vBulletin boards

[paul_oshea]

This is probably more directed towards moderators/admins but i was wondering if some of you out there who have worked with VBulletin boards could give me some info, i will direct specific questions later but if you could just give me general info about them and also appearance/settings/portalisation etc.

are these the default for member subscriptions:

Thread and forum subscriptions allow users to be notified via email when there have been new posts to forums/threads which are of interest. I believe that the default behaviour is as follows:

- if you start or add a post to a thread you are automatically subscribed to that thread.
- you will be notified when anyone posts to that thread.
- You must set a forum subscription manually.
- If you are subscribed to a forum you will get a daily digest indicating new activity on the forum

How is it possible to switch these off?

btw it isnt a rival site or anything, its just an internal work thing that someone asked me to have a look at but i havent much of a clue so was hoping someone could guide me along the way....

Thanks for any help!

[GavinZac]

yes it is

[paul_oshea]

yes it is

you are saying it is rival or is directed to mods/admin?

its internal, you have to work for the company to see it so it cant be rival if its the former case.

anyhow looks like people dont either know or want to answer!

[tiktok]

Hi Paul.

I openly admit to being clueless, but if this Vbulletin thing is the same format that foot.ie runs on, then in the user control panel under edit options there is a drop down menu that allows people to opt out of email notification to posts.
I'd imagine each user would have to set this up on their own accounts.

Hope that helps, if it doesn't, well, I am clueless.

[GavinZac]

you are saying it is rival or is directed to mods/admin?

its internal, you have to work for the company to see it so it cant be rival if its the former case.

anyhow looks like people dont either know or want to answer!

no sorry, was just being lazy with my response

it is possible to change the defaults for every user who registers. people who've already registered would have to do it themselves, unless you ran an SQL script

[GavinZac]

if you trust me (a random stranger i know, but i've worked with a few sites), it would be a lot easier for me to do it myself than to explain it.

[paul_oshea]

i trust ye why are ye volunteering!!

tittok, thanks for the reply that is essentially what i am trying to do, but with instant messaging! unfortunately this has to be coded manually into the php the board uses to run. I know it can be done as I have found the code but I am unable to implement it cos im thick

essentially i think its a cool idea, if you would want it, so that you could add it to a users profile whether or not they want to be notified via instant messaging.


gavinzac are you saying that you(everyone) can create an sql script to change every users default settings??thats pretty cool

[GavinZac]

i trust ye why are ye volunteering!!

tittok, thanks for the reply that is essentially what i am trying to do, but with instant messaging! unfortunately this has to be coded manually into the php the board uses to run. I know it can be done as I have found the code but I am unable to implement it cos im thick

essentially i think its a cool idea, if you would want it, so that you could add it to a users profile whether or not they want to be notified via instant messaging.

gavinzac are you saying that you(everyone) can create an sql script to change every users default settings??thats pretty cool

instant messaging? you've lost me.

heres what i assumed you wanted the first time:
to turn off the automatic subscription to threads. its a simple setting in one of the configuration things.
to change it for everybody who's already registered, you could either go through all their profiles and change them 1 by 1, or set up an SQL query that changed the setting for everyone.

now i think you want:
a message to pop up in MSN or AOL or ICQ say that you've gotten a response. that would be possible, but its complicated coding.

[paul_oshea]

sorry gavin yes i would like that sql statement if you have it.

gavin in relation to the second part yes i also want that, i have actually the code for it, and i have it working but not at work because its going through a firewall. if you could give me the piece of code for the initial problem that would be great.

[GavinZac]

sorry gavin yes i would like that sql statement if you have it.

gavin in relation to the second part yes i also want that, i have actually the code for it, and i have it working but not at work because its going through a firewall. if you could give me the piece of code for the initial problem that would be great.

if you find the table and column where the value of "subscribe to threads", then i can give you the SQL.

im more familiar with phpBB (http://shedend.com/component/option,...rum/Itemid,55/) but i have worked with a free version of vBB in the past.