Ok. I have edited PPN's new member in a forum hack to welcome someone into any forum on your board.
Basically if you want to welcome a member and have your current members welcome them this is the hack for you.
Check out the text file it has all you need to do it.
Thanks to PPN for the majority of this hack! 99% of the credit goes to him.
You can see it in action here:
http://www.lotronline.com/forums/for...p?s=&forumid=3
Comments and questions are appreciated!

oh sweet, this is awesome.

I'm going to add it to my Newbie forum right away.

Another demo for people thinking about installing:

http://www.teenagedweb.com/forumdisp...p?s=&forumid=8
http://www.teenagedweb.com/showthrea...=2918#post2918

(Teenaged Web is the auto poster)

I recommend to people thinking of installing.

Glad you like it

Installed and working, thanks OldManWillow.

I used my default board username to send the autopost, then modified the code in register.php to change its userid from 0 to what it actually is. Now, instead of showing up as a guest and not being able to view its profile, you can view its profile and it shows up as a user.

I've one small bug for you:

When you use vbcode, in specific the [url] code, in the welcome_newuser template, you get a parsing error when you register and nothing but a title in the post. I believe this is with all vbcode, but it's only been tested with the url.

Otherwise, great idea and it works great!

thanks man! I like the user idea I am gonna do that

I requested this hack quite a while ago, nice one.
I haven't installed it yet but the instructions seem a bit vague, is it posible to elaborate on setting it to post in certain forums other than a set one etc..
Thanks BB

It is all in the instructions that PPN wrote. You just need to set the forum id to whatever. In the admin panel under user registrations there is a spot where you edit which forum it goes into. Pick one and enjoy!

Cool sorted now I just skipped through it a bit fast and missed it.
All working now :D

: ) hope you like it!

i'd like to know what script changes to make to show an actual member instead of the auto poster and also how to link to the new members profile, pm & email in the template