Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. You're right. A wealth of info, as usual.

maybe I didnt phrase this right - what I am wanting to know, is in the message posted to the specified forum by the welcome bot, is there a way to make the new member's name a link to their profile?


So it will say:

"Let's welcome (membername) to our community!"

And (membername) will be a link that goes to the member's profile. So if someone wants to PM the new member, or whatever, they can click right on their name in the post, and go to their info.

Jilly, I don't remember what the new user's userid variable is in that section of the code and don't have time to look for it. All you need is the userid and you should be able to format your link, which should be clickable.

Given that you're a coder, I'll leave that little exercise to you.

Thanks! I will try it out..

LOL - I am only a 'coder' because that's the default vb.org usertitle for the amount of posts I've made. Large amout of posts doesn't necessarily equal coding brains :)
I do know enough to be dangerous, though. So off into dangerous waters I go!
If I can figure it out, I'll add it here to the thread..

I'm using flypaper's edit to have a "WelcomeBot" user create a post inside a pre-established Welcoming thread. Alas, I still can't get the final piece of the puzzle in place: to insert the name of the new member in the post's text.

Obviously, it leaves $username as $username. I know I am missing something basic. Any assistance on how to edit the text properly would be appreciated.

And if all of these edits have morphed this hack into a totally seperate and annoying concoction, that's cool. Just let me know and I'll scurry along. :nervous:

Try that.

Or that.

One of them should work. I think... LOL

That one worked! Thanks so much, flypaper.

As soon as there's a way to delay the posting of this until after the new user has been moderated in (as opposed to "as soon as they register") I'll be enjoying the heck out of this hack.

ok where do i find this datamanager please?

Is this in the works? This is a great hack, but I need to wait for moderation also.

Thanks!

Can you try this for me? I can't say that I totally understand the conditional used, but its what Andreas uses for his Welcome PM hack. This should create the post AFTER admin approval. I think. :D