Auto-Subscribe New User to Forum
 

What is it?
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This mod automatically subscribes new users to one or more forums. The forums and type of notification can be set under "User Registration Options" in the adminCP. (Works on vb4 or vb3 versions).

(This was created in response to this request: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=260225).


Installation:
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1) In the Product Manager in AdminCP, import the product XML file (product-kh99_autosubscribeforum.xml).

2) Go to vBulletin Option -> User Registration Options to set the comma-separated list of forum ids, and type of notification.


Uninstalling:
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1) Uninstall the product from the Product Manager in the AdminCP. (Doing so will not remove any existing subscriptions).


Notes:
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1) Tested on vb4.1.5 and vb3.8.3.


History:
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1.1 (Aug 26, 2011) - Added support for multiple forums
1.0 (Aug 25, 2011) - Initial Release

Nice one Idea thank you!

Thank you very much
I'm looking for a long-time mode

I suggest options
Each new topic
Each new reply
New topics and new reply

What should I do if the current registered members to subscribe?

can we make multi forums as choices?
for sample forum id 1,2?

Yes. I updated the mod to allow more than one forum to be listed.

(If you only need to subscribe users to one forum, there's no reason to update).

Is there any advice on how to auto-subscribe current users? or can you put this feature on this MOD, please? :D

It would be a good idea to auto-subscribe to older users :D

Agreed.

Isnt this illegal... dont users have to say yes or no to subscribing to a forum?

I don't know, I'm not a lawyer or anything. But I know I get subscribed to newsletters all the time. My understanding is that (in the US anyway) the email needs to include instructions for unsubscribing, and the vb subscription emails do.

But that's a good point - anyone who chooses to use this should make sure it's not breaking any laws where they live or host their site.



Is this a joke about the way something's worded? I don't get it.

I don't want to add it to this mod, but I'm attaching a script you can use to add forum subscriptions for all users. You need to edit the script to set the forums and type of notification, upload it to your forum directory, run it, then remove it.

As someone mentioned above, I have no idea if subscribing someone to a mailing list is legal everywhere or not. But I do know that it's annoying, and doing it too often (or doing it after someone has chosen to unsubscribe) may well be illegal, so use with caution.

Thx, i'll try ur script ASAP.. :p

About illegal or not is depend on members,,, on my forum members always ask how to subscribe some thread on the first they register... :rolleyes:

excuse me for my english man...... well. ... using a translator...

"It would be a good idea to also run the auto-subscribe for registered users"

Oh..OK, sorry. I guess the smilie made me think you were joking. :)

noooo... I didn't joking XD it was a simple idea. because, I'm searching something like this, the auto-subscribe for older users... no only for new XD :p XD

Hi - I am having problems with this mod and just wanted to clarify that it does what I want it to do.

I want the forum to notify all members (I realize they have to be new members - but this isn't a problem as its a new forum); of all activity by daily digest - regardless as to whether they have posted in the thread. I.e if someone is completely inactive in posting on the forums they will get a digest of what is happening.

Have other users had success in using this mod to achieve the same ends.

Best Regards

Richard Pearce (Changes Mental Health Charity)

I'm not sure if it does what you want. This mod will allow you to specify one or more forum ids, and newly registering users will be subscribed to that forum. I'm not sure if it's what you want because when you say "new forum" do you mean that your entire vbulletin site is new? And you mention posting in a thread, but this works by forum (vbulletin's idea of a forum or sub-forum, as you see then in the forum manager). If you're creating a new site and you want to subscribe all newly registering members to one or more forums, then this should do what you want. (I actually am not sure if subscribing to a forum subscribes you to all subforums or not).

If you think this is what you're trying to do but it's not working, let me know.

tagged, interesting mod.

Hi thanks for your reply. It encourages me that I will be able to our forum to function for the Charity.

It would be useful to see if there are any active public forums that I might subscribe to that use this mod, just so I can see it working.

Best Regards

Richard

Any word on it working for 4.1.7?

does it works also for childforum?

No, it subscribes to exactly the forums you list. It might be possible to allow child forums as an option somehow, but then if you were to add a child forum later it wouldn't automatically be subscribed, so I thought that might be more confusing.

Adding the child forum would be helpful. I would be happy using this function even if I had to re-run it somehow to capture new(er) child forums not present when it was initially set up.

I'll consider it for a future release.

Hi kh99 -

While you're thinking about future releases, would you consider linking this with secondary usergroups, so when a user joins a usergroup, either by him/herself, or by an admin, they are then automatically subscribed to forums that the admin has associated with that usergroup?

For example, in a car forum, if a user adds himself to the group "Buicks", then he would automatically be subscribed to the GM forum, since the admin had made that group/forum connection using your mod.

First, thank you for this mod and php script. It worked well for my community.

Is there a script that can be used to unsubscribe everyone from a single forum or multiple forums?

Thanks!

You can do a one-time unsubscribing from one or more forums by executing an sql query like:


You'd change (1, 2, 3) to the list you want to unsubscribe users from. Also, if you have a table prefix you'd have to add it before subscribeforum.

As always, be very careful when you modify the database. It would be wise to make sure you have a recent backup before you do anything.

Thanks. Worked perfectly.

Hi - I have tried implementing this mod - everything seems to have gone OK - I selected the form ID, Selected daily digest and then added a new user - I logged in as them and checked the forum - but it wasn't subscribed - Have people found that this works with VBulliten 4.2 - or can anyone think of anything I have missed.

Any suggestions gratefully recieved.

I have to admit I've been lax in testing this when new versions of vb were released, [S]and in fact it seems like it doesn't work with vb4.2.0. I'll look in to it and release an update as soon as I figure it out.[/S]

I spoke too soon - it does seem to work with vb4.2.0.

When you say you added a user, did you go through registration or the adminCP? This mod will only work if you go through the registration page, and if you have "Verify Email address in Registration" set to yes, then the user won't be subscribed until they click on the verification link.

Does this subscribe "new users" or can I specify it to a different usergroup as well/instead?

As far as legality....

When users register they agree to the terms, just add it in the terms of service

"You acknowledge that you may be auto subscribed to certain forums"

Done...

I'm not sure what you're asking. It doesn't have anything to do with usergroups really. What it does is, when a new user registers it automatically adds a subscription for them.

This is exactly what we need except that we need it instant email notifications and not only once a day. We have only about 400 users and our board is internal. Our company has an internal policy that all users must be notified of EVERY single new thread started and ANY updates to every thread thereafter. If the users wants to Opt-out, he can by clicking an "unsubscribe" link. But this only sends out the notifications once a day or once a week. We need it to be instant.

Is there a way to modify this addon to do just that?

Unfortunately there's no easy way to modify this addon to do that, because "instant email" isn't one of the choices when a user subscribes to a forum. I think you'd need to do something like create a plugin that runs when a thread is created and adds a subscription to that thread for every user in the database (or maybe every user who belongs to a certain user group).

Ok! Thanks for the reply...

Yes, a plugin would be needed then but the group option sounds perfect! I could just add all the users to a group but now to find someone to build the plugin :(

Hi,
I know this thread is quite old, but maybe it comes back to life... For letting users choose "instant email notification" on forum subscriptions, I use this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248617
But users still have to subscribe to every single forum manually.

When using this addon and your addon at the same time, could it be possible to modify your addon so "instant email notification" would be available for automatic forum subscriptions as well? Or is it still the same problem concerning instant email notification you mentioned above?

Thanks for your help
Sam

OK, I'm attaching a version of the xml that just adds "Instant Email Notification" to the list of options for this mod. I looked at that other mod and it looks like if you have that installed and you choose "Instant Email Notification" in the options for this mod, users should get instant email notification of new threads (but I haven't tried it). You should just need to install this and choose "Overwrite" when installing.

Just to be clear (for everyone else), if you do not have this mod installed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248617 and you choose "Instant Email Notification", the users won't get any notification of new threads.

Thanks for your quick reply! I tested it on vb 4.2.2 and it seems to work. Also the update script for existing users works for me, choosing "1", which seems to be the value for instant email notification in your update, for notification method.
After hours of research how to solve this problem of combining autosubscribe and instant email notification you really made my day!!!

One last question, is there a way to notify users about replies without them having to subscribe manually to the thread?

nice move