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Originally Posted by CarCdr

I had to rework that area myself just after we installed vB. Understand that we run a corporate site where we might add only one user per week (after the initial load). Anyway, the main thing we wanted was to issue the welcome to the last N users rather than simple the last user to be registered. Here is what that looks like in index.php:

// get newest members
$homepage_ShowNewMembersMaxCount = 3;         // show this many new members
$homepage_ShowNewMembersDaysCutoff = 7;       // no longer new after this many days
$homepage_ShowNewMembersExclGroups = '3,4';   // never show users from these groups

$dateCutoffTmp = TIMENOW - ($homepage_ShowNewMembersDaysCutoff * 86400);
$membersNew = $DB_site->query("
          SELECT username
          FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user
          WHERE joindate > $dateCutoffTmp
             AND usergroupid NOT IN ($homepage_ShowNewMembersExclGroups)
          ORDER BY joindate DESC
          LIMIT $homepage_ShowNewMembersMaxCount");

// If we did not get any, $newusernames will be empty and HTML template won't show it
// because '<if condition="$newusernames">' will be false.
$newusernames = '';
while ($newMember = $DB_site->fetch_array($membersNew)) {
	$newusernames .= (empty($newusernames)? '': ', ') . $newMember['username'];
}
$DB_site->free_result($membersNew);

This approach requires modifying the FORUMHOME template.

To adapt it to your simpler needs, try this code:

Find these lines in index.php:

$newusername = $userstats['newusername'];
$newuserid = $userstats['newuserid'];

Comment-out these lines (begin line with //) and replace with:

     $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'];

Just change the '(3,4)' to the list of usergroups to ignore.

Works like a charm, Thanks!