Greet Members' Xth posts via Email/PM/Thread automatically

Hiyas,

Greeting your board's contributing members when they reached some special post numbers like 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 can be nice to motivate them and this is what this hack does: It automatically greets your members when their posts reach to certain numbers, by sending them:
* Private Messages
* Emails
* or both

You can configure the hack to create a thread to greet your member's Xth post either.

Features:
* The hack will send PMs, emails (or both) or you can choose to send them PM if he can receive PM or else send email.
* The hack can create special greeting threads for your users. (optional)
* Greeted post numbers are set by you and you can set different numbers for email/pm greetings and thread greetings. So for example you can send a thank you email/pm to members for their every 100th message and create a special greeting thread for their every 500th messages.
* Admin can choose to receive a report via Email or PM about the greetings the hack performed. (optional)
* Special usergroups can be excluded from greetings. (optional)
* Greetings messages are template driven and easily customizable.
* Compatible with ALL vbulletin versions I know.
* Easy to install and highly customizable.

Although this hack is supposed to be a "time consuming" to code hack, I already had a similar algorithm for automatic threads/emails/pms for my Automatic Birthday Greetings Hack and I made a quick adaptation in that hack's structure to form this one.

Although I didnt test this hack for a long time, I dont expect any problems since its structure which is inherited from "birthday greetings hack" proved to be quite robust, stable and tested for a long time. If you come across any bugs, holler and I'll fix it. Holler anyway if it runs ok too..

One known issue: This version of the hack is not coded to detect their Xth posts if it is "moderated". So moderator approved posts may be missed. This also applies to thread's first message IF member choose to create a poll (technically vbulletin behaves these posts as if they are moderated). But all other posts will be detected by the hack wheather they are thread's first messages or reply messages and regardless of the board they are in. (public/private)

If you use it please click INSTALL , thank you! Enjoy the hack..

Logician \\=^))

[Erwin]

Logician's hack works beautifully. I installed it recently and it has been working flawlessly - my members love it. Thanks, mate.

[legendarysk8er]

I tried opening the php file and it was just a bunch of symbols, was the file corupt or something?

EDIT: Nvm, I got it, nice hack .

[midnightz]

Yummy hack

[midnightz]

Hi Logician

Is it possible somehow to have store points given to users to celebrate lets say a 2500th post?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by midnightz

Hi Logician

Is it possible somehow to have store points given to users to celebrate lets say a 2500th post?

You can add:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET storep=storep+100 WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'"); 


Before hack line:

$greeteduserpostsstring=(string)$greeteduserposts;

and it will grant the poster "100" points everytime a user is greeted by the hack.

But please note that it is not a perfect solution because wise users might cheet: After they posted their X posts and get the point, they can delete any of their posts to lower their post count by 1, then repost and get another greeting thus point.

Please do not ask for a fix for it as it is not possible without changing the hack's structure..

[midnightz]

Thank you

[erikajune]

I'm having a problem... I installed everything, got no errors but nothing happens when a member reaches the desired post count.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by erikajune

I'm having a problem... I installed everything, got no errors but nothing happens when a member reaches the desired post count.

Please double check you installed it correctly. If everything looks all right, make sure you created the hack templates in all your template sets if you have more than one. Also make sure template names are correct (including caps). It sounds like a template problem.