this is a great idea, I salute the original poster idea and thank for his efforts to try to make it work, as well as the others who had fixed the bugs.

However, is there a way the bugs fixed and all that can come in product upgrade, let's say version 1.3 or so? I run 3.8.4 and tagged install right before installing but then I took my time to read the whole thread and now I am not installing this until find something similar fully debugged. Is there any other developer that already came up with it under other name? or just BBR-APBT is in charge of this for now and for the vB4.0 (which we are not upgrading since still in beta).

Do you have a test site?

Try to install the version for 4.0 on the 3.8 test site. It just may work!!!

No test site yet... all the test I run them on the demo vesion but as you know no products/mods can be installed :(
I will give try on the low activity hours on the forum, thanks a lot for the info, I thought the 4.0 was a completely rewrite so the product will not work there.

Let you know! :up:

This really doesn't use much on the vbulletin side of things that have changed. Which is why I said it may work. I don't have a test site for 3.8 only for 4.0 or I would have tested it.

testing for 3.8 now, been waiting for the bugs to be worked out of this one

good job BBR!

seems to be no issues thus far on 3.8 test board for the record

I've installed product-welcomethread140609.xml this one. It sends the messages with random users but random messages won't work on my 3.8.4 board. In addition to that it send only 4 of the users while I have more than 4 users written to post a welcome thread.

Any progress on vbulletin 4 version?

getting a database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT userid
FROM useractivation
WHERE activationid = 'd62941f74c66347c70fd99dd255c4849000fe92d';

MySQL Error : Table 'ozmazdac_forum.useractivation' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Monday, February 1st 2010 @ 05:41:38 PM
Error Date : Monday, February 1st 2010 @ 05:41:38 PM
Script : http://www.ozmazdaclub.com/forums/re...hp?do=activate
Referrer : http://www.ozmazdaclub.com/forums/register.php?a=ver
IP Address : 58.165.1.223
Username : wildrose85
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

I got this same error today. I'm no expert at SQL, but I know enough to know that it appears one of the plugins is trying to SELECT the id from a table name, without accounting for your table's prefix first. I was able to fix it this way.

Like I said, I'm no expert, so use at your own risk. But it makes sense to me. Maybe someone more versed in MySQL can verify.

In Plugins & Products >> Plugin Manager >> Product : Welcome Thread, edit the plugin that uses the register_activate_start hook. Add the code in red:
Be careful with the syntax. The syntax is important. Don't just assume that quote mark or period or what have you is unimportant. It needs to be there.