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We do that in our authentication plugin (as we user our own SSO plugin).

Its perhaps not the best place for it but it works and means the first time a user logs in their profile picture is there.

What we do is CURL in the image from a URL and store it in a temporary directory which is required to then use Moodles function to crop the image.

Once we have the image in place we simply call:

process_new_icon($context, 'user', 'icon', 0, $filepath);

That function will crop the image and put it in the users profile for you.

yes you can add user pictures through programmatically.

• you need to add one filed in mdl_user table.ex:url_picture(give default value is null)
• next you have any csv file are text file there need to be one matching filed csv file(moodle username or email )Ex:testusername(this is moodle username)|https://www.google.co.in//images/srpr/logo11w.png(This is image url)
• next you need to write one query for inserting all image urls based on user name.
  
• now we have all image urls inserted respected usernames in moodle database.
• next open lib/outputrenderers.php line number 2317 function name  render_user_picture

     old Code :$src = $userpicture->get_url($this->page, $this);

     New CODE : 

 $user_picture_url = "select * from {user} where id = ".$userpic;

$module_course = $DB->get_records_sql($user_picture_url);

foreach($module_course AS $rec){

$url_picture=$rec->url_picture;

}

if($url_picture != NULL && $user->picture == 0)

{

if (getimagesize($url_picture) !== false) {

//echo 'display image';

$src = $url_picture;

}else{

$src = $userpicture->get_url($this->page, $this);

}

}

• here what happened is it's showing user picture with respected images what ever we inserted.
• here condition is if user is uploaded profile picture through moodle profile page it will show moodle image priority.

Praveen 

Hi!

You need to use php function copy to move your image from the external source to your (tempotary) folder, and then you need to use Moodle function process_new_icon

You can read about upload user profiles images at the article here: http://lms-service.org/blog/news/lenauth-updated-version-1-1-0/