Welcome Message in Any Forum

Ok. I have edited PPN's new member in a forum hack to welcome someone into any forum on your board.
Basically if you want to welcome a member and have your current members welcome them this is the hack for you.
Check out the text file it has all you need to do it.
Thanks to PPN for the majority of this hack! 99% of the credit goes to him.
You can see it in action here:
http://www.lotronline.com/forums/for...p?s=&forumid=3
Comments and questions are appreciated!

[OldManWillow]

User registrations is on the vbulletion options link. : ) Anything else you need feel free to ask!

[Raptor]

Originally posted by OldManWillow
User registrations is on the vbulletion options link. : ) Anything else you need feel free to ask!

yeah i got that - its 3:30am and i feel so stupid

edited the last bit out of pure embarresment

[Raptor]

i accidentley ran both quereies twice

how to delete them and start again ?

[Raptor]

sorted now - works great

[Raptor]

Originally posted by neal
Installed and working, thanks OldManWillow.

I used my default board username to send the autopost, then modified the code in register.php to change its userid from 0 to what it actually is. Now, instead of showing up as a guest and not being able to view its profile, you can view its profile and it shows up as a user.

I've one small bug for you:

When you use vbcode, in specific the [url] code, in the welcome_newuser template, you get a parsing error when you register and nothing but a title in the post. I believe this is with all vbcode, but it's only been tested with the url.

Otherwise, great idea and it works great!

could you post the code you used for your welcome_user template please - thanks

[OldManWillow]

sure

[OldManWillow]

Welcome $username to $bbtitle!
Enjoy Yourself and post often!

[neal]

Originally posted by Raptor


could you post the code you used for your welcome_user template please - thanks

certainly:

Please welcome $bbtitles's newest member, $username!

$username has just registered to become the newest addition to the Teenaged Web community.  Existing members, please welcome $username in!

$username's profile: http://www.teenagedweb.com/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$userid
Email $username:  http://www.teenagedweb.com/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=mailform&userid=$userid
Send $username a PM:  http://www.teenagedweb.com/private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newmessage&userid=$userid

Thank you for joining $username.  We hope you will maximize your experience while at $bbtitle,

The $bbtitle Staff
http://www.teenagedweb.com

[Raptor]

fantatsic thanks

I combined this with the number of posts to view threads hack and set it up so they HAD to reply to their welcome message before they could use the forum

gives them a good introduction to the forum

[OldManWillow]

cool man!