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&

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by 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.

Just found this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82693

I know that you know much more about coding than me (actually, almost everyone knows more about coding than me ), but it looks like parsing problem to me. Anyway, if this link helps you in any way, great. If not, I hope you'll find a way to sort things out. :up:

[ozzy47]

It may help, but I don't think so, I believe what needs to be done is when you mention someone in a post, what ever AUT writes into the mods tables, needs to be done with this mod also. So I need to go through what tables Fillip updates, and add that to the posting hook of this mod.

[Alan_SP]

Well, can you execute your mod in a way that you send text to later parsing, what will activate AUT (or whatever mod for that reason) and it will parse text as if it was posted by user?

Also, I wrote it before, even if you quote text made by your mod, mentioning doesn't work, which looks strange to me, like this text isn't same as if it was produced by human (regular user).

There's something strange with this.

Try to quote text, parsing should work all right with quoted text, but it doesn't.

[ozzy47]

As I stated earlier, I got it to show correctly.
Now the issue come in with integrating it into the AUT mod, updating the DB with the same info as if you were making a post in the front end like normal. The way any auto posting mod works, is it inserts the post info directly into the DB, thus bypassing any mod that runs on a new post, so if you want something added to it, you have to update whatever you want when it inserts it's info.

[Alan_SP]

I thought it's possible to mimic real human actions somehow with mod.

Anyway, you know better than me.

Did you managed to replicate bug with multiple threads created when you use invalid email confirmation link?

[ozzy47]

I have not got to that yet, I will have to test it out on my dev site, don't want to blow up the live one.

[Alan_SP]

Actually, it safe, it only produce empty threads (without username, but with rest of welcome text), i.e. it triggers only your mod. But yes, test it in environment where you can spot what goes wrong and how to correct it. :up:

[CUBS]

This nis a great MOD

[ozzy47]

Thanks, don't forget to mark as installed.

[CoZmicShReddeR]

I was still using the older version like this one just happened to notice Ozzy made a new one!

Thanks for keeping stuff like this alive it really makes hosting a website that much more enjoyable!