email to welcome new members

[mfacer]

hey,

I have been looking for literally hours for this hack, but had no luck.... so I have used some old code and modified it to work.... so, here is what I did for vB version 2.3.2:

in register.php find the following code: (about line 570)


eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_registerthanks")."\",\"".iif(strpos($url,"register")>0,"index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]",$url)."\");");


(btw... I have guessed at the vb code and php markers.. cos the WYSIWYG editor kept giving me errors when I used the buttons!)

then right above, put:


//send an email to the new user
eval("\$message = \"".gettemplate("welcomeemail")."\";");
eval("\$subject = \"".gettemplate("welcomeemailsubject")."\";");

vbmail ($email,$subject,$message);



then in the vB admin, create a new template and call it "welcomeemail" and put something like:


Dear $username,
Welcome our Forums!
message goes here!
Kind Regards,
Your Team


note the single line returns, cos when the email was sent, it put double lines in..?!

then create another template called "welcomeemailsubject" and put something like


Welcome to our Forum!


upload the register.php file and bobs your uncle.... it works!! :)

(hopefully)!!!

Hope it works for others!

Matt Facer
(mfacer)

[insanctus]

I may install this one in a bit, but by looking at code it looks good.

[insanctus]

As asked for here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=57316

To add their password in the welcome mail, while in register.php find
$password = trim($password);
Under it place
$passwordemail=$password;

In the welcomeemail template add $passwordemail where you want it to show so for instance.
Dear $username,
Welcome our Forums!
You have signed up with the following information:
Username: $username
Password: $passwordemail
More welcome stuff here.
Kind Regards,
Your Team

Hope that helps :)

[mfacer]

nice one insanctus, looks good!

[iceman-x]

it works fine.
If you are not yousing:
"Verify Email address in registration" have to be off.

Is it posible to make it to work whit dis setting on.

Nice work !

[insanctus]

To do this, with it to send password at a later time it would have to be stored non encrypted, which I personaly would never do for a hack. (does not believe people should have it unencrypted).

The rest of it would be not to hard I am sure.

[3DSJFH]

I'm getting this error when trying to register a new user:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbmail() in /var/www/html/vb/register.php on line 541

[insanctus]

I tested it on my test board the other day VB 2.3.2 with no issue.

Sounds like your putting it in the wrong place.

[3DSJFH]

Forgot to mention I'm using 2.2.9.

[insanctus]

I have not looked at 2.9 nor have it on disk no more. Perhaps someone who is on it can post the trouble.

I just hacked my hosting site board exact as said on here and it sent email no errors.

Dear test,
Welcome our Forums!

You have signed up with the following information:
Username: test
Password: testing

Please make sure to look at our hosting plans.
Thank You,
Sanoxs Solutions

[mfacer]

hmm.. looks like vbMail() isnt used... just use another mail function then! replace the vbMail with:

mail ($email,$subject,$message);

and see if that works?

[3DSJFH]

That worked, thanks a lot!

[dave777]

I can't get it to work. I'm using 2.3.2 and have pasted the code exactly as you said mfacer, but no welcome email is being sent.

[stryka]

I don't know how this happend but when i implemented this hack i used a familiar password (12345)... but now... every subsequent new member is sent their password as (12345)... no matter what they entered in the form... ???

And it workz too...

any suggestions will be great... did a SEARCH of my templates to see if i have that hardcoded anywhere and within register.php

no clue..

thanx

[stryka]

Does anyone have any suggestions? I checked the form for hidden values and i don't get nothing?

lemme know... thanx..