Custom Usergroup on Registration (via e-mail address).
 

This is a little custom hack originally written for Aeroguy.

This hack allows you to assign a custom usergroup that any users who match a given list of e-mail addresses (or part addresses) will be put into when they confirm their registration - users who are not matched will be still go into the default group (2).

Obviously you must be using e-mail confirmation of registrations for this to work.

Unzip the xml file and import it into vbulletin via the product manager.


History:

v1.01 : First Release.
v1.02 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

thanx for the hack.. i was looking for something like this..

Hi...Can i ask what this would actually be used for please?
I mean what was the purpose that prompted the request?

I believe they ran a site associated with a college, so they wanted anyone with a college e-mail address to go into a special usergroup.

Ah....yeah i understand it now, i can see where this would be handy for some forums....

Cheers Paul

Paul, im gonna make a golden statue in your honour :P

Thank you thank you!

Also seems like a viable alternative to banning free e-mail addresses, which I never understood.

Thank you, actually pretty useful hack

Anyone got a good list of free email hosts? Today our forum suddently got hit with a major bogus user assault.

Paul
what about Additional, Secondary usergroups?

Not sure what that has to do with this hack ?

This has no effect on secondary groups - this is about what primary group you are assigned to when you confirm your registration.

ok Paul, Thanks

i fount that
another question

what's difference between registration_activate_process and registration_addember_process hook locations?

Well the names pretty much say it all. The addmember_process is called when a new member is added (i.e. when you first register), while activate_process is when a member validates themselves via e-mail verification.

how hard would it be to transform this so instead of email it looks at age?

It would be a totally new mod.

ohh ok nevermind sorry

Installed.

I am using this on 4.1.12 and it works which is awesome. The one problem I am having is with case-sensitive issues. When they register, I put them in a different usergroup which works great except when they case-sensitivity of their email address does not match up. For example, if I am "AshenTemper@gmail.com" under the list but I sign up using "ashentemper@gmail.com" (or vice versa), it sees them as two different email addresses and does not put me in the proper group.

Any way of addressing this issue? And yes, I do realize this mod is no longer being supported... just hoping someone who reads this and is familiar with the mod might have some good info/feedback.

Just came across this thread. It looks like it does exactly what I need... almost. I'm new to vBulletin - does anyone know how to tweak this so that users get added to additional usergroups instead of moved to a different primary one?

I assume this could be changed by editing this part:

I'm just not familiar enough with vB yet; I assume it could simply be about using a different key/parameter instead of "usergroupid" in the first couple of lines.

I'd appreciate any help or input!



@AshenTemper / case-sensitive issues...

While a vB newbie, I do know PHP, and you could achieve case-insensitivity by editing the code a tiny bit. Open the XML file in a text editor (e.g. Notepad, not Word) and look at like 30 that contains the following:

Replace this line with the following:

What this will do is turn ANY capital letter into lowercase on both ends before comparing the two - i.e. both the list you've entered in admin and the email the user signed up with will be converted to lowercase for comparison. I haven't tested this, but it should do the trick.

I realize that you asked this question about a year ago, but maybe this will help others down the road.

Following up on my own question above about adding users to a secondary usergroup instead of moving them to a different primary one:

I found the solution and modified the code of the plugin - it works perfectly. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can upload the modified XML here.