Automatic Welcome PM

Automatic Welcome PM
This Hack will automatically send welcome PMs to new members.
Message Title and Body are Phrases (Varname welcomepm in Phrasegroups EMail Subject Text and eMail Body Text), so you can have Messages in different languages.
You can also specify which User should appear as Sender in vBulletin Options / User Registration Options).

Details
1 Product XML

Contributions
German Language Pack by [name]Metro Man[/name]

History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.1
Updated for RC1

1.0.2
Added direct links to the Phrases in vBulletion Options / User Registration Options to make it easier to change the Text.

1.0.3
Fixed a slight Problem that caused PMs not being send under certain conditions

1.0.4
Fixed a Bug that caused PMs not being send on upgraded vBulletin installations.

FAQ

1. Q: How to I set/change the sender?
   A: Go to ACP / vBulletin Options / vBulletin Options / User Registration Options.
   On the bottom, you will find an input box for the userid that should appear as the sender.
2. Q: How to I change the message title/body?
   A: Go to ACP / vBulletin Options / vBulletin Options / User Registration Options.
   On the bottom, you will find an input box for the userid that should appear as the sender.
   In the description text for this input box, there are links for changing the text.
3. Q: When I try to install this, I get "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php on line xxx".
   What am I doing wrong?
   A: You are trying to import the XML as a Plugin which is wrong. It must be imported as a Product (ACP / Plugin System / Manage Products).
4. Q: Why does this Hack not work?
   A: Although it is possible that you have discovered a new Bug that causes it not to work, it is more likely that you have made an installation/configuration/customization mistake.
   Before asking for support, please check:
   - Did you enter the Userid of the Sender?
   - Does the sender have permission to use PMs?
   - Does Usergroup registered have permission to use PMs?
   - Are you using the original Phrases?

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

Important Notice
This Hack is not designed nor necessary for vBulletin 3.6.
Do not install it on vBulletin 3.6 if you don't want to run into problems.
You should uninstall this Hack before upgrading to vBulletin 3.6

[quanvo81]

Originally Posted by Andreas

I wonder where there are edits?
And I even wonder more why people enter a username when they are clearly asked to enter a userid?
And where did you find a XML plugin file when this hack does not have one?

DOH stupid me
it is user ID, not NAME
Solved
Thanks Andreas

[kahethu]

Andreas,
For some reason I got 5 identical PMs when I did a test signup.

Any idea what I could have done wrong?

Awesome tool!
Simon

[Mikecp421]

nice thanks!

[captainslater]

I want to have the $username - string in the title of the pm, but that doesn't work.

Any ideas?

[descds]

Mmm ok this is baffling.

We recently did a fresh install of Vbulletin 3.5.3 and then started to add our hacks. However although we managed to get the Welcome PM hack working happily on Vbulletun 3.5.2 on another of our sites its now refusing to send out to any PMS in 3.5.3.

We have the userid to send the pms set to 1 (and i've double checked it). I've updated the phrase (same as the one we used before) and we go through the entire registration process (not adding to the user control panel) with either email validation on or off. Groups are able to recieve PM's in either registered or awaiting email verification groups.

Vbulletin accepts the user and everything works as it should but the welcome PM will not send.

I tried serveral times to upload the plugin and even used the over write function but nothing seems to be making any difference.

I see the plugin is active and the 3 plugins running happily in the plugin manager but no matter what i do i cannot get this thing to fire in a vbulletin 3.5.3 fresh install. Ironically its still running on 3.5.2 on one of my other sites with no problems whatsoever.

So does this not work properly on vbulletin 3.5.3 ? Maybe users who upgrade can get it to work but fresh installs cannot ?

We only have 2 other hacks installed and 1 is the welcome headers and the other "visitors who have come to the site in the last X hours" so i'm convinced its neither of these causing the issue .. The welcome headers is working on our other site so i know for sure it isn't that one ...

Any advice would really be helpful ..

[Andreas]

Make sure you have entered a correct userid (!)
Make sure your phrases are correct (delete all translations, uninstall this hack, install it again)
Disable all other plugins/products.
If it still does not work, send me a PM with an ACP login.

[descds]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Make sure you have entered a correct userid (!)
Make sure your phrases are correct (delete all translations, uninstall this hack, install it again)
Disable all other plugins/products.
If it still does not work, send me a PM with an ACP login.

Hi there tried all you said and it worked .. So it got me problem solving. And low and behold it turned out i had a 5000 character limit in posting PM's so anyone that doesn't recieve a PM and you've, well, been kinda "in-depth" with your welcome pm, make sure you check you can post that message size with going into Private Messaging Options > and setting up your Maximum Characters Per Private Message (0 to disable) as vbulletin default was 5000.

And Andreas many many thanks for offerinf to help with this via PM, shows how commited you are. Awessome hack and so very glad i have it running again as my users love it ...

Well done

[RFViet]

It's good if we can have Automatic welcome thread !!

[Snake]

There's one already...

[Andreas]

There are Hacks that do this.
Though, I wouldn't use a Welcome Thread-Hack on my board ... would be really annoying having 80-100 "Welcome User xyz"-Threads every day