Automatically Start a Welcome Thread in the Forum of Your Choice

This little mod will start a new thread in the forum of your choice when somebody registers.

The thread message is contained in a template, and easily customizeable on your part.

This version posts the thread when the user registers - but before he activates his email address.

Thanks to flypaper for providing a bugfix.

Installation Instructions: Import the product. Change the welcome_thread template to suit your needs. Change the setup variables in the welcome thread plugin to suit your needs.

Amy

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by PhenomLeader

I'v a question. My new thread is popping up under the username of the new member, and not the 'general staff' username I created.

In the list of threads it looks like the user has posted a thread to welcome him or herself. Once you open the thread, the username is the 'general staff' username.

I don't know where in here:


To fix that?

Should I change $username to the UserID of the 'general staff' that I want to use ?

When you use $username that calls the username of the person who just registered since a variable cant logically have 2 answers you must either

a: create a new variable similar to $username and insert it into the coding structure of the forum (this gets complicated i wouldnt try it)

or B: make $username the UserName of the Staff member who you want to welcome people

[y2krazy]

Could this maybe be substituted by a multi-line textbox on the registration page for a user to type in the actual post? That would be very nice to have.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

so...after 19 pages of posts, is there a clear working version of this at all??

for 3.5 or 3.6???

[bada_bing]

How do you choose which forum and what the welomce thead says? Would be nice if there was a nice menu in admincp for this.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

so...after 19 pages of posts, is there a clear working version of this at all??

for 3.5 or 3.6???

Simple answer is yes, its working with vB 3.6
I had it installed on my vB 3.5 and updated the board to vB 3.6
The hack is still working fine as you can see here
http://www.clanforums.com/forum/intr...html#post80338

[Gizmo5h1t3]

rofl...i threw in 3.6 as a postscript, its 3.5 im bothered about mate.....

and it seems its NOT working correctly with that version...

after the original post, there seems to be soooooo many conflicting posts about what code to use, and theres been no definitive answer from the author as yet....or an edited instruction set with the correct code to use...

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

rofl...i threw in 3.6 as a postscript, its 3.5 im bothered

Well its written for 3.5 and I used it also in that version.
Whats not working for you?

[upsetter]

is there something like this for 3.6.0 ?... would realy appriciate it...

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

rofl...i threw in 3.6 as a postscript, its 3.5 im bothered about mate.....

and it seems its NOT working correctly with that version...

after the original post, there seems to be soooooo many conflicting posts about what code to use, and theres been no definitive answer from the author as yet....or an edited instruction set with the correct code to use...

go back a page and read my edits they work regardless of what version of 3.5 or 3.6 you have they have both

[Gizmo5h1t3]

used lil7rocket `s edited xml, and it works fine on 3.5....thanks