[Mungky]

I would love some help with this, too.

There was a hack available to restrict the selection of the "newest member" to certain usergroups; I had it installed on an earlier version of vB, but it doesn't seem to work with the current version.

I believe this is the code from the previous hack:

PHP Code:

 $newuser = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT userid, username
                                  FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user
                                  WHERE usergroupid NOT IN (3,4)
                                  ORDER BY userid DESC
                                  LIMIT 1");
     $newuserid = $newuser['userid'];        // set template variables
     $newusername = $newuser['username']; 


I tried substituting the above for the following in the index.php file, which I believe is the equivalent of where it worked in previous versions of vB:

PHP Code:

$newusername = $vbulletin->userstats['newusername'];
$newuserid = $vbulletin->userstats['newuserid']; 


However, this gave a fatal error; there are some differences between the coding styles in the old vs. newer versions of vB, but unfortunately I only know enough about PHP to do very low-level tweaks to suit my forum's needs.

If anybody who knows their way around these things could help out, it would be much appreciated!

EDITED TO ADD: I am using 3.6.4.