Automatic Watch Thread and Watch Forum on Registration [Deleted]

[Chris D]

Chris Deeming submitted a new resource:

Automatic Watch Thread and Watch Forum on Registration - Force users to automatically watch a forum/forums and/or watch a thread/threads upon registering

Note: This add-on is only compatible with XenForo 1.2.x. I will not be making this compatible in any form with XenForo 1.1.x.

Description

This add-on gives you the following new options in Admin CP > Options > User Registration:

View attachment 50162

When a user registers, they will be automatically subscribed to the Forums and Threads selected with the options you specify.

They can, of course, unwatch...

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[Shelley]

Nice work Chris. Always enjoy these add-ons.

If you ever think about creating a x amount of posts to down per forum & usergroup I'd happily purchase that.

 

[Chris D]

I don't understand what you're asking for

 

[surfsup]

Chris.....this is AWESOME!!!

Perfect for automatically sending notifications for important announcements! Awesome man just awesome! I will be buying this soon

 

[RobParker]

That's great. What might be useful is a one-off admin option (or even just the SQL) to also force all current users to have the same setting as otherwise this will only apply to new registrations.

 

[Chris D]

Yeah maybe. That kind of thing doesn't really scale well to large boards unless I use the cache rebuilder to do it. But, the add-on was never designed to be anything more than for new registrations so it would be a custom job if you wanted it doing (but my schedule is tight now until August and beyond)

 

[RobParker]

Yeah maybe. That kind of thing doesn't really scale well to large boards unless I use the cache rebuilder to do it. But, the add-on was never designed to be anything more than for new registrations so it would be a custom job if you wanted it doing (but my schedule is tight now until August and beyond)

Fair enough. I didn't so much mean this for us, rather that it might help others and I thought it'd be straightforward.

What would happen with a simple SQL statement to select all users and set watched forum? Or would that be horrible performance-wise?

 

[Chris D]

That would be horrible performance wise

It would need the help of a PHP script as well to grab the users as well, loop through them, run a query for each one etc.

This is some example code based on a much earlier version of this add-on which I wrote for [bd] Forum Watch:

        $userModel = XenForo_Model::create('XenForo_Model_User');
        $users = $userModel->getAllUsers();
      
        $db = XenForo_Application::getDb();
        XenForo_Db::beginTransaction($db);
      
        foreach ($users AS $user)
        {          
            $db->insert('xf_forum_watch', array(
                'user_id' => $user['user_id'],
                'forum_id' => 7)
            );
        }
      
        XenForo_Db::commit($db);

So that won't work for this add-on, but the premise is still the same.

 

[erich37]

great feature

would it be possible to do the same for the users own "User Profile Page" ?
So that user will be able to receive a "Notification by Email" when there is a new post at their own "Profile Page".....

 

[Chris D]

Nope. Watching forums and threads with email alerts functionality is default in XenForo. What you've suggested isn't. So that would be require custom development.

 

[MattW]

I don't understand what you're asking for

I think Shelley missed half a word from that sentence. I think that she is after a modification where you can limit who can download something on a per forum basis, based on the number of posts they have

 

[Chris D]

Not sure. Because if it was download then the post suggests posts to be downloaded so I'm still confused.

@Shelley can you clarify your suggestion please?

 

[Shelley]

Not sure. Because if it was download then the post suggests posts to be downloaded so I'm still confused.

@Shelley can you clarify your suggestion please?

I'll pc you in a little while chris as it will cause this thread to go off-topic.

 

[MattW]

And to bring it back on topic, I'll be buying this when I'm back off holiday on Tuesday

 

[Chris D]

Slacker.

 

[MattW]

Slacker.

I've had a buy wifi just so I can log in on here, I'm in a tent in a field in Cornwall

 

[Chris D]

You have my deepest condolences.

 

[Mike Edge]

What about a per usergroup option? Then I could force a watched forum based on services the client has using each service offered as it's own usergroup.

 

[Chris D]

How can it be per usergroup when this operates during registration?

 

[Mike Edge]

How can it be per usergroup when this operates during registration?

I ment could you consider creating one like this but per usergroup...