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

[acquiesce]

Is there any way to add a link to the new members profile?

[Tom_S]

Okay...little help here please. I have been going through the thread and I am not sure so can anyone direct me to the working version of this for when a user has activated his/her account only. There has been so many modifications to this to suit one person or another that I am not sure which one to use in the many threads. I love the mod!

Very much appreciated

Thanks

[Tom_S]

I have it installed but I do not like the fact that it posts this for users who are not even activated. I tried the setup to fix that and then it dosen't include the username when it makes the post for the activated user. Ideas?

[Tom_S]

Oops...I didn't see this thread:

Originally Posted by dknelson

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

Thanks

[Tom_S]

Nope..that didn't work...It makes it do what I said and show no username at all and it still makes the post even though it isn't activated.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by dknelson

You would have to try it but I would think that the hook: register_addmember_complete would do what you want it to. That one has been suggested before though. Have you tried it? It didn't work on my board but I think it was because I don't use moderator approval for new registrations so the approval was instant. I would think it would work in your case though.

Thanks for the reply... yes I did try it, in fact, my plug-in's "Hook Location" was already set to register_activate_process.

And yet, the new thread is created as soon as the new member registers. Not after they validate their email, nor after a moderator approves the new user... right after they sign up. Which obviously makes this hack unusable for me.

Thanks for the help, anyway.

[optrex]

Originally Posted by dknelson

Thanks...but I am looking to add it to the TITLE...Like...

Welcome: New user from wherever

use this in your plugin


$title = "Welcome to the forum: " . $userinfo[username]. " from " . $userinfo[field2]; // The thread title

[dknelson]

FANTASTIC...that works perfectly. Thank you VERY much.

[Bree]

I've had this installed for quite a while now - works great and I love it!! Thanks so much! *Installed* and *Nominated*

Always Bree

PS Using vB 3.6.5 =0)

[adwade]

Originally Posted by dknelson

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.

Does anybody know how to do this or know of a similar hack that will do this?

Just curious if anything else is out there like this? Being a newbie, and not a coder, all the additional tweaks to this MOD (in the previous 20+ pages of conversation) tends to make me Would love to have this work on my board, but not sure I could sift thru all the instructions, revisions, and suggestions and make it so.

[Freak0204]

Originally Posted by 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]

I did that to try and fix the same problem but now get this error when I registered a test account to see if it worked.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/babble/public_html/forum/register.php(1002) : eval()'d code on line 10

[lil7rocket]

I am rewriting this slightly to work better with 3.6 and have control in the AdminCP

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by lil7rocket

I am rewriting this slightly to work better with 3.6 and have control in the AdminCP

Awesome. Would be most excellent if you could set it so that the admin could choose precisely WHEN the Welcome Thread is created:

-after registration, or
-after email confirmation, or
-after user moderation (which is what I would choose, since my forum is user-moderated)

No one has been able to crack that nut yet, and if you do, I personally will be happy to send you a $ token of my appreciation!!

[adwade]

Originally Posted by lil7rocket

I am rewriting this slightly to work better with 3.6 and have control in the AdminCP

That would just be a BLESSING for us poor non-coders out here wanting this!? :up:

[BigJimTheLug]

Originally Posted by lil7rocket

I am rewriting this slightly to work better with 3.6 and have control in the AdminCP

Thanks. I've been searching for this mod, glad I found it.