Easy Profile - Joomla Extension

Hi,
sorry this is not possible natively, but you can download and customize import plugin (frontend)
- Download, Install and enabled it (http://docs.easy-profile.com/index.php/article/import-plugin)
- Open files /plugins/jsn/userimport/userimport.php
- Customize file:
replace from line 66 to line 90 this code:

		if(JRequest::getVar('goimport',false))

		{

			if(isset($_FILES['filecsv']) && !empty($_FILES['filecsv']['name']))

			{

				require_once('parsecsv.lib.php');

				$this->csv=new parseCSV();

				/* TODO ENCODING */

				$content = file_get_contents($_FILES['filecsv']['tmp_name']);

				$firstline = strtok($content, "\n");

				$firstline = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-,;_\r"]/', '', $firstline);

				$content=$firstline."\n".preg_replace('/^.+\n/', '', $content);

				$this->csv->auto($content);

				$this->check();

			}

			else

			{

				$app=JFactory::getApplication();

				$app->enqueueMessage('No file selected','error');

				$this->getForm();

			}

		}

		else

		{

			$this->getForm();

		}

with this:

				if( JRequest::getVar('code','') != 'SOME_SECURITY_CODE' ) return;

				require_once('parsecsv.lib.php');

				$this->csv=new parseCSV();

				$content = file_get_contents('URL_OF_YOUR_CSV_FILE');

				$firstline = strtok($content, "\n");

				$firstline = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-,;_\r"]/', '', $firstline);

				$content=$firstline."\n".preg_replace('/^.+\n/', '', $content);

				$this->csv->auto($content);

				$this->check();

- replace:
SOME_SECURITY_CODE with some code
URL_OF_YOUR_CSV_FILE with url of your remote CSV or path of local csv files
- create cron process that trigger this url: http://your-domain/index.php?option=com_jsn&view=import&code=SOME_SECURITY_CODE

NOTE: This code is not tested and not supported, this code is provided only for example purpose, you need to have some PHP knowledge to implement this.
NOTE 2: in the latest release you can continue to import CSV files manually from backend

hi,
you can import all Joomla core fields and Easy Profile custom fields with import feature, but if in Easy Profile options you have set "Login Type" to "Email" then the username will be always generated from the system.

I have the Login Type set to Both, so will Username in Joomla! be updatable via Easy Profile's import?

Yes.

I'm having a problem with the import process matching the field names though in Easy Profile. I am getting a report that columns in the CSV source file which match the alias won't be imported because there is no match. Maybe this is a text case issue? Example, will DistrNbr match "distrnbr" or will the file's column fields have to be exact upper/lower case?

column titles need to match exactly with alias of fields.
for example: "Username" is different from "username"

I have tried to override the alias for one of the fields, but Easy Profile keeps changing it and then won't let me change it later...its an all numeric field column "3030" and I put 3030 in the alias, but Easy Profile changes it to something like field_xxxxxxxxxxxx and then its locked out from further changes. I can't modify the source file so I need to import fields (that is it comes to me by way of a URL and without routing it through a filter of some sort, I can't modify what the vendor provides us with directly).

Each field create a column in DB table and column names like "3030" are not allowed by DB.
I think that the most easy way is to change "3030" to Easy Profile field in csv content, for example from my above code you can add this:

.....

$firstline = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-,;_\r"]/', '', $firstline);

/* START - HERE CODE TO CHANGE FIRSTLINE OF CSV */

$firstline = str_replace('3030', 'FIELDALIAS', $firstline);

$firstline = str_replace('DistrNbr', 'distrnbr', $firstline);

.......

/* END - HERE CODE TO CHANGE FIRSTLINE OF CSV */

$content=$firstline."\n".preg_replace('/^.+\n/', '', $content);

.....

Of course you can use this way also to convert column title from "DistrNbr" to "distrnbr" (or something_else).