Instant New Thread email notification

[charris0910]

Anyone else notice that new thread posts do not generate email notifications? Any subsequent replies to the thread do seem to generate email notifications.

Any fixes for this?

[wdwms]

Yes and its stupid annoying, listed as a bug here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-10533

No determined version of when this will come back, its listed as "backlog"

I've found that this feature is actually coded in core/includes/functions_newpost.php

There is a function called: exec_send_notification:

/**
* Sends Thread subscription Notifications
* @param integer The Thread ID
* @param integer The User ID making the Post
* @param integer The Post ID of the new post
*/
function exec_send_notification($threadid, $userid, $postid)

The code of this function clearly does what we want it to; however there is no call to this function anywhere in VB. If someone could tell me where i should call this function we can get a work-around going.

[nhawk]

Actually I believe the notifications are handled in /core/vb/library/content.php.

The functions_newpost.php file is a remnant from vB4.

[wdwms]

Thanks, i found the sendNotifications() function in there, which looks like does what we are looking for.

/includes/vb5/frontend/controller/createcontent.php looks like where this call should go..

not sure i have the expertise to figure this out.

[wdwms]

Can't figure this out. our users are complaining, and the lack of instant email response is killing our traffic!

[wdwms]

Has anyone tackled this yet? I'd be willing to put up some money to get a temporary add-on for this..

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Was able to hack it enough to get subscriptions to send, and auto subscribe on a reply to post.. its not perfect, but it will do for now.

[heredia21]

Has anyone tackled this yet? I'd be willing to put up some money to get a temporary add-on for this..

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Was able to hack it enough to get subscriptions to send, and auto subscribe on a reply to post.. its not perfect, but it will do for now.
How did you do it?

[wdwms]

How did you do it?

We made our own function that does the email sending, and then found the right spot in /core/vb/library/content.php to include it.

Works for what we need for now.