Private Messages Enhancements - New PM to unregistered Users

I've had this little trick installed on my forum and its bought me a few decent registrations as a result.

As so many people where asking how its done, i thought i'd post it here for ease, giving credit to the guys below.

Credit to this edit, goes to KW802 and FRDS who made it so

What does it do??

When an unregistered person views your forum, they will see what appears to be an unread PM notification, with flashing gif, When the user clicks to read the message he's taken to the register page, Once registered he will recieve a welcome PM which has previously been set by yourself in your ACP, to send a PM to new registrations.

Thats it, so simple and it takes, practically minutes to install.

Where to edit??

Simply add the code below to your forums style header template, at the end and save, It really is that simple.

<if condition="$show['registerbutton']"><div align="right">You have a new PM! Click here <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">here</a> to read it! <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="http://yourforum/newpm.gif" border="0"></a></div></if>

Edits to the Code

All you need to do is just upload the flashing newpm.gif to your images folder or any other folder you wish and provide the url in the code, if you view the code you'll see where it goes.

This will only show to unregistered viewers, registered members will not see this.

Hope it brings new registrations to your site also


Take care

[UKBusinessLive]

Thats Cool, Goes well on your site too

Anything that gets the lurkers to sign up is a bonus, even better for them if you include a little something in your welcome PM, free trial of a usergroup, free arcade, or downloads??

More happy members

[nascartr]

Thanks and good idea, forgot to add our features to the welcome PM!

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by nascartr

Thanks and good idea, forgot to add our features to the welcome PM!

I like that twist, what did you do to the code? can you provide it?

[nascartr]

This is what I used. I don't use the <if> or <div> tags with the box I have it in, but went ahead and included them in the following code to stay uniformed with the original author's script.

<if condition="$show['registerbutton']"><div align="right">You have <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">1</a> new message! Click <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">here</a> to read it! <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="images/newpm.gif" border="0"></a></div></if>

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by nascartr

This is what I used. I don't use the <if> or <div> tags with the box I have it in but I just placed my code the same way the original author did so you wouldn't be confused!

<if condition="$show['registerbutton']"><div align="right">You have <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">1</a> new message! Click <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">here</a> to read it! <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="images/newpm.gif" border="0"></a></div></if>

Fantastic. Thanks, can never get enough of the cool modifications you guys do.