new members question

[aspire007]

On my site i set it to where there is newbies, members, and so on but what i want to know is when someone registers they automatically get setup as a member not a newbie. how do i change that to where when they sign up they start as a newbie?

[aspire007]

does anyone know this? please :)

[Logician]

This depends on your settings like

do you use coppa system
do you require moderation for new users
do you require email verification before registration etc.


eg. if you dont use coppa, not require moderation for new users, but require email check here is the part you should change:

in register.php:

} else {
// activate account
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET usergroupid=2 WHERE userid='$u'");

Change 2 there with the usergroupid of your newbie users..

If you have other settings check lines begining with:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET usergroupid= ...

These are the lines vbulletin fixes your users usergroupid.. You can find the relevant line according to your settings and change the X there with new usergroupid.

(make sure to backup register.php before proceeding!)