Can user default settings be changed?

[Boris]

Hi, I'm running version 2.0b5 and I was wondering if it's possible to change the default user options - so that when someone registers they would have those options already set. (Since right now, on my board, whenever someone registers, the PMs are turned off, the Show Signatures is off, Show Avatars is off.... and so on --- and i would really like to make them ON by default)

Also, I was using UBB5.47e and I imported the users successfully. However, when you click on the link of a username in the "Thread Starter" section, I always get an error "No user specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster" This only happens for the "imported" users... the normally created users work fine (and it happens ONLY in the Thread Starter section - the "Last Post" section works even for "imported" users).

Thanks in advance for any clarifications.

Boris

[JamesUS]

1) Change the registeradult & registercoppa template. You need to add "CHECKED" into the new default value for each yes/no option and take CHECKED out of the tag for the old default.

[Freddie Bingham]

When a new user registers those options should be on by default. Perhaps you need to check your registeradult template and verify that it contains the following html:

<input type="hidden" name="showsignatures" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="showavatars" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="showimages" value="yes">

[TooHectic]

freddie...

what about when you import UBB users? I just imported my UBB forums yesterday, but it seems as though the above settings (avatar, sig, etc) are set to no.

Is there a way I can change current users settings?

[Freddie Bingham]

run this query via phpmyadmin or mysql

UPDATE user SET options=15

[Boris]

Alright, I've managed to make the default user options the way I wanted. Just one other question remains:

After I imported all the UBB users and posts, I went into the "Maintenance" section and used all the tools there to "refresh" the last poster and thread starter fields and topic counters...etc.... but, now if I click on a "imported user" link in the "Thread Starter" section (for an imported post), I get the error I told you in my first post on this thread - basically, "No user specified..."

Is there any way to fix that?

I noticed that this only happens for imported users on imported posts.... if an imported user posts a new topic (and obviously he's the thread starter), when I click on his user link in the Thread Starter section, it works.

Thanks for any help.

Boris

[TooHectic]

I'm a little shady on the mysql side of things....

so Freddie, when I login to mysql, is that all I have to type? or do I some how need to specify some database name? or will it know automatically if that is my only database?

Also, does that command automatically set all values to the default ones that a new registered user uses? If so, I would like to disable "email notification by default" and a few of the others before I proceed with that command. What do I have to do to do that? I'm sorry if this is an inconvenience. Thanks.

Specific commands woud be appreciated. Thanks.

Good work guys with RC1!