When you use $username that calls the username of the person who just registered since a variable cant logically have 2 answers you must either

a: create a new variable similar to $username and insert it into the coding structure of the forum (this gets complicated i wouldnt try it)

or B: make $username the UserName of the Staff member who you want to welcome people

Could this maybe be substituted by a multi-line textbox on the registration page for a user to type in the actual post? That would be very nice to have.

so...after 19 pages of posts, is there a clear working version of this at all??

for 3.5 or 3.6???

How do you choose which forum and what the welomce thead says? Would be nice if there was a nice menu in admincp for this.

Simple answer is yes, its working with vB 3.6
I had it installed on my vB 3.5 and updated the board to vB 3.6
The hack is still working fine as you can see here
http://www.clanforums.com/forum/intr...html#post80338

rofl...i threw in 3.6 as a postscript, its 3.5 im bothered about mate.....

and it seems its NOT working correctly with that version...

after the original post, there seems to be soooooo many conflicting posts about what code to use, and theres been no definitive answer from the author as yet....or an edited instruction set with the correct code to use...

Well its written for 3.5 and I used it also in that version.
Whats not working for you?

is there something like this for 3.6.0 ?... would realy appriciate it... :D

go back a page and read my edits they work regardless of what version of 3.5 or 3.6 you have they have both

used lil7rocket `s edited xml, and it works fine on 3.5....thanks

Is this version available somewhere?

Installed and working perfectly on my 3.6 board. This is a GREAT hack. Thanks to Amy and to Lil7rocket for the revisions.

You know this is built in to 3.6, right? :D

No...I obviously did not know that and from all the posts, many others didn't either. Where is it located? I know that welcome PMs are there and welcom emails but where is the option to enable a welcome thread?

I'm so sorry. I was looking at multiple threads at the same time on multiple forums. I'm wrong.

Hey...no problem. It would have been entirely possible that I had missed it. :)

Trying to remove this hack due to the unresolved "waiting for moderation" issue. I've deleted the plugin, but I can't delete the welcome_thread template. Any idea how to remove that? It's in my main style area.

Revert the template. That should delete it.

I reverted the template and all it did was set it back to the original coding of "EA is a very diverse........" Not that it's doing any harm by being there, hopefully I'll be editing it again soon when the waiting for moderation issue gets identified/resolved.

Did you try lilrocket's edit above:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=272
and
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=279

Apparently that'll let it work with moderation turned on... haven't had a chance to test it myself.

I installed the xml file from above

I checked the hook location and it's already set to register_addmember_complete. It's still creating the welcome thread prior to moderation/account approval.

Oh well, we'll just manually create a new thread for each new person.

Ouch. Bummer. I really wish I could use an add-on like this, but with the thread starting after the user moderation has been approved.

Thanks for the feedback, though. I appreciate it and saves me much hassle.

i would go ahead and port this to 3.6, but it appears as though amykhar is already doing so to some of her hacks... and i don't want to step on any toes.

Any look on getting this for 3.6 ?

The reports I have are that it works as written on 3.6. No need to port. Just install and use. I don't generally repost the mods in the 3.6 section if they don't need changes to work. If it doesn't work in 3.6, let me know and I'll look at it. I no longer use it at my site.

I have it working on both my sites and have done since 3.6.0 beta 1 (or was it beta 2?)

Not working here on 3.6.0 :surprised:

I have installed this on 3.6.1 and all was fine....except it is creating a thread from an unknown user 'Lullaby' and the thread is not in a forum. I canno view / admin / moderate this thread as it gives me a message syaing I need to be admin even though I am.

The hack is also posting the correct welcome message as well.

Help!!!

Same for me, running 3.6.2. Works fine but it posts the welcome thread instantly and I don't want it to do so until they have responded to the email verification.

Mine is only posting a welcome thread when the new member posts a first thread....can I change this to when they register??

Has this been ported to 3.6.2?

Anybody any ideas on my 2 queries???

I just installed this on my 3.6.2, it works like a charm, edited the plugin with no issues and the template. Thanks Amy :)

My pleasure

I'm using this and it works great. I still have the problem though of it posting the thread as SOON as they register and I would like it to not post until they have confirmed the email confirmation. Can somebody help with this?

Also, I would like to add one thing to the thread title or subject. Where it now says Welcome: Newuser....I would like it to also add the location of the user..for example. Welcome: Newuser from location How would I do that?

Thanks in advance.

I'd like to use this mod, but would prefer to wait for the above functionality too please. I've clicked install so I can keep track of developments.

Can anyone give me pointers re the template installed by this addon. The template does not seem to be processed for markup so I am unsure of what to put into it. I am om 3.61. SO if anyone could post the content of their template showing how to do markup, it would be appreciated.

Cheers
Bruce

hmm dont seem to be working on 3.64 as i got this error.
Hope it is ported over to 3.64.
I got this error.

anyone know what this means?

Like to see a version for 3.6.4 coz don't work on it atm..

I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm using my own version of this hack on 3.6.4...