Welcome Message Mod Support (Modzzz)

This is the Support forum for the Welcome Message mod.

Amazing module.

This will make the site more friendly.

I have two questions about this module:

First:

In the Basic setting--Site Timezone, I select "UTC".

And in my site, user can select their own UTC timezone. (I have a predefined value named "UTC").

The question is: Is this module identify user's time according to his IP?

Second:

Can I customize the welcome information?

Can I make the welcome information into multi languages?

that's all I want to know.

thank you very much.

@1265116616

The module uses Javascript to fetch the local time of the visitor.

The Welcome Messages can be customized and can be translated in Multi-Languages.

Details determine success or failure！

This is a fantastic module.

This is a simple module that does what it's meant to do. However, it would be nice if there was a setting that allowed admin or members to choose whether they were welcomed by user name, first name or full name.

I'm using full name on my site and the welcome message reads "Good afternoon Bill Smith". I'd much prefer to see "Good afternoon Bill" or "Good afternoon Smithy", depending on the preference of the member."

If this isn't possible, can you supply a code snippet that truncates the full name to first name only?

Many thanks.

@johnk42 - The untested code change below should display First Name only. 

At line 126 in modules/modzzz/mwelcome/classes/BxMWelcomeModule.php, 

Find :

$aVars[$sEachTime.'_title'] =_t('_modzzz_mwelcome_msg_'.$sEachTime, getNickName(getLoggedId()));

Replace with :

$aProfileInfo = getProfileInfo($iLoggedId);
$aVars[$sEachTime.'_title'] =_t('_modzzz_mwelcome_msg_'.$sEachTime, ucwords($aProfileInfo['FirstName']));

Thanks for your quick response Modzzz. That works fine. It's actually better than I hoped because I also changed the profile field caption "First name" to read "Preferred First Name".

I now have fields for "Full Name" - Robert Smith

and Preferred First Name where the person can enter Rob, Bob, Robert or even Smithy.

This is far better than using NickName which is actually the member's user name.Some members use weird user names and who want's to see a message like "Good afternoon Rob1435"?