adduser automation

Is there an easy way to automate the adduser script I'd like to run a script which creates several users listed in a text file (or db) and sets their passwords thank's for help Martin Dragun

Apache and PHP

I tried to install a new php 3.0.16-2 package it wants me to install some libs such as libz1 libdb2 2.4.14-7 I cannot find them. How should I proceed, I need a newer php version - at least 3.0.6 to work on my computer. Thanks Yegon