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

[lil7rocket]

Hey amy thanks for a great mod I just made some minor modifications to your product so I thought I'd share. Strangely, I only got it to work if i made the mods to the plugin portion before install.
If anyone needs them to get them to work properly on their forum let me know and i can get it working for you.

I am going to work on a version of this with options in the Admin cp using your mod and Sina's mod i think i can hash something together

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by Ski-Whiz

Amy can we get an update for 3.6, AND somehow make this so it can create a thread unpon email verification??

This prevents trolls from creating BS accounts, and spaming our welcome forum..

if you want this to work only after email verification and/or after they finish registration when email verification is disabled then use the edit i just posted
if you dont want the welcome template changed from what you made it then use the one contained here

[PhenomLeader]

I've a question. My new thread is popping up under the username of the new member, and not the 'general staff' username I created.

In the list of threads it looks like the user has posted a thread to welcome him or herself. Once you open the thread, the username is the 'general staff' username.

I don't know where in here:

// Setup Variables
$forumid = 11; // The forum id that you want the thread posted in
$postuserid = 271; // The Userid of the poster
$postusername = "$username"; // The username of the poster
$title = "Welcome new member: " . $username; // The thread title

To fix that?

Should I change $username to the UserID of the 'general staff' that I want to use ?

[PhenomLeader]

I got it, thanks! Great hack!

[I||usi0nz]

great, thanks Amy

What's the difference to your minor modifications lil7rocket?

[Froggy32701]

Does this work w/ 3.6 ?

[Tyegurl]

yes it does!

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by lil7rocket

if you want this to work only after email verification and/or after they finish registration when email verification is disabled then use the edit i just posted

Can this be made to post a new thread (or a new message in an existing thread) when (and only when) a new user is approved from the moderation queue?

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Can this be made to post a new thread (or a new message in an existing thread) when (and only when) a new user is approved from the moderation queue?

yeah after you install it you can just move its hook to register_addmember complete and I believe that will trigger it after the user has been approved if not Ill have to go look at it more in depth later

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by I||usi0nz

great, thanks Amy

What's the difference to your minor modifications lil7rocket?

just streamlines it a little bit

#1 should install seamlessly over any old installations and should work perfect with those using a lot of mods and those using none

#2 is the same but wont overwrite your welcome message with a new one

[lil7rocket]

Originally Posted by PhenomLeader

I'v a question. My new thread is popping up under the username of the new member, and not the 'general staff' username I created.

In the list of threads it looks like the user has posted a thread to welcome him or herself. Once you open the thread, the username is the 'general staff' username.

I don't know where in here:


To fix that?

Should I change $username to the UserID of the 'general staff' that I want to use ?

When you use $username that calls the username of the person who just registered since a variable cant logically have 2 answers you must either

a: create a new variable similar to $username and insert it into the coding structure of the forum (this gets complicated i wouldnt try it)

or B: make $username the UserName of the Staff member who you want to welcome people

[y2krazy]

Could this maybe be substituted by a multi-line textbox on the registration page for a user to type in the actual post? That would be very nice to have.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

so...after 19 pages of posts, is there a clear working version of this at all??

for 3.5 or 3.6???

[bada_bing]

How do you choose which forum and what the welomce thead says? Would be nice if there was a nice menu in admincp for this.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

so...after 19 pages of posts, is there a clear working version of this at all??

for 3.5 or 3.6???

Simple answer is yes, its working with vB 3.6
I had it installed on my vB 3.5 and updated the board to vB 3.6
The hack is still working fine as you can see here
http://www.clanforums.com/forum/intr...html#post80338