Miscellaneous Hacks - VSa - Auto Reply

Info:
I'm using this to automatically welcome users in my "Introductions" sub-forum. You can customize messages and use it for any other auto-replying needs. You can write several messages (separated by |) and they will be used randomly in auto-replies. This work with subjects too. There are three different Sets of subjects/messages to use in different forums. You can set product to not reply to threads started by listed members, turn on/off signatures, etc... View screenshots for details about features...

To get this working don't forget to:
-Set forum id(s) in product options
-Set poster id(s) in product options

Otherwise it will not work or you'll get error messages.

Note:
-This executes 1 simple query on forumdisplay in selected forums only.
-Same simple query is executed on getnew-search.

Installation:
-Import XML file (as product) through AdminCP: Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

To set options:
Go to: vBulletin Options > VSa - Auto Reply

Versions:
v1.0 - Aug 25. 2007.
-Initial release
v1.1 - May 03. 2008.
-Compatible with vBulletin 3.7
-Minor bugs fixed
v1.2 - Apr 24. 2009.
-Latest 3.x version
v2.0 - Feb 17. 2010.
-Updated for vBulletin 4

[whyiteasy]

does it works on 4.1.1 ?

[smirkley]

yes confirmed 4.1.1

[tidus78]

Cool

[LoudBox]

Great stuff

How to exclude certain usergroups from getting an autoreply? For example: junior member would get an auto reply, but senior members not. I guess it's simply adding an exclude based on usergroups somewhere? Right now there's only an exclude based on userid which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

So how could the code be changed to add an exclude based on group?

Thanks!

[profanitytalker]

How did you guys get this to work? It doesn't seem to be working on any of the 4 versions.

[StudentCreche]

Hmm, user post count does NOT go up and does not show new reply on forumhome...

[downloadfound]

It works for me, except not as I need it to.

I'm running a custom script that creates threads as apart of the script.

I have the threadthumbails add-on and with this nifty script it creates all the thumbs that failed to when the script created threads. I wonder if someone can do something similar for this script so I can run it and auto reply to all unanswered threads?

PHP Code:

<?php $STEP_AMOUNT = 20000; ?>

<input type="button" id="btnNext" value="Process Next Results" onClick="window.location='?start='+(<?php echo $_GET["start"]; ?>+<?php echo $STEP_AMOUNT;?>)" disabled=true><br>
The button above should enable once this batch is complete!<br>
<br>

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~8192);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);
define('NOCOOKIES', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'xupdate');
define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);

// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');

if (!$_GET["start"]) { $_GET["start"] = 0; }


        $threads = $db->query_read_slave("
        SELECT *
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
        LIMIT ".$db->escape_string($_GET["start"]).",". $db->escape_string($STEP_AMOUNT));

while ($thread = $db->fetch_array($threads)){


    $posts = $db->query_read_slave("SELECT * FROM `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "post` WHERE `postid` = '".$thread["firstpostid"]."'");
    $post = $db->fetch_array($posts);

preg_match('/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/i',$post["pagetext"],$matches);
$query = "UPDATE `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread` set `thumbnailurl` = '".$db->escape_string($matches[1])."' WHERE threadid = " . $thread["threadid"];

$db->query_write($query);

}
?>

<script> document.getElementById("btnNext").disabled = false;

</script>

[Dozer826]

Not working for me on 4.1.2. All the setting are correct but no reply comes. I've tested it with different time lengths and still nothing.

Anyone have this prob on 4.1.2 and find a fix?

[profanitytalker]

Yes please someone fix this.

[graham_w]

This mod is working fine for me on 4.1.4