How to automatically send a new user a welcome message

[pachoofoosh]

This code will automatically send new users a welcome message when they register. :happycbig:

Step 1.) Open up register.php. Find the line that looks like the following:
$document->addLangvar($mysidia->lang->success.$mysidia->input->post("username").$mysidia->lang->success2);

Step 2.) Right under that line, paste this:
$pm = new PrivateMessage(); // Send them a welcoming message
$pm->setsender('YourUsernameHere');
$pm->setrecipient(htmlentities(addslashes(trim($mysidia->input->post("username")))));
$pm->setmessage("the message title", "put your welcoming message here");
$pm->post();

[Hall of Famer]

Looks good. Note there is no need to automatically load a class file, as the autoloader will attempt to find the appropriate class file for you.

[pachoofoosh]

Looks good. Note there is no need to automatically load a class file, as the autoloader will attempt to find the appropriate class file for you.

Thanks! I've updated the code now. :happycbig:

[Hall of Famer]

Great, this looks like it will help users a lot.

[AndromedaKerova]

I assume this is incompatible with 1.3.4 because I can't see a $document thing in the register.php

[Kyttias]

I'm not in the best position to test this, but for v1.3.4, open up view/registerview.php, and find:

if($mysidia->input->post("submit")){
$document->setTitle($this->lang->success_title);
$document->addLangvar($this->lang->success.$mysidia->input->post("username").$this->lang->success2);
return;
}

and replace it with:

if($mysidia->input->post("submit")){
$document->setTitle($this->lang->success_title);
$document->addLangvar($this->lang->success.$mysidia->input->post("username").$this->lang->success2);

$pm = new PrivateMessage(); // Send them a welcoming message
$pm->setsender('YourUsernameHere');
$pm->setrecipient(htmlentities(addslashes(trim($mysidia->input->post("username")))));
$pm->setmessage("the message title", "put your welcoming message here");
$pm->post();

return;
}

Could someone test this?

[AndromedaKerova]

Tested and verified. Good work! Thank you Kyttias!

[Kyttias]

Oh cool! :BIGO: I was wondering how to send PMs to people with the system.

[LUC1G07CH1]

This is pretty old, but i have to say that it works 100% fine here.
Kyttias is just like...my heroine. Now i doesn't need to put the welcome code to random pages.