Introduction Threads
 

YO! :D

I am just working on my forum now and I am sick of having people posting introductions that simply consist of "Hi!" and with varying and untidy thread titles, so....

I was wondering if someone could knock the following up for me. Basically what I would like to do is make it so that the intro's forum is different from the others. You would click on "New Thread" where you would be presented with a form. No subject box as that would be constant for all the intro's, something you could change in the CP maybe. Then they type in their personal hi message, and along with that details from their profile are pulled up and entered into the thread when they submit.

Anyone up for trying this?

Oh and I would really like the thread title to be something like :

$username's Introduction

I am fairly new at php, but me and a friend shall try and have a go...

If we dont reply, its because weve either killed each other in fury, or because someone else does;)

Satan

lol - Thanks :)

not tested but should work:

1- Edit newthread.php, find
-- cut --
$subject=censortext($subject);
-- cut --

2- After that ADD:

-- cut --
if ($foruminfo[forumid]==X) {$subject="Introduction of ".$bbuserinfo['username'];}
-- cut --

Replace X with the forumid of your intro forum..

Enjoy! ;)

Logician

can u have multiple forums ?

e.g

if ($foruminfo[forumid]==3,6,9) ?

yes you can:

if (($foruminfo[forumid]==X) OR ($foruminfo[forumid]==Y) OR ($foruminfo[forumid]==Z)) {$subject="Introduction of ".$bbuserinfo['username'];}

Enjoy..

does any1 actully have a demo thread ov this seems a cool hack :D

Do you really need a demo?

Dream a forum in which subjects of all threads are in this context:
"Introduction of Logician"
"Introduction of Crazy Mofo"
"Introduction of hellsatan"
"Introduction of Matt"
etc..

;)

And what will actull post or does the user have too post?

w o w, that sure makes things interesting :p

Crazy Mofo I think you didnt get what this hack does. Please read the first message of the thread about hack's purpose.

Matt asked the standartization of message subjects in a specific forum and this is what this hack does. It changes the subject of messages if they are posted in a specific forum regardless of what user wrote for the subject field.

This has nothing to do with the message itself, so the post itself will be like others.

Hope this helps..

Logician

Thanks! :D I will check it now, how about the second bit? With it displaying their profile info in the thread underneath? ;)

My friend Ragesk813 thought of a real cool addition for this hack.
Since alot of the time introduction forums can just be full of spam, we thought of a way to regulate this.

Upon registration, you also fill out an introductory section, with fields such as title, hobbies, intro-area, etc. as mentioned above. Then when they hit submit to finish registration it auto-generates a thread in the introductory forum titled with the subject the person gave and all the info inside.

Great idea no? Please somebody do it :D

This I think would be a cool idea.

I actually thought of this before too, as an alternative to the other method. It would be a cool hack :D

It sure would be, that is why one of you great excellent god-like hackers out there have to code this! :D :D

yeah, this is a GREAT idea!

Muahahaha, it sure is!

I would just like to say that this sounds like a great hack, and I would love to have it on my forums :D

May I suggest, when a user makes a intro thread, with all their info and everything, something goes into their profile like User x's introduction there it links to the intro thread of them. But, if they haven't made a intro thread, it says something like User x is to lazy to make an introduction.

Err... um, I think thats about all I can think of :)

BTW, this will be my Hack of the Month if someone gets it out :)

Alan

Oh what a cool idea about having the link to their intro post :D

this would be an awesome hack!