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&

[ozzy47]

That is really strange, are these users actually verifying their email?

[dknelson]

Just enabled this again. Will see what it does. I've had one registration since enabling it and did not get the error.

One thing that it didn't do though. The message did not link the new users name to his profile.

[dknelson]

OK...I see where it has to be setup in the control panel. I don't fully understand it though. It says:

$username = The username of the member who joined.
$url = The base url for your site, ie: http://www.MYSITE.com
$bbtitle = The title of your site set in vboptions Site Name / URL / Contact Details

Should you want the username to link to the profile use this, [url="$url/member.php?u=$userid2"]$username[/url]

Does it pull the $URL from my board settings or do I need to enter that info. Example, would I put [url=http://mysite.com/forum/member.php? u=$useid2.........etc?

[ozzy47]

Just as it says, [url="$url/member.php?u=$userid2"]$username[/url ] when it is actually posted would be the nname of the user that joined, and clicking on that name would lead you to their profile.

It does auto pull the url of your site.

[dknelson]

Well, still getting the error. I have no idea how to fix it so I guess I'll just disable it. Sorry.

[ozzy47]

If you want me to try and debug it on your site, you could PM me admin account.

[dknelson]

Can anybody tell me how to add the new users location to the title bar.

At this time, I have it configured to say something like Please welcome our newest user, John Doe.

I would like it to add their location, Please welcome our newest user, John Doe from Texas. or wherever.

[ozzy47]

That is not available at this time. I think it would require modifying of the code, to grab the specific profile field and use it in the title.

[dknelson]

I guess I'll have to give up on this one. I have been unable to figure out what is causing this problem but it hasn't gone away I had a welcome thread mod on my 3.8.7 forum and never had an issue. I've disabled other plugins, changed it to post thread before email activation, turned off TapaTalk in app registration. I don't know what to do. Would love for this to work but it just isn't for me.

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:14:41 -0500

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.3 Beta 3:

Invalid SQL:

				UPDATE user
				SET ozzmodz_welcome_thread_welcomed = 1
 				WHERE userid =;

MySQL Error   : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 3
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Tuesday, November 11th 2014 @ 08:14:40 PM
Error Date    : Tuesday, November 11th 2014 @ 08:14:41 PM

[ozzy47]

Yeah I don't know why it is not getting the user id, with over 100 installs of this, no one else has reported the issue.