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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps me know how many people are using my work, giving me extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

I appreciate the support!
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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&

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Ok good stuff Ozzy ! ...works good now ...Quick question ... if I change all the instances in the new XML file of $username to $musername will that be enough to get the HTML markup of the usergroups?

It should be, but to be honest, I never tried musername.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

It should be, but to be honest, I never tried musername.

LOL! ... well isn't musername what is used in place of username to spit out the markup? Or do you mean you didn't try it on this mod? ....

[CAG CheechDogg]

Actually Ozzy...nm my Man ... it would be pointless to even add the markup since they don't belong to any other group except the default registered users group ...lol... wtf am I thinking! lol..

Thanks Ozzy the mod works fine my Man !!!

[ozzy47]

Yeah that's probably why I never tried it.

Glad it is all good now.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Yes ... A OH KAY ! :up:

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

I am unable to replicate this on my dev site, maybe you can PM me a admin account, and I can try and replicate it on your site.

Do you use email confirmation and create welcome thread only when email is confirmed? That's the part of the code that creates this problem.

If you create thread immediately when user registers, you wouldn't have this type of problem.

Just set it to create thread when user confirms email, it would get triggered for old users changing their email addresses and confirming them.

[ozzy47]

Ok gotcha, I will look into a work around for this.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

Do you use email confirmation and create welcome thread only when email is confirmed? That's the part of the code that creates this problem.

If you create thread immediately when user registers, you wouldn't have this type of problem.

Just set it to create thread when user confirms email, it would get triggered for old users changing their email addresses and confirming them.

I see what you are saying Alan ... I have it to create thread only after they confirm emails but I have not had this problem ... I understand why it would do that though as it is confirming a new email address and like you said it triggers the new thread creation ...

[Alan_SP]

Yes, this is a bit rare, as old users don't often change their old email addresses. So it need a bit of luck to be spotted, so to say.

[mitch84]

when a new welcome thread is create, the member's name can be clicked in the topic, which refers to their profile? thx