UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Version 7 Support Force users to update profile

I had a field missing for a while (accept emails from admins) so that I have about 12k users with a null field. The only way I think I can legally email them is to tell them to accept new board rules and update their profile. Is there a builtin way to force people to update their profile with new mandatory fields after they accept the new rules. If not, how hard would this be to implement? Is it as simple as changing the redirect path to their profile page?

i'd just hijaack ubbthreads.php, do a query on that field after your get the $user object

if NULL then slap $ubb='editbasic' and fall thru

that would force them to answer yes/no before _ever_ going on

now, if you really just want that _one_ field edited, _and_ you want to kinda give then a nice reason for doing so, then you could create 2 files ( assuming english only board)

scripts/onetime.inc.php
templates/default/onetime.tpl

where the tpl kinda explains why they landed there in nice / friendly terms

the forum has one field ( radio yes/no ) and a submit.. it posts back to itself, updates and then sets $redirect to forums display and done

Why didn't I think of that

Thanks SD. I won't lie, part of the reason to do the email for updated privacy is to get people back on my website who have long departed.

agree, if you have such a huge user base ( mailing list ), why not use it to your benefit

what i do is export the email list to a csv, then to phplist ( free ), grab a nice mailchimp template ( free ) and use it to do the heavy lifting.

the formatting of the mailer is much more flexible that way too

We're at Dreamhost and they have a pretty strict quota on outbound email so we are looking at using MailChimp. Plus with that many email addresses we have to keep things as legit as possible to avoid getting our domain blacklisted. I like your free thinking though!

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