The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

About Developer · **Released**: 01-31-2009

Redirect Unregistered Users to Register page in X seconds
v.2.00

What does this template mod do?
Basically, this will increase registration rates by letting your guests view the forum posts, threads, etc for X amount of seconds until they get redirected to the registration page. I use this on my forum is works great! It has increased the registrations by a long shot. The key to this is that most users who join vBulletin forums cannot find the register link sometimes and often are confused. With this, they immediately get sent there and register!

How do I install this modification?
Installing is the simple part. Here we go:

simple steps into installing!

Go to admin cp>style manager>all style options>place in your header.......

Code:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1" AND "THIS_SCRIPT != 'register'">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforum.com/register.php">
</if>

Replace X with how many seconds you want the unregistered to view your board.
Replace "yourforum" with your site name.

Press Save.

Next, go into your FTPs and replace your register.php with the one below.

You are all finished

.

I will not be giving support to people who do not mark as installed and I do not accept help pms.

Thanks!

History:

March 1st - Initial Release
Introduction to experiment

April 19th - Register.php Addition
- Fixed Refreshing While in Registration
Thanks AllOutVB

sebil · #2 02-01-2009, 08:04 PM

I liked the concept..
But there is a problem

I m loged with my username and password but after 10 seconds itz going to the register page
and showing this message

Quote:

vBulletin Message
Our records show that you have already registered under the name of MalluDreams. If you have lost your password, click here. If you would like to modify your profile, click here.

It would be so great if it only happenes to guests

F0xy · #3 02-01-2009, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sebil

I liked the concept..
But there is a problem

I m loged with my username and password but after 10 seconds itz going to the register page
and showing this message

It would be so great if it only happenes to guests

this will work:

Code:

<if condition="$show['guest']">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforum.com/register.php">
</if>

surely this would effect googlebots on your site? and you said it was proven but I don't see any proof?

Phaedrus · #4 02-01-2009, 10:29 PM

It's because the script uses the Userid of 1 rather than the Usergroup of 1...

Change the script to:

Code:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforumurl.com/register.php">
</if>

Phaedrus · #5 02-01-2009, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by F0xy

this will work:

Code:

<if condition="$show['guest']">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforum.com/register.php">
</if>

surely this would effect googlebots on your site? and you said it was proven but I don't see any proof?

Yes, this would work also.

Phaedrus · #6 02-01-2009, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sebil

I liked the concept..
But there is a problem

I m loged with my username and password but after 10 seconds itz going to the register page
and showing this message

It would be so great if it only happenes to guests

Another suggestion. Give your users enough time to log in before it is redirected. Some hunt-and-peckers are going to take longer than 10 seconds.

Trip · #7 02-01-2009, 11:35 PM

Looks like a great idea. I'm also curious if this will affect how your forum is "spidered". Don't quite follow the relationship between Userid of 1 rather than the Usergroup of 1.

TheInsaneManiac · #8 02-02-2009, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip

Looks like a great idea. I'm also curious if this will affect how your forum is "spidered". Don't quite follow the relationship between Userid of 1 rather than the Usergroup of 1.

Google doesn't follow meta tags.

tafreeh · #9 02-02-2009, 05:50 AM

does is show a warning or message like " you are being redirect to register page..."

Stubbed · #10 02-02-2009, 04:53 PM

No.

Pretty poorly coded IMHO, if it wasn't for the input of the other people in this thread it wouldn't even work.

This will just annoy guest users more than anything.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.04798 seconds Memory Usage 2,324KB Queries Executed 24 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (4)bbcode_code (5)bbcode_quote (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)modsystem_post (1)navbar (4)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (2)pagenav_pagelink (10)post_thanks_box (10)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (10)post_thanks_postbit_info (9)postbit (1)postbit_attachment (10)postbit_onlinestatus (10)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_attachment postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
Messages:

The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

It is not a VB3 engine, just a parsed copy!