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?