magento system.

Are there any tutorials or similar sort of work already done. Please help me.

Thanks

Answer 1

Here’s an example of how I migrated users from OSC into Magento with the SOAP library. This script was run on the old server and needs to be run from the ssh command line (php execution time through the browser will not support this

    $proxy = new SoapClient('http://[your magento url]/api/soap/?wsdl=1');
    $sessionId = $proxy->login('admin', '[your password]');

    // connect to local db

    $link = mysql_connect('localhost', '[old ecommerce db]', '[old db pw]');
    if (!$link) {
        die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    mysql_select_db('sbc_osc', $link);

    $sql = "SELECT * FROM customers";

    $customers = mysql_query($sql);

    // loop thyrough customers
    while ($customer = mysql_fetch_assoc($customers)) {

        set_time_limit(600);

        $newCustomer = array(
            'firstname'  => $customer['customers_firstname'],
            'lastname'   => $customer['customers_lastname'],
            'email'      => $customer['customers_email_address'],
            'password_hash' => $customer['customers_password'],
            'store_id'   => 2, // set the store you want to send to
            'website_id' => 2
        );

        $telephone = $customer['customers_telephone'];
        $fax = $customer['customers_fax'];

        try{
            $newCustomerId = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'customer.create', array($newCustomer));
        }
        catch (Exception $e) {
            echo "failed to create customer for: " . $customer['customers_firstname'] . " " . $customer['customers_lastname'] . "\n";
        }

        // grab the default address
        $sql = "SELECT ab.*, c.countries_iso_code_2, z.zone_name, z.zone_id
                FROM address_book ab 
                LEFT JOIN countries c ON ab.entry_country_id =  c.countries_id
                LEFT JOIN zones z ON ab.entry_zone_id = z.zone_id
                WHERE customers_id = {$customer['customers_id']} AND address_book_id = {$customer['customers_default_address_id']}";

        $addresses = mysql_query($sql);

        while ($address = mysql_fetch_assoc($addresses)) {

            $newCustomerAddress = array(
                'firstname'  => $address['entry_firstname'],
                'lastname'   => $address['entry_lastname'],
                'company'    => $address['entry_company'],
                'country_id' => $address['countries_iso_code_2'],
                'region_id'  => $address['zone_id'],
                'region'     => ($address['zone_name'] != "" ? $address['zone_name'] : $address['entry_state']),
                'city'       => $address['entry_city'],
                'street'     => array($address['entry_street_address']),
                'telephone'  => $telephone,
                'fax'        => $fax,
                'postcode'   => $address['entry_postcode'],
                'is_default_billing'  => true,
                'is_default_shipping' => true,
            );

            try{
                $newAddressId = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'customer_address.create', array($newCustomerId, $newCustomerAddress));
            }
            catch (Exception $e) {
                echo "failed to add address for: " . $address['entry_firstname'] . " " . $address['entry_lastname'] . "\n";
            }
        }

        echo "migrated: " . $customer['customers_firstname'] . " " . $customer['customers_lastname'] . "\n";

    }


    mysql_close($link);

One thing you need to watch out for is the passwords.. for this to work I had to set up Magento to use the same password hashing schema.