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Topic: New member notification?

Posted By: Hazelip
Subject: New member notification?
Date Posted: 14 November 2004 at 9:37am

Am I missing something here? Aren't I supposed to get a notice by e-mail of a new member registration?

I've gone over my forum settings, and I can't seem to find it, but I was sure that a basic function like this existed in WWF...

Thanks,
Jake

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 November 2004 at 12:10pm

Sorry, there is no such feature in web wiz forums.

You can only get email notification of posts and private messages.

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Posted By: Hazelip
Date Posted: 14 November 2004 at 2:17pm

Sorry for the confusion on my part. Until I found WebWiz, I had gone through a couple of other message board packages. Perhaps I'm recalling a feature from another board.

Could this, perhaps, be included in future releases as an option? For example, I'm awaiting the registrations of several friends of mine. Upon their registration, I'm going to add the to a private group that will reveal a private forum for us apart from the general setup. I have to keep checking the forum to see if someone new has registered.

If it were a check box in the forum configuration that would alert me upon new member registration, I'd be on top of things without all the manual checking.

Thanks for your time,
Jake

Posted By: arpee
Date Posted: 15 November 2004 at 10:15am

I need the same thing and plan to add it. I'll post the code if you like

Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 15 November 2004 at 10:35am

it isn't that hard to impliment,

just copy the email sent to the new user, and edit its details and change the email address who its sent to.

Posted By: arpee
Date Posted: 16 November 2004 at 5:17pm

I believe what Hazelip wants is to receive a BCC when someone registers. A simple solution would be to just add a .BCC field in the functions_send_mail.asp file.

The problem with that is you will get BCCed on every piece of mail that goes through the forum like post reply notices, PM notices, etc..

Another, more efficient way is to simply edit the register.asp page so that a variable is passed to the functions_send_mail.asp page.

Like this:

Add the session tag to register.asp (or any other page that includes the email function)

<%Session("BCC") = True%>

Now open functions_send_mail.asp and find the code for your particular email program. I will use CDOSYS for this example.

.To = strRecipientName

If Session("BCC") = True then

.BCC = mailto:your@emailaddress.com - your@emailaddress.com

Session("BCC") = False

End If

Now, everytime someone registers, you will get a copy.

Posted By: Hazelip
Date Posted: 16 November 2004 at 6:09pm

That's sort of what I want, arpee. What I really want, is two options in the forum configuration. If neither is selected, then nothing from the current set up would be affected.

1. Receive all individual notices of new forum member registrations.
2. Receive a daily digest of all new forum member registrations.

Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 16 November 2004 at 6:14pm

1 quite easy to do.

2. unless you are scheduling .. it would be a bit hard to do.... it is do able.

by checking the date and if its different to yesturday run a script and change a veriable in the Confoig table to hold todays date.

*edit -

but if noone visits for a day it wont be updated/run the script.

Posted By: arpee
Date Posted: 16 November 2004 at 6:45pm

dj air is correct.

If you want to do number 1, then edit your code as I posted above.

Number 2 will take a little more creativity. If you have access to the server and are able to setup scheduling, I can post the code if you like for setting up a nightly email. I do this for several of my projects.