Is This Possible?....

[Xenon]

the fieldid you'll get when you highlight the edit profilefield link and look into the status bar.

you must use the right numbers or it cannot work

[groovesalad]

Yeah, used the correct numbers. Have you tried it on your site? Maybe I have a conflicting hack interfering with it? .....don't know. Either way, thanks for your help

[Xenon]

yes i've tried it on my testboard now and it works perfectly.

you must have made a small mistake while hacking...

an normally there shouldn't be a conflicting hack, because it just uses a form value if the hack doesn't empty this val it should work...

[groovesalad]

Ok, let's see if I did this wrong. Here's the steps I did.

1. Went to ACP and went to ACP > User Groups > Add ( under Title, I gave it DVD ), then clicked Save

2. I placed my cursor over the EDIT link for the newly created DVD group. It showed a number of 13

3. Went to Forums & Moderators > Add. I created a private group (maybe this is the problem - it being private?) called DVD. Then clicked on Save Forum.

4. Ran my cursor over the newly created Forum and got a number of 35.

For the code, I put this:

if($field13=="test") $newusergroupid=35;

Then I went to my board as an unregistered user. I registered with a random username and put the password as "test" (w/o quotes). Then I replied to the user authentication email.

However, now when I go into my ACP and look at the newly created user, they are placed in the "Registered" category instead of the "DVD" category.

Was this correct? Thanks again for your help.

[Xenon]

ahh no i see what you've made wrong, you've missmatched some general vb terms.

step 1 and 2 are ok, usergroupid=13
step 3 and 4 are completly wrong for the instructions i meant:
section User Profile Fields > Add
add a new field lenght what you want, editable by user yes, hidden for other users in profile
after creating this field get the id and then chage the ifclause to:
if($fieldX=="test") $newusergroupid=13;
Replace the x with profilefield id

[groovesalad]

Works perfectly! Thank you

Do you know if there is a way to send the DVD subscribers a different User Confirmation Email once they subscribe? Something that is different than the normal "Registered" users?

If that's not possible, then maybe this:

I signed up on a board once, replied to the user confirmation email, and once I signed into the board, I got a pop up box saying I had a private message. The message was just greeting me to the board. I noticed that the PM Popup button is always set to NO when my subscribers sign up. Is there any way to get it to default to YES?

[Xenon]

you have to edit the registeroption templates to set defaults from YES to NO or the other way

yes, as i say most of the time: Nearly everything is possible, but a secound email isnt as easy as this hack here, because you have to edit more than just one file

[groovesalad]

Great. Well, i really appreciate your help.