Thread: Automated Welcome Message in member's inbox.

I'd like to create a nice "Welcome to our site" welcome message that ONLY goes to a member's inbox. This way, when a new member first logs in, they will have a message waiting with the welcome and some basic site info, upload a photo reminder, and assorted tips and hints for the site. I've looked around a bit but cannot find any way to do just THIS. Anyone know of any mods or done this themsleves?

I would say something like this in the join form:

Code:

$result = db_res( "INSERT INTO `Messages` ( `Date`, `Sender`, `Recipient`, `Text`, `Subject`, `New` ) VALUES ( NOW(), {$member['ID']}, {$recipient['ID']}, '$message_text', '$message_subject', '1' )" );

with $message_text and $message_subject coming from a GlParam, Sender being an admin type user, and Recipient being the person who just joined - would be not difficult to do.

Smoge

Okay, using the code you mentioned, I've been able to set up the Join Form with it, and added the strings to the GlParams table. At this point, I've elliminated any database query errors that were getting returned. So now, I get a successful join, the messages table is being updated, but with empty fields, the from and to are both 0, and I get several repetitions of this. I can manually change the sender to one of the admin IDs but the recipient ID is the problem. As well, the message is empty, so I'm guessing the message needs to be in a language key that is referenced by the GlParams? Anywho, thanks for the info Smoge, it's gotten me started in the right direction. I've seen several similar posts over on Expertzz asking for this same feature, so I want to try to get it worked out for myself and possibly as a freebie. I would have thought that for a dating community site, this would have been something that they would have offered anyway, you want to make your new members feel warm and fuzzy, and give em some info about your site.

Originally Posted by Smoge

I would say something like this in the join form:

Code:

$result = db_res( "INSERT INTO `Messages` ( `Date`, `Sender`, `Recipient`, `Text`, `Subject`, `New` ) VALUES ( NOW(), {$member['ID']}, {$recipient['ID']}, '$message_text', '$message_subject', '1' )" );

with $message_text and $message_subject coming from a GlParam, Sender being an admin type user, and Recipient being the person who just joined - would be not difficult to do.

Smoge

how ican insert this code?
and wher?