Fixed with the new version! Thanks!

Excellent, that worked!

Only minor issue left is no entry in the Admin CP for sending the newsletter. A search of phrases for commbull shows:

receive_email_from_commbull Standard Phrase Receive Community Bulletin Newsletters
type_email_from_commbull Standard Phrase HTML if checked. Plain Text if unchecked.

Jim

ok, found that problem too. re-upload the product-commbull.xml. It should re-upload the phrases. If it doesn't, you may have to manually add it to:
"Control Panel Home Pages" (cphome)
var: commbull
phrase: Send Community Bulletin

grandeur_69,

Thanks a million - that worked perfectly!

Regards,
Jim

This was very easy to install and is working great on my test run!

I do have a question though, is there anyway to add a header or logo to this? If there were a way to add my sites header then it would make it look more professional. I am satisfied either way and appreciate all of your hard work with this :D

you can add HTML (that would link to your logo) to the HTML version on the preview page or add it to the personlization section on the 1st page.

I also have this problem running vb3.5.3

Ah ok! I got the graphic in there! Thanks :D

Please do not post problems with the commercial version in here. They will not be answered. Use: http://www.octanedev.com/support/

I gave this a shot after basically giving up on Combull a while back. I reinstalled it but the same thing happens. I have 8,000 members, but after about 243 it just stops. Nothing more happens. Any clues as to what can cause this?

I wish someone would write a real mailer for vBulletin - it would be worth so much more than $10 for us.

the problem isn't the mailer, it's your servers ability to handle it. We have one forum that we send the mail out to 32,000 people and another we send to 40,000 every weekend and it sends out fine.

Your first shot is in German, so I don't understand it - would you please post an english version? Also, the third shot isn't clickable, so I can't really tell what this does. It seems like it mails out the threads to everyone ... ? How is this different than the reminders when people subscribe to threads? Is this kinda like a forced subscription to the forums?

hi

how can i edit the complete layout of the newsletter sent ?

thanks

paul

Strange. I have a dedicated box (AMD Athlon 64 3200+) with 2GB RAM running only 2 sites. My forums have on average about 100 concurrent users.

What do I need to tweak on the server to improve the mail sending ability?

Works perfect with 3.6.2 :)

send it at non-peak hours, like 2am.

if you understand PHP, you can go into the commbull.php and change the html ... otherwise, nothing. The commercial version has a template version though, but you will have to discuss that elsewhere.

Why does my version say 3.5f in the control panel?

Can I get some support in the official 3.6 support forum, please? You were very eager to accept my payment but now I'm not permitted to ask for 3.6 support here and can't get it elsewhere. Hello??

is there anyway it can feed out the forum name instead of the forum id?

There is an information about the commercial version, that I would DEFINITELY would like to have gotten BEFORE I had bought it.

The php-files are secured with a software named "zend". I cannot use commbull without this software.
To get this software I have to register there and I have to give them all personal data, including the adress and the telephone-numer.

Well, I understand it, that coders want to make theire code save. But on the other side ... I want to have the choice about that and I want to know that BEFORE I pay the software.

Hopefully I will get a solution without giving this zend-devils all my data. I don´t think I will install this software if this is the onliest way. But please: TELL THIS YOUR CUSTOMMERS IN ADVANCE SO THEY CAN DECIDE!

Best wishes, Julian!

... and I can´t install zend. I only have FTP to my server and I would have to pay about the 10th of what commbull costs just to get it installed.

As I said ... I am pissed that you don´t communicate this in advance. Please give me another way without the need of changing something directly on the server.

Best wishes, Julian!

if you had read either the post about the commercial version or the post immediately below the "buy" button, you would have figured this out. Besides that, there is also a IonCube version which allows you use with only FTP access. Besides all that, there are very few hosting companies that I have run into over the years that doesn't support one or the other ... try asking.

I did ask.
I am on a shared machine and the hoster declines to install something that he doesn?t know and that has an effect on the whole machine.

Even the FTP-Version need some changes on the server directly, I didn?t find a way to install IonCube with the access I have.

Okay, you?re right about the information below the "buy"-button. I didn?t see it. But there is no thread about the commercial-version and you also block any support for the commercial version here.

The pissing-thing is that to get this software to run I need to pay much more then the product costs, I have to spent muche more time in it and so on. For a software that costs 10 Dollars, which is very little money, for my opinion this is very respectless to the custommers. Even any note in this (!) thread is missing about Zend or IonCube.

It also surprises me that you communicate, that the only reason why you?re taking money for the hack is because of the company you developed it for. You personally would share it for free. I don?t understand why this hardcore copyright-saving is needet for a software that you personally would share for free.

I personally would prefear to pay much more, but also to get a thing that is worth the money. 10 Dollars for something that isn?t working or that isn?t working for me without paying 100 Dollars more on it is just to much money. Even the 10 Dollars is to much for me. On the other hand ... 100 Dollars for a working software would be okay, if I knew it before.

Another thing: My most reason to buy this license was to find out if it works the way I want to have it working. And as a kind of respect to the work you do. This is the way that feels good to me to be respectfull.

However ... I think I over-reacted. On the other hand ... I don?t see a way to get this software running for me, so I think this is just another 10-Dollar-Loss for me for no reason. Bad Luck.

Best wishes, Julian!

By the way ... what about using the old php-file at a new commercial-installation. It seems to me like the onliest file, that is protected, is the one php-file. Is the commercial version also working with the old php-file?

if you are referring to the 3.5x version, no, that wouldn't work because it has been largely re-written (mostly cleaned up) and so the other files wouldn't even be used by the new program.

Also, i'm not even supposed to be discussing any of these issues in here because it is a commercial version and vb.org has deleted these posts already once and has warned me that any discussion of the commercial version has to take place elsewhere ...

Okay, everybody, I mean it serious:

I apologize for the trouble I made!

Grandeur found a good solution for me and I am very thankfull for that. I think in the last months I just had too many bad experiances with some programmers, that promised a lot and didn?t do anything.

In this case, I reacted to fast, I gave Grandeur much to less time to solve my problem and he is still friendly and did solve it for me.

On this point, also, I believe that the non-discussion about the commercial version is a rule that comes from outside. Please, Grandeur, just forget about the bullshit I wrote before. ;-)

Best wishes, Julian!

How do you get the gradients to show up as the right color. My forum has purple gradients..however when I send the email it shown as the default blue...is there an option to change this?

THANKS

the style information that is used is based on what you have set as the default as your forum, whether it is a file or the full CSS.

It is possible that you have your forum set to use the original style as the default, but have your profile set to use a custom template.

But it doesn't bold the table headers like you see in the default style that you set. I liked the way it was formatted the 3.0 version ... what template can I edit to change this?

I will send you a copy of the newsletter so you can see for yourself how this version is making the newsletter look like a bunch of colored words in tableless columns on a *bland* background.

all the templates can be edited in the commbull_template_html and ..._txt.php files in /admincp/

Thanks for this hack :)

File Attach: French phrases ^^

I purchased the full version of this but haven't received an email saying that there's been an update for VB version 3.6.4. Has this been released yet?

how long does it take to get the hack from payment? I have been waiting two days now

@GNDI:
there is only one person pending to receive the hack and that is because they didn't give me their URL at the time of payment. The hacks usually get sent out each evening (on business days), depending on the time of receiving them.

@booth:
if your email address that you used to make the payment for commbull is not active or has a heavy spam filter, then there is a possibility of not receiving the updates. Make sure that you can receive emails from the domain octanedev.com and that they don't end up in your JUNK or SPAM folders.

I was reviewing this after getting one of these emails from another site. I would have popped it on the site if it was a normal hack. The cost on the other site is $25 not the other number mentioned above.

While I have no problem with people charging for their services, I do think the commercial version is way over advertised here. This entire thread is full of wink wink nudge nudge remarks.

I won't bother registering on the other site - especially since the link for information about the product takes you to a page with no information, no feature details and no price, just a paypal button.

Has anyone modified this hack to get it working on 3.6?

From reading the thread it seems the cron jobs are not there - not that much of a deal.

Since this is the free hack, it would be good to see more discussion about it with the latest version, or a suggestion to a 3.6 version.

Cron's do work, this thread just hadn't been updated.

For full details on the commercial version, you must visit the forum (as most people figured out).

The differences between the two versions are now quite vast (and hence the charge of $25 instead of $10 because I have spent a lot of time adding in things that people have requested).

It would probably only take 3-4 hours to get a beta version of this 3.4 hack to work with 3.6. I know there was one at one point, but quite a few of the options also didn't work properly and it was discontinued (and it was a pain to give support too, i heard).

If you order 3.6 be prepared to be annoyed. I have ordered a second license and still waiting almost a week for the script. I do everything legal and get to wait. One of the worst business minds I have dealt with in my entire experience with vb products.

1) it's been 4 days
2) check your email from which you payed for it ... you may then hit yourself in the head after realizing that it was sent approximately 12 hours after purchase to the email account that is attached to your paypal account ...

Not there. So fun!