First Contact - automatically send PM and email for members when they register...
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Hello, It’s my first extension, so if you find some bugs or may be you have an advice how to make it more useful for you just write down or send me a PM.
Upload + activate, write greeting message (u can use {username},{screen_name}, {email}, {site_name}, {site_url} tags inside), choose the sender and you are ready for the First Contact.
Note: *If you have email activation, message will be send after user activation. **It works with user registration by CP, theyself or with User module from SolSpace.
Enjoy: Last update: 04.08.2008
Hi there,
Looks and sounds very interesting. Well done on your first extension. Will try this one out later tonight.
Best wishes,
Mark
Hiya,
Actually couldn’t wait to test it out so did! 😉
I don’t know if it is just me or not but I tried this on a couple of ExpressionEngine installs and when I clicked install I initially got a blank screen, once I went back to the admin page by typing in the address in the browser I could see that the extension was installed and I could change the settings but upon installing it the page went blank. May be me though as I have added a few extensions and plugins to the system although I wouldn’t have thought any of them would make this happen.
One other thing I noticed was that when I registered on the site it did indeed send out the e-mail right after I had confirmed registration but the {username} variable came up as {username} and wasn’t converted into the actual username.
Looks like a good start to a nice extension though other than those couple of things. They may of course have been something silly that I did though, I’ve been known to do that from time to time!! 😉 😊 😉
Best wishes,
Mark
Thanks for quick feedback! 😊 The bug with {username} is fixed and can you check - is it still blank screen after installation?
Just tested and all seems to be fine now!!
Top work on this one 😉
Best wishes,
Mark
I’m trying to find an add-on that will automatically send an email when a member’s group has been changed (I suppose we should be able to choose which group assignments receive notification too).
This looks like it does something similar for 1st time registrants, but the client is looking to let members know when they’ve been “upgraded”. Is there something else that’ll allow that function?
, it’s no hooks for this I will look on it, but in all case it was needed a manual hooking administration_update function in cp.myaccount.php
OK, I think I’m using it for it’s original purpose now. I did set up a new account in the CP and it did work. Should this also work if someone registers on the site and then is manually approved by an Admin? What exactly is it monitoring to know when someone is new? I changed an account that I had approved back to “Pending” and then to “Guest” and nothing happened so that’s why I’m asking.
About issue with set up account by CP - it passable if u have activation by email. In this case message will send only after validation pass. But I will look on it close today and will try to complete version with MSM-compatibility, and couple new futures.
This is a cool extension Max. I’m actually looking for an extension that will automatically send an email to visitors that comment on the site for the first time. Do you know of an extension that can do this??
no, I don’t know extension with this functionality :(. But I will try to add this trigger to new version of FC extension.
Cool! That will be great. I’ll be waiting for the new version 😉
Thanks
Hi Max - (re: http://twitter.com/wiseupstudio/statuses/17002523254) I need to be able to send a different message to users registered via the control panel by an admin, vs those who register via the front end. I tried just duplicating and renaming some of the variables and the mail function myself, but the new extension didn’t want to register itself in the CP for some reason. Is this an easy update to make conceptually?
Also, I’m not sure the Sender ID works - the mail sent is always from the admin email address.
Thanks,
LucPestille I have some prototypes of new version with this functionality in my sandbox, so I will look today or on this weekend. Regarding Sender ID - it was only for PM. But its just a question of couple code lines for working with email.
Ok. I will be really happy if you test next version of First Contact ext, and told what do you think about it (more triggers, tags for templates?). Work name – MX Notify Control, I will ported it for EE2 after version 2.1 release.
p.s. I’m not English-native person, so feel free to correct me with field’s descriptions.