Timed Redirect - Donations Page Reminder

A friend needed a plugin that would allow them to redirect users when a time had elapsed, so that they could remind them about donations.

They had a donations page, but wanted all of their registered (non-donating) members to be redirected once a month to their donations page.

After seeing Calorie's 'Force Profile Update' plugin, I was inspired to expand on the concept.

This plugin allows you to redirect a usergroup or groups to a specific page, thread or post, after a recurring length of time you select.

Through the control panel, you can set the length of time to give them the reminder, the usergroups, the page that it redirects to, and the message.

UPDATE (1.01): You can now set the reminder to be cleared on the redirect page itself (provided its a vbulletin created page) or cleared once the reminder is viewed, so you can redirect to a non-vbulletin page. It now also checks against all possible usergroups, primary and secondary.

UPDATE (1.02): You will now be able to see stats on how many people each month have been reminded (in the control panel settings). Also, if you use a redirect URL that is non-standard to your vbulletin site (IE: Instead of using donations.php, you use: http://www.anothersite.com/donations.html) this is now possible.) Also, all primary and secondary groups will work if you add them to the list.

I'll be around to support it if you have any questions.

Ridley...

[Gripemaster]

Very interesting... I have been looking for something exactly like this. Here's why:
I have created a survey for my forum using VB Survey. I have alot of lurkers and zero posters on my forum, and want to get them more involved in the community. Is there a way of redirecting them to the survey page, and then "clearing" them to not be redirected after they have taken the survey? This would be IDEAL for my forum if that were possible.

[username12]

Another suggestion I would have is to make it wait on new members. I don't wanna hit them up for a donation right away.

Edit: Though I suppose I could do this with promotions.

[Carly]

Great plugin!! The first 12 hours of having this installed, and I got slammed with donations, mostly from those who never really looked around at all of the links! I was looking for a non-pushy, polite way to remind members of the option, and this is perfect!!

[ridley_1969]

Ok, thanks for all the great ideas, I'm starting to see where this is going.

From how I see the requests, the plugin will probably evolve into something that allows you to check status for users, based on various conditions or criteria, then redirects them, and sets a flag based on either time, or completion. So that they can be reminded, or they are now complete.

This will definitely take some time, as I need to make this a lot more robust, as well as non-processor intensive.

Thanks for all the ideas.

Marcus/Ridley

[Hostboard]

I think this is a great idea just think it could use a few things :nervous:

1. Countdown timer to redirect back to the last page the user was at (configurable in the ACP).
2. Link next to donat link to allow user to click to return to the page they were last at.
3. Ability to show to user ever the "nag" page every hour, day, week, month if they have not donated (ACP configurable)

[goodwillstacy]

will this work with 3.6?
thanks!
stacy

[SCRIPT3R]

updated for 3.6.x here.

[jyajay]

I just installed and tested this hack with version 3.6.2 and it is working without any problems.

[jyajay]

Is it possible to reset the status of redirection if you want the users to be redirected before the time period is over?


I did reset the status now manually, maybe you can add this to the AdminCP:

UPDATE user SET metimedredir = '0';

[blackdirector]

I installed this mod...works great... I am directing people to a website for info but now users cannot register to join my site when this is active. Anyone know what is going on.