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

[tobaro]

but it does nothing on my 3.6.9 installation

see my post before - thats the point

[sweptwingnut]

Well, this is going to be an embarrassingly simple question for you all. I have read through all the pages here but since I know so little of this stuff, I am left to ask,,,,,

Where do I access the place in this product to change our welcome message?

We are running 3.6.8 patch 2 and it is working perfectly for us. Just want to do some tweaking on the message. I don't see where I can make an edit in the admincp for VB. I have access to the ftp site for the file if it is there. But where would I go??

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.

[habasabi]

sweptwingnut...

I don't know if you've figured out your question or not yet, but I wanted to let you know... In the Admin CP you go down to Plugins & Products, Then Plug in Manager. You click on the Welcome Thread Modification, and it will open up the page to edit all the text, etc...

Good luck!

[sweptwingnut]

Thanks habasabi! Actually, I have figured it out but not where yours seems to be located. In your location on our setup is the php code request box.

Instead for us,,Styles and Templates / Style Manager / Edit Templates / Welcome Thread - Edit.

Took me a while to dig that deep. Thanks for the reply.

[intricatic]

It's fun to work with in 3.7.1.

[RedeemedWarrior]

ian! ^ *highfives*I'm installing too for CFF

[slabuda]

Lets say i have a few custom profile fields in my Registration and I want to repeat some of fields in the welcome message.

For instance.

If my welcome letter stated..

Welcome Joe User,

Its great to see you are a fithful rider of SUZUKI motorcycles and this is perfect forum for you.

lalalalalalala

Lets assume that i added in my registration a custom field called Motorcycle Type and it was field13.

How would i integrate that into this welcome letter?

Thanks

[GraNdMaStEr-B]

does anyone know when someone joins how to get the welcome thread into the section of the forum you want?

[Mr. INTENSE]

Reading through this thread, there seems to be a ton of confusion over whether or not this mod works, and how to set it up. I installed this Mod and everything about it works perfectly in vBulletin version 3.6.8 Patch Level 2. Thanks to Amy for writing it, and those who helped get it fully debugged.

Here is what my Plugin PHP code currently looks like:

PHP Code:

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

// Setup Variables
    $forumid = 3; // The forum id that you want the thread posted in
    $postuserid = 62; // The Userid of the poster
    $postusername = SNutizzle; // The username of the poster
    $title = "BadBeatsPoker.net welcomes $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';
    $visible = '1';
    eval('$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);
    $tid = $threaddm->save();

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


Here is what my welcome_thread template currently looks like:

Welcome to [url]www.BadBeatsPoker.net[/url], a new and fast growing online poker community. We proudly welcome anyone and everyone who wants to improve his or her game, loves poker talk and/or is willing to positively contribute to our discussions. 

We?re still pretty small, but our community is growing rapidly. I?m sure you?ve already noticed that the forum is first class, so I?d like to take a minute and point out a few of our features that you may not yet be aware of?

We?re hosting weekly private online tournaments, and we?d love to have you join us. It won?t take long to see that we?re a very fun group:

[url]http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/online-tournaments/1134-wednesday-evening-private-online-tournaments.html[/url]

We have our own Chat Room, which is very active in the evenings:

[url=http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/chat/flashchat.php]FlashChat v4.8.3[/url]

We have our own area for personal/poker blogging:

[url=http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/blog.php]Bad Beats Poker Forum - Poker Discussion - Hand Plays - Poker Strategy - Blogs[/url]

We hold some very good hand play discussions:

[url=http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/hand-plays]Hand Plays - Bad Beats Poker Forum - Poker Discussion - Hand Plays - Poker Strategy[/url]

We?ve compiled lists of our members? biggest tournaments scores in the Bad Beats Live Hall of Fame:

[url]http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/brick-mortar-tournaments/917-badbeatspoker-live-tournament-hall-fame.html[/url]

And our Bad Beats Online Hall of Fame:

[url]http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/online-tournaments/983-badbeatspoker-online-tournament-hall-fame.html[/url]

Please be sure to tell all your poker friends about the website, and have them join if they're interested. 

See you at the tables!

And here's what the automatically generated welcome thread looks like:

http://www.badbeatspoker.net/forum/n...-new-post.html

Of course it wouldn't be right to post in this thread without asking for some help, so here goes.

I'd like to tweak this just a little bit to do two additional things:

First, I'd like to check to see if the New Member listed a referrer. And if so, I'd like the automatic welcome thread to be posted by the referrer instead of the specific moderator we have in place currently.

And second, if the New Member did not list a referrer, I'd like to have the new thread posted by a random selection within one of three user groups (Administrators, Super Moderators and Moderators).

I'm thinking both of these things can be done with a few lines of code, but I don't really know anything about coding.

Thanks again for the great Mod, and thanks in advance if anyone is able to help with the tweaks I'm looking to do.

[Mr. INTENSE]

does anyone know when someone joins how to get the welcome thread into the section of the forum you want?

This is the very first setup variable:

// Setup Variables 
    $forumid = 3; // The forum id that you want the thread posted in

See post #409 above for an example.