Profile Enhancements - Automatic Profile Commenter

Automatic Profile Commenter
By: whitemike
White-Projects

What this does?

This will add a new profile comment to every newly registered member.

How to Install/Configure?

1. Import the product through vbulletin product manager.
2. vBulletin Options->Automatic Profile Commenter and configure
3. That is it!

Hack options?

1. Master Enable/Disable
2. UserID to send comment from
3. Message that you want in the welcome profile message (BBCode Allowed).
   1. You can now use the following
      • {username} - username of the newly registered user
      • {sitename} - name of your forums
      • {siteurl} - URL to your forums.

New Features?

1. 1.2 - Allows the use of variables to pull your website name
2. 1.1 - Allows the use of smilies

Please click INSTALL if you like and use.

[Keesa]

You just made my life.

[yotsume]

EDIT: Error SOLVED

I installed this on my vb3.7x site and i set everything up. I made one edit to the product file before I installed so that the profile message would only go out to new users that confirmed their email address.

I was able to register fine but I received the following database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.4:

Invalid SQL:

                                INSERT INTO vb_attachmentviewslog (attachmentid, userid, dateline)
                                VALUES (146, 203, 1249125999);

MySQL Error   : Duplicate entry '146-203' for key 1
Error Number  : 1062
Request Date  : Saturday, August 1st 2009 @ 07:26:39 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, August 1st 2009 @ 07:26:41 AM
Script        : http://www.mysite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146
Referrer      : http://www.mysite.com/
IP Address    : xxxxxxxx
Username      : xxxxxxxxx
Classname     : vB_Database

So how can I fix this? The edit I did to change the hook location was: <hookname>register_activate_process</hookname>

EDIT: I solved my database error by changing the suggested hook edit in a previous post back to defalt. The mod now worked perfectly and my new user has a great new automated welcome message!

THANKS FOR THIS!

[Verionia]

Doesnt work for me - users are registered through joomla bridge, not vbulletin... can u make a fix? Ty.

[Michael Biddle]

I do not know how the Joomla bridge works, if you could give me more details I can look into it.

[multiplex]

hello Michael Biddle,

i think i found a bug. i am running bv3.8.3 and i should mention have enabled email confirmation feature in vboptioins-->user registration options-->Verify Email address in Registration-->YES

i also should mention i created 3 test accounts to test your hack out. i went through all the steps to register normally - i.e. not trough admin CP

so what is happening is this...

user registers...
user has to verify there email...
i go to my email and click on the verify account link provided...
i am then given a message that my account is verified but i am put into a cue to have my account moderated by an admin. i.e. i am put in the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation Usergroup...
but in my user registration options the Moderate New Members option is set to NO

i had to disable this cause i dont want members to have to wait to be added to an active usergroup

can you please test this out. i wonder if others have noticed this. thanks

i should also mention i have Send Welcome Email feature enabled (also found in user registration options). normally, when a user registers and activates there account, a PM is sent. but when i installed this hack, the PM was NOT sent because i was put into the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation Usergroup which can not accept PMs by default. but the visitor message did go through

marked as installed*

[Ava-Kyrillos]

Thanks a lot

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

I do not know how the Joomla bridge works, if you could give me more details I can look into it.

users will register through joomla first, then they are automatically added to vbulletin user database as a new register... don't know if this mod will still work?

[sebaldus]

Thanks a lot for a great Hack, Michael..
Regards from Sebaldus..:up:

[helmica]

hi,
i need to upgrade to vb4 are Automatic Profile Commenteris ok by vb4?

thanks in advance for you help

[Michael Biddle]

This mod will work on vb4.