How do you add users to a new user's friend list?

okhawaja

Thank you for this plugin! It's awesome. I feel like the empty friendly that you see when you have no friends is kind of ugly in terms of css, so I thought why not add some default users like a moderator and admin to every new user's friendly? The problem is I don't know how to If I were to try this then I would probably modify the plugin to insert the hardcoded usernames into the friendlist, but I know that's not the right way to do it, so how would I do this the proper way without altering files?

hgtonight

This got caught in the SPAM filter.

okhawaja

Ah! No wonder it never showed up...Basically I am wondering if it's possible to auto-insert a group of people into every new user's friend list. This way a user has friends by default.

River

@okhawaja said:

I feel like the empty friendly that you see when you have no friends is kind of ugly in terms of css,

Basically I am wondering if it's possible to auto-insert a group of people into every new user's friend list. This way a user has friends by default.

better to add a definition in conf/config.php or add message or pocket instead of modifying add-on or adding names to db.

$Definition['Friends list'] = "friends of Admin and Moderator";

or
$Definition['Friends list'] ="";

or just create a message panel that has admin and moderator picture in it and place it directly below the friendship module.

see for definitions

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale

see module sorting

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/232501/#Comment_232501

okhawaja

When I first signed up on MySpace or some other social website, by default 1-2 people were in my friendslist and they sent me an auto pm. I'd like to do the same thing for my site where a new user has atleast 1-3 default users in their friendlist.

R_J

You could write a plugin that uses an event which is fired after a user has registered . When that event is fired you have to insert one or more rows into GDN_Friendship. The code below should work (but it is untested)

public function userModel_afterInsertUser_handler($sender, $args) {
    Gdn::sql()->insert(
        'Friendship', 
        array(
            'RequestedBy' => Your Admin ID, // Change that!!!!
            'RequestedTo' => $args['InsertUserID'],
            'RequestedOn' => Gdn_Format::toDateTime()
        )
    );
}