Thanks a lot for the good product!

Just one question: When tweaking the messages, what coding language do I use for hyperlinking, etc.? BBC, html, or something new for me to learn? ;-)

Cheers!
Sverre.

HTML should be used.

:-) That makes it a bit easier!

Now, is there any way I can preview these messages? Or will I just have to hope I coded it right?

SGL.

You can setup users who fall into the various categories or just view the html in a browser but there is no preview functionality.

Okay, thanks a lot! Works like a dream! :)

SGL.

What a great add-on! Initially, I was interested in this solely to spruce up vBulletin's drab welcome message, but having read through all the other nifty things this add-on can do, I'll definitely be making use of its plethora of other useful features.

Kudos and thanks to the developer.

Thanks

Great solution to getting browsers to sign up! I don't know why I didn't install it before! Thanks!

Awesome, so easy and such a great tool! Thanks much! *smooch* :D

Hi,

Is there anyway I can stop this from displaying for banned member?

Thank you for any help :)

Very nice mod....thank you for sharing. ;)

When posting the new code in the navbar, I get the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ']', expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/eazy0000/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3596) : eval()'d code on line 376

It there anyone that could walk me through this hack in setting it up, or better yet going in my in my CPs and doing it for me? Sorry, I'm new to hacks and vB in general. Please PM me if you can help.

Thanks,
Eric

It sounds like you are either using the wrong version of the hack for your version of vbulletin or you have modified a template in a way which is producing invalid code. The only thing you should be adding to your navbar template for this hack is the variable $welcomeheaders. Try saving the template without making any changes and see if it produces an error.

Works Great...thx

Installed again after a few months absence, great hack :)

I'm running Welcome Headers v4.2.2....

I'm also running "Limited Guest Viewing" v1.0.6

Within "Welcome Headers" under the AdminCP options, I have set


In spite of that, the custom "Welcome Headers" message I've set appears for un-registered users and once my threshold for reading threads/posts of 5 (my setting), it still continues to appear, but I also get the "Limited Guest Viewing" start to appear underneath it. :confused:

I thought that with the supression option turned ON, the "Welcome Headers" message would be superceded by the "Limited Guest Viewing" message when the post count was reached?

It looks odd to see BOTH messages displaying concurrently.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Badger

When suppression is enabled the welcome headers won't appear on any showthread pages. Either your hack versions are not upgraded to the latest versions or there is some other code conflicting with the plugins.

What this code does is checks if LGV is on, and if so, if WH Supression is off and if so, if the script is showthread, printthread or showpost. If anything is changing any of these variables or the page names it won't work properly.

Thanks Ted.... :)

I appreciate the response, even though this mod is listed as "unsupported" ... :up:

I'm just an old Fortran programmer, so please bear with me... ;)

I checked for conflicting variable names that might be conflicting using search. Only found this:


Even though both versions numbers (as mentioned previously) were showing current in the "Installed Products" display, I completely re-installed (overwrote) both mods, "Welcome Headers v4.2.2" and "Limited Guest Viewing" v1.0.6. I made sure that variables were patched into the templates as per the instructions. I do not use VBSEO.

I then enabled the "Limited Guest Viewing" v1.0.6 and logged out, reading 5 posts as an un-registered user. My custom "Welcome Headers v4.2.2" message showed fine during the first 5 (my limit set in "Limited Guest Viewing"), however, as soon as I read the 6th post, my custom "Limited Guest Viewing" v1.0.6 message showed up below my "Welcome Headers v4.2.2" message, which continued to be displayed concurrently.

In any event, there must be something conflicting someplace, but my v3.67pl vBulletin is not a complicated installtion, so I have no idea what's happening.

"Welcome Headers" is what's important for me and since it works fine on its own, I think I'll just un-install "Limited Guest Viewing" and go from here.

Thanks for your coding and support... again, much appreciated.

If you ever want to check out what could be the problem, let me know and I'll provide you with full Admin access to view the templates, plugins etc.

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

Now I'm really confused. :confused:

I thought I'd take another look at this before I uninstalled the Limited Guest Viewing mod, so as a test, I wanted to see what happened if I turned the Limited Guest Viewing Surpression option OFF, even though I have that mod installed.

If I have the Limited Guest Viewing Surpression option ON, then my custom Welcome Headers message appears on ALL pages, including the Forum Home and also Show Thread pages. As I said in previous posts, once the guest's preset number of posts he's allowed to read is reached, the extra warning starts to appear below the Welcome Headers message on ALL pages.

If I have the Limited Guest Viewing Surpression option OFF, then my custom Welcome Headers message only appears on Forum Home page. However, when the "guest" advisory message appears, it only appears on the Show Thread pages.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong, or perhaps I don't understand what these switches are supposed to be dong?

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Badger

Limited guest viewing only impacts showthread and showpost pages. Welcome headers impacts every page unless limited guest viewing is installed, enabled and suppression is on.

awesome hack i run a new site which gets about 6 - 10 new members a day
installed this like 1 am its 7 am and got 6 new members so far
and to top it off there active lol
thanks for the good work

Hello, I am having a little trouble with this.. It installed fine on 3.6.7pli,

My users need to be activated by Admin.

I notice that if I register a user, they receive the "Havent posted yet" message, even when not activated.
It seems that the "Not activated" yet message isnt working

Im not using any other hacks to guest viewing or anything
any ideas, since its not really right telling them they havent posted yet, when they cannot yet if they havent been activated

How can I fix this?

Thankyou :)

If all else fails turn off the haven't posted welcome header...

just add to it a bit about your account may need to be activated

Is there a way to get the 2 seperate messages to work?

According to the first post, the 2 messages are seperate...

One for Unactivated........ and a different one for not posted.....

If Ted can tell me how to fix this, that would be much appreciated.

Also Im a little unsure of how to change the wording..... and add links etc.....

It sounds like you are moving users to a group other than the default pending one and as a result, the hack doesn't see them as pending. You can add conditionals to the template welcome_headers to customize the messages for your particular forum setup.

Hi Ted, Im not moving them anywhere...... the default pending group, automatically goes to Registered users when I activate them... , its same as VB Defaults .

Any other reasons that might be happening?

Thankyou for your help, Id really like to get this working....

What is the ID of your pending group (check in your Usergroup Manager)?

Hi Ted, Groups as Follows:

Users Awaiting Moderation: ID = 4

when I activated them they move to registered users.

Registered Users: ID=2

Those are from the VB Default, Ive never changed them

Welcome headers is setup to use group ID #3 for pending activation.

There are two ways you can address this... either you can add a new message or you can edit the template welcome_headers and change line 35:

Hi Ted, I possibly gave you wrong info....

Seems I have 2 user groups awaiting confirmation:

(COPPA) Users Awaiting moderation : ID=4

Users awaiting email confirmation : ID=3

They then go into registered users ID=2 when I activate them....

Sorry for incorrect info previously......

Those groups are VB defaults .....

Thankyou for helping sort this out for me :)

In that case you would need to add a message to handle people in group #2 (few people use the moderation option and almsot everyone uses it differently). You can copy an existing welcome header message, like the one on line 35, in the template welcome_headers and insert it before the message addressing post count.

Great plugin...but.

I uninstalled this plugin temporarily because I dont know how quickly the emails get sent out. I customized alot of the phrases and links for the emails being sent out.. and have no way of telling if everything came out ok.. The last thing I want to do is sent out emails to thousands of members with broken links. Thats as unprofessional as it gets.

I was wondering, how come there isnt a test email function available...or will it be available soon?

Another recommendation : Being able to customize the Title : of the emails being sent out.

You must have this hack confused with something else... welcome headers appear on your website and don't have any relationship to email messages.

Ted, I am confused.

I thought this program would send out a email if they havent logged in for a certain period of time....or if they havent posted in a certain amount of time ? I would think that would work much better.

Also, is there a listing of what each number refers to in the phrases..and if we could add other variables. (example: the {2} {3} stuff )

and you got that idea where?

any idea how to remove the welcome headers from the home page, but have it everywhere else?

If it was not a plugin and a template mod instead I think there is an <IF> that covers it but no idea with plugins. Maybe youc an palce the same if conditional on the XML file.

<if condition="$forum[forumid] == X">XML</if>

try this tag have no idea how it will work i have never edited XML files

where you see the X put in the forum ID's of the forums you the header on.

Open the XML file find

<!-- // Start Welcome Headers // -->

after it put this in

<if condition="$forum[forumid] == X">

Go right to the end and add this

</if>

when i use this mod, seems like my database server load is jump to 100.
do you think this mod that causing this high load?
any idea? anybody use this on big boards (mine have 3000-5000 users online)