Automatically change Guests to Members

[Boyo]

When an unregistered guest comes to my board they can see certain boards but once they register I want them to be allowed to access the next level automatically. I can manually change them to "Member" but I would prefer it to be as soon as they have freshly loggind in.
I am running 1.3.0 with the bug fix update.

[David]

You could do this with membergroups.  Set the boards you want only registered members to see to only be accessable to all your different membergroups.

[Boyo]

OK, but how does a registered member become a member of a default group? Can I make "newby" a group?

[David]

"newby" is a membergroup

[Boyo]

I am totally unable to come up with a way for guests who newly register to be automatically upgraded to a default membergroup without my manually modifying their profile. Is there something in the template that can be altered to have a default profile membergroup?

[mediman]

You have "default" membergroups" like Newbie,Junior Member,Full Member,Senior Member,God Member

if an user register then he is automatically member of the newbie group!

[Boyo]

Well, yes I suppose he is but...

When you go into the Admin section to Manage Categories, the Newbie Group is not one of the selections. If I add it in the Edit Membergorup section and then select it in the Manage Categories Section  it still doesn't work. I must manually update the membergroup in their Profile.

[mediman]

yes it is not a selection, but you can put it manually in this field! or will you make this groups as a selection? need you code for this?

medi

[Boyo]

Yes, the code would be good but I am as green as grass when it come to this sort of thing but I follow directions to the letter.

What seems right is to have the ability to set a default group for a member other than "blank".

Or how can I make the Newbie group a selection?

[mediman]

<files>Sources/ManageCats.php</files>

<search>$request = mysql_query("SELECT membergroup FROM {$db_prefix}membergroups WHERE (ID_GROUP=1 OR ID_GROUP > 7)");</search>

<replace>$request = mysql_query("SELECT membergroup FROM {$db_prefix}membergroups");</replace>

<done>

now all membergroups apear as selection!

medi

[Boyo]

Wonderful! I am going home for dinner now but I will do this first thing in the morning.

[mediman]

if you have any questions....

medi  

[Boyo]

OK, so now all of the Membergroup selections appear in the Member Group list and Newbie can be selected and it is added to the Forum Category when you click Modify BUT it still doesn't allow Newbies to Automatically view that specific forum.