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&

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok so a few hours later and I still got 3 new threads with no name ...1 from google and another one from some random IP ....

[ozzy47]

Crap, ok then that did not help.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Lol...Maybe the robots.txt didn't get updated in time for the robots to get the update of the change? .....

I haven't had any new threads with no names since I last posted this, that's why I am hoping that it took time for the bots to notice the change...

[ozzy47]

Possible, I am waiting to figure out a fix for this. If there was another hook that vBulletin had available it would be no problem, but they don't have the right hook available.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Can't we create hooks ourselves?

[ozzy47]

Yeah you can, but then that would require a file edit, and I don't like users editing vBulletin files to add stuff. I am wanting to see if any of the users here have a valid vbulletin-germany.org account, there may be a potential fix in a similar mod there.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Sweet ...thanks ozzy

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Possible, I am waiting to figure out a fix for this. If there was another hook that vBulletin had available it would be no problem, but they don't have the right hook available.

I was thinking about this and maybe I have valid solution.

These multiple threads I call "empty", as they don't have username in them. Maybe if you could check username variable, if it's empty, you don't do anything, but if it contains something (actual user name most likely), you go and create new thread.

With this check I think you'll avoid creating multiple "emtpy" threads and I think it's not too hard to code it.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

I was thinking about this and maybe I have valid solution.

These multiple threads I call "empty", as they don't have username in them. Maybe if you could check username variable, if it's empty, you don't do anything, but if it contains something (actual user name most likely), you go and create new thread.

With this check I think you'll avoid creating multiple "emtpy" threads and I think it's not too hard to code it.

Try out the attached XML, and lets see if that stops the blank threads. Let me know when you downloaded it so I can remove it.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok ozzy, I downloaded and installed it....I will let you know if I get anymore empty name threads my Man ..thanks a lot !