Mini Mods - [OzzModz] Welcome Thread / Post For New Users

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This is a simple mod, that will post a new thread or post, when a new user joins your site.

It can be set to post as soon as the member completes the registration process, or when they confirm their email, should you have that option set in your vBulletin settings.

It is a simple installation, upload the files in the UPLOAD folder, then import the product XML, product-ozzmodz_welcome_thread

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz] Welcome Thread / Post For New Users Settings and change the thread post titles and messages in the options, [OzzModz] Welcome Thread / Post For New Users Titles And Messages

Complete Feature List

• Ability to enable/disable the thread/post system.
• Option to create thread before or after Email activation
• Option to choose to post as a new thread or a reply to a post.
• Option to enter the ID of the person making the post.
• Option for the thread/post to count towards the posters postcount or not.
• Ability to select which forum the new thread should be posted in.
• Option to set the thread id if you choose to post as a reply to a post.
• Option to set the post id if you choose to post as a reply to a post.
• Option to set the thread as open or closed if you choose to post as a new thread.
• Option to enter which post icons to use.
• Option to set as sticky if you choose to post as a new thread.
• Ten different options to enter the thread/post title for the system to randomly use.
• Ten different options to enter the thread/post content for the system to randomly use.

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* History (Changelog) *
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v1.0.0 (December 15, 2013)
- Initial public release.
v1.1.0 (July 26, 2014)
- Added ability to link username to users profile.
v1.2.0 (September 13, 2014)
- Existing users that change their email, and confirm the new email, will no longer trigger the mod to post a thread.
- Users that sign up with names that have special characters, like this, pandora& will now show up correctly, instead of showing like this, pandora&

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by CoZmicShReddeR

Just a request: I would like to see this show their names and have it link to their new profile

Like where it says the name like this in the new post.

EXAMPLE:
Welcome CoZmicShReddeR, Glad you have joined!

I remember there was one here in the forums I used years ago that did that. I tried looking for it but cannot find it or I had it and it stopped working with VB4

Thank you CoZmic ! This would really be cool if Ozz could make this happen ....

[Alan_SP]

It would be even cooler () if it could work with mentions (DBTech AUT mod), but sadly, probably it wouldn't ever work. Linking with profiles is, on the other hand a bit easier. You just need userID supplied (like we have username supplied with $username variable), and you could construct link to users' profile fairly easy.

On the other hand, I'd like that mod checks if the user was previously registered and if was, not to create welcome thread. It looks a bit strange when users registered for years receive welcome thread.

[ozzy47]

You have seen it create threads for previously registered users?

[ozzy47]

v1.1.0 (July 26, 2014)
- Added ability to link username to users profile.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Oh this sucks Ozzy!!! I got the welcome thread without the username when I created a new test account 3 times in a row ....

[CAG CheechDogg]

Oh man Ozzy...this is not good ...I am getting Welcome Threads with no names out of no where and no new registered members are even registering .... I have had 7 phantom ones and the 4 I created myself to test this out ....HELP !!! lol

[CAG CheechDogg]

I only got one new thread to go through with the username but it wasn't linked to the profile, here is the link to that thread:

https://www.cagclan.com/community/th...er-TestDummy35!

[CAG CheechDogg]

LOL! WOAH! ok ...so for every new register I am getting 3 welcome threads, 2 without the username and one with the username but it is not linked to the profile..thats why I am getting tons of phantoms ...makes sense?

[ozzy47]

That's strange, I did not get that on my dev site. I'll look over the code in a bit and see what is going on.

[ozzy47]

Ok I fixed the no username thing, redownload and install the new XML.

I had removed some code inadvertently that caused that.