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

[kenfuzed]

Just added this to my 3.6.4 installation and so far it works perfectly. I'll keep an eye on it.

Ken

[Shazz]

[high]* Shazz forgot to click install [/high]

[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. 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?

[Renae]

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. 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.

[rjmjr69]

Originally Posted by Renae

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.

[Renae]

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

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.

[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

[fly]

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

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'.

[Renae]

Originally Posted by flypaper

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.

[fly]

Originally Posted by Renae

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.