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&

[dizzynation]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

What details?

The information they entered during registration

[ozzy47]

Some of that might be private though, I don't see a need to post that out to the whole community.

[whoareyou82605]

Perfect--- Installed and set up in 5minutes.

[ozzy47]

Thanks, glad ya like it, and thanks for marking as installed.

[dizzynation]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Some of that might be private though, I don't see a need to post that out to the whole community.

Ozzy, I love your mods, I really do but expand your train of thought, not everyone uses VB the way you think.

This would be a perfect mod from one of my clients that uses VB only as a DB and not for forum use. There are many mods here that some would think are ridiculous, but there are many different uses for VB then one would imagine.

[ozzy47]

The problem is I would have to know the exact fields that are filled out during registration. If you add some extra fields, they need to be taken into consideration. I have seen sites that have upwards of 15 extra fields, so I would have to know each one.

Sure it probably could be coded to auto read them, but would it not be easier to get a mod that would read the info from the DB, then display it in a table?

[w00fy]

Installed and working very well!

Thank you.

[ozzy47]

Glad ya like it, and thanks for marking as installed.

[ozzy47]

Seems it is not going to be as easy to implement the DBTech's AUT mod as I thought it was. I can get it to show up in the post correctly, but the user gets no notification of the mention, nor does it show up in either members profile.

So I am going to have to put this on the shelf for a bit till I can really dig into the code to figure out a way to make it compatible.

[Alan_SP]

I hope you'll find a way to achieve this. :up:

And yes, it would be great if multiple threads would be solved somehow. It could be moderated after they are created, but in a way it beats the purpose of having mod to automatically create welcome threads, when you need constantly keep an eye on it. I know it's hard to reproduce, but something creates these multiple threads.

EDIT: I found out how to reproduce multiple threads. Actually it's very easy, at least on my site.

Register test user, have in settings that threads is created after email confirmation and when you receive email, don't use correct email confirmation link, use one that's incomplete. For example:

This is correct link for my test users:

http://slobodni.net/register.php?a=act&u=11103&i=53830d59e7f7608d8259b73d8fc0940bb2f65868

It's enough just to "shave off" a bit of code at the end, like this:

http://slobodni.net/register.php?a=act&u=11103&i=53830d59e7f76

Using link like this will produce multiple threads creation. It usually produced two threads, but in one occasion (yes, I tried it multiple times, it triggered multiple threads constantly) it produced three.

Also, you can use link for manual activation, by using this link:
http://slobodni.net/register.php?a=ver

Just don't use correct email activation code and you'll have multiple threads. Actually, it seems that if you click very fast on the button after you try to enter code, you get as many multiple threads as many times you clicked on the button. Didn't checked out this thoroughly though, but you can certainly get multiple threads this way also.

Please try testing on your site, I hope you'll have same results and I hope you could solve this problem somehow. I'll change email message, enter more info for users, but they usually don't read instructions, as I see that error message they receive after this is actually acurate, but to no avail.