|
one of my large forums the email refuses to preview, it runs for awhile and then just quits
|
Hello everyone,
This is rather bizzare... every time I send out a ComBull, the recepient sees random exclamations marks throughout the newsletter text. Some images fail to show up, because that exclamation gets inserted into the path! And it's totally random... anyone has that problem? |
Installed CommBull and after some editting of the commbull.php and the phrases.php (mainly language and html), got it working. A note for some users. My host had a limit of no more than 50 emails per hour from our server, but apon request they increased it to 500 for my site. They just wanted to know if I offered my users an "Opt out" from receiving the Newsletter. So if you have any problens with email flooding, check with your host. Most will accomodate you for a higher email output.
I also found that (for my site anyway) setting the email output to about 25 at a time with a one minute wait in-between seemed to work out quite well. The only problem is that the emails will still not show Calendar events. And does anyone know how to make a cron job for this script? John Ps; Here's a sample of my finished html CommBull And thanks grandeur_69 for the script! |
Quote:
Look in the commbull.php file around line 339 down to line 357. You shound see this at line 339: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head>. This is the start of the html part of the email. From that point on look down the file for html tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>, etc. Those are not all in the same place in the file as in between there are sql guerys, conditional statements, and php sript, etc. What I did was to copy the original email html script from the Admin, place it in my html editor, make changes, and then carefully locate the appropiate place in the commbull.php file and substitute the changes. (make sure you save a backup of the original, just in case!) Some of the language changes have to be made in the commbull_phrases file and there are a few in the commbull file itself. Good luck, John |
Maybe it's just me, although after messing with this one line (around 42) for well over an hour I still see no way whatsoever to absolutely link the stylesheet. No matter what I add or adjust it still comes out:
HTML Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-b82af0f5-00004.css" /> |
Include the entire path url, like
http://yoursite.com/forum/clientscri...f0f5-00004.css Don't forget, it's an email, not a web page. It's going to be read by the users email client on thier computer. There is no folder for the email to read with the css file in it on thier computer. The path to the css file has to be full. You will have to write in the whole url yourself in the commbull.php file at that line. If you store your css as files rather than in the database, I suggest saving the css file in a separate file that the email url can "see" all the time. Because, if you change one little thing in the stylesheet from the Admin panel, the reference number for the stylesheet will change, and the emails won't get the correct css file. Besides, this way you can customize the email style separately from your board. John |
Okay, I figured it out. After another hour or two of useless code playing and searching to figure out exactly how the stylesheet was sourced, it finally ocurred to me to look in the database. Duh.
Lo and behold, a css field resides in the prefix_style table with the entire <link rel= style statement, which will look something like this: Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-bcb1922cb-00104.css" />Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://my-forum-site.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-bcb1922cb-00104.css" /> |
SOmeone asked this question before, with no respoonse.
Does anyone know how to automate this to be sent out every week ? |
I've run the script, sent out my first bulletin, but now the option to change settings within the "editoptions" screen isn't there.
Does anyone know which templates I need to change to allow this? (Besides that, the script is great. It is the first time I've run the HTML version and it looks terrific.) |
Quote:
The install instructions are a little hard to find. There are links at the top and bottom of the page when you run the commbull.php script. I missed it the first time I ran it too. Regards, Matt |
| All times are GMT. The time now is 09:28 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.12 by vBS
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
| X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information | |
|---|---|
|
|
 More Information |
|
|
Template Usage:
Phrase Groups Available:
|
Included Files:
Hooks Called:
|