Custom Usergroup on Registration (via e-mail address).

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This is a little custom hack originally written for Aeroguy.

This hack allows you to assign a custom usergroup that any users who match a given list of e-mail addresses (or part addresses) will be put into when they confirm their registration - users who are not matched will be still go into the default group (2).

Obviously you must be using e-mail confirmation of registrations for this to work.

Unzip the xml file and import it into vbulletin via the product manager.


History:

v1.01 : First Release.
v1.02 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[soapd]

Just came across this thread. It looks like it does exactly what I need... almost. I'm new to vBulletin - does anyone know how to tweak this so that users get added to additional usergroups instead of moved to a different primary one?

I assume this could be changed by editing this part:

$user['usergroupid'] = $vbulletin->options['creggroup'];
		$userdata->set('usergroupid', $user['usergroupid']);
		$userdata->set_usertitle(
			$user['customtitle'] ? $user['usertitle'] : '',
			false,
			$display_usergroup,
			($user_usergroup['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canusecustomtitle']) ? true : false,
			($user_usergroup['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['cancontrolpanel']) ? true : false
		);

I'm just not familiar enough with vB yet; I assume it could simply be about using a different key/parameter instead of "usergroupid" in the first couple of lines.

I'd appreciate any help or input!



@AshenTemper / case-sensitive issues...

While a vB newbie, I do know PHP, and you could achieve case-insensitivity by editing the code a tiny bit. Open the XML file in a text editor (e.g. Notepad, not Word) and look at like 30 that contains the following:

if (substr($cruser['email'],strlen($cremail)*-1) == $cremail)

Replace this line with the following:

if (strtolower(substr($cruser['email'],strlen($cremail)*-1)) == strtolower($cremail))

What this will do is turn ANY capital letter into lowercase on both ends before comparing the two - i.e. both the list you've entered in admin and the email the user signed up with will be converted to lowercase for comparison. I haven't tested this, but it should do the trick.

I realize that you asked this question about a year ago, but maybe this will help others down the road.

[soapd]

Following up on my own question above about adding users to a secondary usergroup instead of moving them to a different primary one:

I found the solution and modified the code of the plugin - it works perfectly. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can upload the modified XML here.