Automatically Start a Welcome Thread in the Forum of Your Choice

This little mod will start a new thread in the forum of your choice when somebody registers.

The thread message is contained in a template, and easily customizeable on your part.

This version posts the thread when the user registers - but before he activates his email address.

Thanks to flypaper for providing a bugfix.

Installation Instructions: Import the product. Change the welcome_thread template to suit your needs. Change the setup variables in the welcome thread plugin to suit your needs.

Amy

[Funkie]

Ok so why do I get the contents of the template posted everytime I get a new user instead of hi fred welcome blah

[fly]

Try changing $username to $userinfo[username]

[Electrohead04]

For all those having problems with HTML code showing, heres the solution.

Go into styles -> edit templates (for the style(s) of your choice)

You need to find the "welcome_thread" template.

Change this to a post as you would normally post one, using bbcode, etc. Then Save, and it works

[Funkie]

Originally Posted by Electrohead04

For all those having problems with HTML code showing, heres the solution.

Go into styles -> edit templates (for the style(s) of your choice)

You need to find the "welcome_thread" template.

Change this to a post as you would normally post one, using bbcode, etc. Then Save, and it works

Ta m8 I think I'll do that but how do you call the username?

[fly]

Originally Posted by Funkie

Ta m8 I think I'll do that but how do you call the username?

Looks like you'll have to add a phrase and call the phrase from the template.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by flypaper

bah, i'll try to look at it more this weekend, unless anyone has any better ideas.

This was in regards to sending the message after email verification and user moderation, if it's turned on. Just hoping you'd get a chance to look at it some more, as that's the one missing piece for many folks who'd like to use this hack. Welcoming someone before they are moderated in could lead to some nasty awkwardness on a forum.



Next question: is it possible for the welcome post/thread to include the name of the referrer? (ie: thanking them for referring the new person.)

[j1time]

I'm using it and it works great!! Thanks

[alshehi]

Thank You

alshehi

[amykhar]

You're welcome.

Amy

[fly]

Originally Posted by Tralala

This was in regards to sending the message after email verification and user moderation, if it's turned on. Just hoping you'd get a chance to look at it some more, as that's the one missing piece for many folks who'd like to use this hack. Welcoming someone before they are moderated in could lead to some nasty awkwardness on a forum.



Next question: is it possible for the welcome post/thread to include the name of the referrer? (ie: thanking them for referring the new person.)

Try this. I checked out how Andreas did his Welcome PM hack and changed this accordingly. All credit goes to Amy and Kirby (LOL). Lemme know if it works.

The referer ID is easy to get, I just can't think of how to change that to a username and I think it would require an extra SQL query anyway.

[Tralala]

Thanks so much flypaper; I've been busy traveling and didn't get a chance to see your mod till just now. I will give it a whirl and report back ASAP.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Try this. I checked out how Andreas did his Welcome PM hack and changed this accordingly. All credit goes to Amy and Kirby (LOL). Lemme know if it works.

Unfortunately this didn't work.

I previously was using your edit that allowed for a new post in a preexisting thread (instead of an entirely new thread.) So I uninstalled that one first.

Then I changed the forum number, userID and name variables accordingly on this one, just to test, installed it, and started the registration for a new user.

When the admin finally goes to moderate in the new user, however, this error comes up:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/.odell/mydir/myforumname/forums/global.php on line 22

Thanks for the effort, flypaper. I'm still very interested to see if this can be made to work. Seems like it makes a lot of sense and is a nice way to give a welcome to every new member ... so long as they are verified and moderated inside properly! (As I'm sure you know, not every board has an open-door policy, some are decidely restricted or "invite only," and the vibe is enhanced when members are greeted properly when they finally are able to login. Of course this whole mechanism falls apart if they are welcomed publicly... before they are fully validated and approved by an admin.)

Thanks again for the attempt and the attention.

[haytham]

Thanks. Clicked install. Took some time from me to translate into my language ( only because I am poor at these codes ) Clicked install. Realy nice. Thanks

[rolliet]

I can't seem to find if this has been asked before. Everything works fine and the body of the message is perfect, but the title doesn't give the new user name it gives me this: "This just in: joins our Forums..." So how do I get the title to reflect the new user name?

Thanks for the hack I really like it.

Edit: Got it fixed had to change title to :$userinfo[username]

[5wayshosting]

can someone confirm this hack is right to install.

cheers:banana: