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Released: 07-08-2005 Last Update: 10-16-2005 Installs: 272
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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

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Old 12-01-2006, 12:47 PM
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I still have the problem though of it posting the thread as SOON as they register and I would like it to not post until they have confirmed the email confirmation. Can somebody help with this?

I'd like to use this mod, but would prefer to wait for the above functionality too please. I've clicked install so I can keep track of developments.
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Old 12-01-2006, 11:50 PM
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Can anyone give me pointers re the template installed by this addon. The template does not seem to be processed for markup so I am unsure of what to put into it. I am om 3.61. SO if anyone could post the content of their template showing how to do markup, it would be appreciated.

Cheers
Bruce
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hmm dont seem to be working on 3.64 as i got this error.
Hope it is ported over to 3.64.
I got this error.

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Today I was checking my site to see if all files was ok, so I went to create a new member. after filling out the forms, I clicked submit and got this error.


Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /*****/****/****/****/gamerspride.com/phpBB2/includes/functions_databuild.php on line 164
Called build_forum_counters in /****/local/home/****/gamerspride.com/phpBB2/register.php(480) : eval()'d code on line 37
Called eval in /****/****/*****/*****/gamerspride.com/phpBB2/register.php on line 480
in /includes/class_dm.php on line 235
anyone know what this means?
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Old 12-21-2006, 03:48 PM
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Like to see a version for 3.6.4 coz don't work on it atm..
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Old 12-21-2006, 03:59 PM
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I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm using my own version of this hack on 3.6.4...
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Old 12-22-2006, 04:12 AM
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Just added this to my 3.6.4 installation and so far it works perfectly. I'll keep an eye on it.

Ken
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Old 12-22-2006, 04:17 AM
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[high]* Shazz forgot to click install [/high]
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This is a good hack and I thank Amy for releasing it. It appears though and she doesn't have any desire to update it though and I don't know how. Two features that I would really like to see and have asked about but have received no responses are:

1. An option so that it does not create the welcome thread until after the new registrant had replied to the confirmation email.

2. The thread title could include the users location. State, Province, etc.

Does anybody know how to do this or know of a similar hack that will do this?
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Old 01-17-2007, 07:34 PM
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This is a good hack and I thank Amy for releasing it. It appears though and she doesn't have any desire to update it though and I don't know how. Two features that I would really like to see and have asked about but have received no responses are:

1. An option so that it does not create the welcome thread until after the new registrant had replied to the confirmation email.

2. The thread title could include the users location. State, Province, etc.

Does anybody know how to do this or know of a similar hack that will do this?
I also would like this. As we want to use this hack a little differently. Only the staff will see these threads, and it would help them if they knew more about the members. I was playing around with some stuff...but the most important thing would be determining the members usergroups. I tried a couple things, but was unable to figure it out.
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I also would like this. As we want to use this hack a little differently. Only the staff will see these threads, and it would help them if they knew more about the members. I was playing around with some stuff...but the most important thing would be determining the members usergroups. I tried a couple things, but was unable to figure it out.
I would imagine that you could just set it to your staff safe house if you have one setup. Or start a forum that is only viewable to your staff and have it set the email there.
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I would imagine that you could just set it to your staff safe house if you have one setup. Or start a forum that is only viewable to your staff and have it set the email there.
Unfortuantely that's not what I'm talking about. I already have that all done and such. I was wanting more help on using variables in the templates to display more information about the user that just registered in the thread that is posted for my staff to see.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...e+in+templates
Were the examples that I was using to try to come up with the logic to do this. Using the different fields in the user table. There is a field called "[membergroupids]" in the User table, but I guess I am still a little unsure on how to access this field in a template.

Why do I want this? I throw users into secondary usergroups based on a field they pick at registration, and we want to know what member group they are in.

So does anyone have any experience with this? I'm a little slow I suppose.
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:41 AM
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For those of you who want this heck to create the welcome thread AFTER a new member responds to the confirmation email. I finally figured out how to do that. Very simple.

Go to your CP and then "Plugin Manager".

Beside the "Start Welcome Thread...." plugin click on "Edit".

In the second field from the top "Hook Location"...click the arrow and choose:
register_activate_process

That's all there is to it.

Now if somebody could help me figure out how to add the users "Location" to the title, that would be nice. Something like Welcome: Name from Location

I've tried but no luck yet.

Don
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For those of you who want this heck to create the welcome thread AFTER a new member responds to the confirmation email. I finally figured out how to do that. Very simple.

Go to your CP and then "Plugin Manager".

Beside the "Start Welcome Thread...." plugin click on "Edit".

In the second field from the top "Hook Location"...click the arrow and choose:
register_activate_process

That's all there is to it.

Now if somebody could help me figure out how to add the users "Location" to the title, that would be nice. Something like Welcome: Name from Location

I've tried but no luck yet.

Don
iirc, you'll also need to check that the user has no posts, otherwise you'll get a thread generated when your users change their email address.

To echo the location, you can probably use $userinfo['location']. You'd have to look in the DB for the exact field name, but I'd guess its just 'location'.
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Old 01-30-2007, 03:42 PM
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iirc, you'll also need to check that the user has no posts, otherwise you'll get a thread generated when your users change their email address.
Are you sure? I changed it to the suggested hook location, and changed my email address, but a new thread did not show up.
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Are you sure? I changed it to the suggested hook location, and changed my email address, but a new thread did not show up.
Then, no, I'm not sure. I thought that was the problem I ran into, but I must have used a different hook.
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