Testing for user never posted?

[JamesAB]

Originally Posted by squidsk

None of those will actually work, since in theory a user could have posted and have had all their posts hard deleted in which case no record of any posts will exist. Short of changing the db by adding a field to user which is a boolean that gets set when they first make a post.

Okay. How about when a new user is created? What is the initial value of $vbulletin->userinfo['lastpost'] ?

And what would be the value of $vbulletin->userinfo['lastpost'] after a user's posts have been hard deleted?

Maybe I can find a compromise that would work.

Thanks,
James

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Okay. I did some testing and found something that should work for me.

When a user firsts posts the value for $vbulletin->userinfo['lastpost'] changes from '0' to a unix timestamp. Even if that post gets hard deleted, the value of $vbulletin->userinfo['lastpost'] will not revert to '0'. It stays set to the last updated unix timestamp.

This seems to be an option for testing if a user has never posted:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['lastpost'] < 1) 


It works for me.