Update Welcome Message and New User Notify (Not Index Announcement)

[patrija]

I have usergroups setup as Unregistered, Registered, and Approved. Unregistered users have no rights. Registered users can view photos, but not upload or comment. Approved users can view, upload, and comment. There is no forum integration, this is a pure photo gallery. Gallery is at http://www.netpatrick.com/photopost/index.php

I'm trying to do two things:

1) Put a very visible message on the index page for unregistered users that tells them they have to register to view photos and need to request ability to upload photos. I've updated the Welcome text via the Admin screen, but it's still not very visible. I tried the Announcement box, but that shows up on ALL index screens and I want to post a message only for the unregisered user. Ideas?

2) I can't find an option to notify the admin of newly registered users. Currently my plan is to have the users send an email to the webmaster, but would prefer an auto-notification upon user registration. I have the valid email requirement turned on, and that obviously send an email to the new user ... can I mod that file to also send an notification email to the admin? Ideas?

Ive searched through this forum and seen this question asked a bunch of different ways ... but the solutions come back to, "use the announcement box" and "no new user notification to admin, but good idea". Any new ideas???

Thanks!

[Chuck S]

1. The announcement box has a 200 character limit so you can use that if you wish otherwise try editing your indexhead template and place a new html table with the code and wording you want.

2. You can ask code modifications to the code in the mod corner for things that fall outside product support. The people are right there is no email sent to admin when a user registers.

[patrija]

Thanks

1) The 200 char limit on the Announcement Box isn't my issue - it's that I have text that I only want to display to unregistered users. I'll try the mod to the index head template.

2) Can you point me to the file that sends the registration email confirmation? I might be able to mod that myself.

[Chuck S]

Yes you can use html

The register.php is the one you want to mod

[patrija]

Thanks.

Will try to update the template.

Updated register.php with following starting at line 325 and seems to be working fine. Simply sends the admin an email with a title that alerts for a user to be approved and one line with the new user name. Someone else could probably make it fancier.

if ($Globals['emailverify'] == "yes")
{
$resulta = ppmysql_query("SELECT userid FROM {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}users WHERE username='$pick_username' AND joindate='$joindate' LIMIT 1", $link);
list( $theuid ) = mysql_fetch_row($resulta);

include "{$Globals['PP_PATH']}/languages/{$Globals['pplang']}.php";
$email_approve = $Globals['adminemail'];
$subject_approve = "NetPatrick: New Photo Gallery User";
$newuser_approve = $pick_username;
$email_from = "From: {$Globals['adminemail']}";
$letter = $Globals['pp_lang']['emailreg'];
$letter = stripslashes($letter);
$subject = $Globals['pp_lang']['emailrsub'];

mail( $email_approve, $subject_approve, $newuser_approve, $email_from );

mail( $email, $subject, $letter, $email_from );

diewell( "{$Globals['pp_lang']['thanksreg']}<p><a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/index.php\"><span class=\"{$Style['medium']}\">
{$Globals['pp_lang']['retfront']} {$Globals['galleryname']}</span></a>" );

}