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

[ATVTorture]

I'm trying to figure out which template or PHP page performs the query for "recent threads" and "new threads since your last visit". I would like to limit the query so it doesn't include posts from this particular forum in both of those areas.

I figured I would add something to the query like this so that the query doesn't look for new threads in the forum with an ID of 100:

and !forum_id='100'

Is this possible?

Thanks!

[ATVTorture]

Anybody have an idea to my last reply?

Thanks!

[Peaches]

Thanks amy! this works great and was just what I was looking for. My board is ver 3.8.0

[mrtroybaker]

Originally Posted by raugusto

You should go to upload/download plugins instead.

I tried this and get this

This file appears to be a Plugin, not a Product. Please use the Plugin Manager to add this file.


Im using 3.8.1 anyone help me out?

[mrtroybaker]

NEVERMIND!! I figured it out

[The Executioner]

Where and how do I make a template called welcome_thread ??

[wizardan]

Flawless install on a 3.8.1 board.

[Bergler]

Does anyone know if this mod will work on 3.8.2 ??

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by Cloudrunner

Small annoyance--

If you have templates names added in the HTML through you AdminCP, you will get the following when using this unelss you have the template names in THML comments disabled

"<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: welcome_thread -->...<SNIP>...<!-- END TEMPLATE: welcome_thread -->"

Just an FYI, most people will not run with template names in HTML to cut down on bandwidth, but I turn them on sometimes when working on a new style.

I used Katie's plugin from post #416, added the signature lines into it by adding the instructions a few pages back and everything seems to be working perfectly. Except for the fact that when the new thread was created, I saw the same "Begin Template" 'stuff' on the post. How do we adjust this to not show?

Edited: Scratch that, found the option under "General Settings" listed under "Add Template Name in HTML Comments".

[ArnyVee]

Hmm....had worked with a testuser that I added through normal registration and worked. But, since then I've had a few new members and it hasn't worked. Strange.

Anyone have any tips to make sure that this works?

[ArnyVee]

Okay, it's officially not working for some reason.

Are there any other options to having a thread start automatically upon a new member's registration or activation?

[ArnyVee]

Am I doing something wrong here? I really want this to work for my forum and it isn't right now.

// Backend Files
    require_once('./global.php');
    require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
    require_once('./includes/class_dm_threadpost.php');

// Setup Variables change to match your forum
    $forumid = 2; // The forum id that you want the thread posted in
    $postuserid = 1; // The Userid of the poster
    $postusername = "WDBArnyVee"; // Enter the username of the poster
    $title = "Give A Warm TheWDB.com Welcome To $userinfo[username] "; // The thread title

// Don't change below this line

// Start thread create
    $threaddm = new vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost($vbulletin, ERRTYPE_STANDARD);

    $username = htmlspecialchars_uni($username); 
    $allowsmilie = '1';
    $visible = '1';
    $sig = '1';  //show signature 1/on 0/off
    eval('$pagetext .= "' . fetch_template('welcome_thread') . '";'); 

// Insert thread
    $threaddm->do_set('forumid', $forumid);
    $threaddm->do_set('postuserid', $postuserid);
    $threaddm->do_set('userid', $postuserid);
    $threaddm->do_set('username', $postusername);
    $threaddm->do_set('pagetext', $pagetext);
    $threaddm->do_set('title', $title);
    $threaddm->do_set('allowsmilie', $allowsmilie);
    $threaddm->do_set('visible', $visible);
    $threaddm->do_set('showsignature', 1);
    $tid = $threaddm->save();

// Update last post stuff on forumdisplay
    require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php'); 
    build_forum_counters($forumid);

[ArnyVee]

Okay, I removed the "sig" lines which originally were there to automatically have the signature showing. Now, it worked!

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

Uninstalled and upgraded to the 3.8.x version with more features:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...95#post1826395