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djbaxter

09-26-2012 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilverBoy (Post 2368579)

It is working with me, but the most read threads or most replied threads blocks always grab data from the day one of the forum, and the date that we entered to select only threads starting from it don't work any more !!
for example if I select the date as 1 September, it displays threads written in 2003 and the last reply was in 2006 !!
How I can solve this???

Yes, the date not updating has been a longstanding problem and I never found a fix for that.

What I do is periodically between mail-outs I go into the AdminCP and adjust the date and then click on preview mailing. After that it will use the new date until I go in and manually change it again.

Calystos

09-26-2012 04:39 AM

Yup, totally confirm that it was indeed that cron mail sending system. Works without it enabled, but enable it and it just stops so yeah gonna leave that disabled from now on I think, lol. I reckon its because the commbull system had its cron file removed so its trying to run the cron but can't because of the missing file.

Am gonna look into the issue in regards to why the post to forum option doesn't work sometime soon though. It comes up with an invalid sql query, "query was empty" error. It posts to the forum fine, but then it seems it resets or blanks the query in regards to continuing on to actually email the post. Go fig. Its not an essential feature, but thought it might be handy for a backup log or something. Or maybe for other things.

Nelson58

09-29-2012 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2368060)

If you still have one of the older versions (paid versions) try that. Version 5.1 never really worked properly for me but 4.5f is still going strong, week after week, now on 4.2.0 PL2.

Otherwise, please give me details about your settings and I'll try to figure it out.

One recommendation to try is this:

AdminCP >> Settings >> Email Options

Use Mailqueue System = No

Use Cron Based Sending = No

Number of Emails to Send Per Batch = 1000 (tweak this if it creates problems on your server)

E-Mail Send Delay = None (tweak this if it creates problems on your server)

Encode as UTF-8 = No

SMTP Email = No

How would I get one of the older versions, like 4.5f to try it on my 4.20 PL system?

Thanks!

Nelson

djbaxter

09-29-2012 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Allthumbz (Post 2369482)

How would I get one of the older versions, like 4.5f to try it on my 4.20 PL system?

Thanks!

Nelson

You would have to contact grandeur_69 who created the product. The earlier versions were commercial products.

SilverBoy

09-30-2012 03:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2368582)

Thanks djbaxter for your reply, but really I didn't get the point :confused:

I want the date criteria to be applied to most reply and most read threads, is there away to do this?

Thanks :).

djbaxter

09-30-2012 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilverBoy (Post 2369685)

Thanks djbaxter for your reply, but really I didn't get the point :confused:

I want the date criteria to be applied to most reply and most read threads, is there away to do this?

Thanks :).

Not to my knowledge. Then again, I don't know why you'd want to do that.

SilverBoy

09-30-2012 10:04 PM

Thanks again :)
I want it to display the most active threads in my forum in this week for example, not to show my members 8 years old threads and in the most cases it is dead thread now ;).

djbaxter

09-30-2012 10:58 PM

From the AdminCP for my version of CommBull:

Quote:

Show info starting from this date: Day Month Year

Only include threads that have been started or replied to since this date? Yes/No

Note: Only applies to sections sorted by Most Replies or Most Views (others automatically adhere to above date)

Do you see this in your version?

SilverBoy

10-01-2012 03:44 AM

yes but it didn't change any thing !! always getting the same threads !!

Nelson58

10-02-2012 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2369507)

You would have to contact grandeur_69 who created the product. The earlier versions were commercial products.

djbaxter,

I don't mean to be a pest, but is there any way you can help me to get this working on 4.2 PL2? I installed the 5.1 on here but no go.

I would be willing to pay for a newsletter app that works with 4.2 since I wont be able to afford to upgrade to 5.0 for a while.

Thanks man!

Nelson
www.Hobby-Machinist.com

djbaxter

10-02-2012 06:17 PM

I could give it a try but I'm using 4.5f. I was never as happy with the later versions. Do you have an earlier version?

Nelson58

10-04-2012 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2370267)

I could give it a try but I'm using 4.5f. I was never as happy with the later versions. Do you have an earlier version?

I contacted Grandeur and got no response.

So many people want a newsletter, myself included, it really does energize the less active members of the forum.

If you or someone could get 5.1 working, I would be very appreciative and send you some money via Paypal.

Nelson
www.Hobby-Machinist.com

djbaxter

10-04-2012 04:03 PM

If you PM or email me the following, I'll see what I can do:

FTP access
Admin CP access with admin privileges

Nelson58

10-05-2012 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2370755)

If you PM or email me the following, I'll see what I can do:

FTP access
Admin CP access with admin privileges

Do you want me to reinstall 5.1a first?

Thanks,

Nelson

djbaxter

10-05-2012 03:01 PM

Up to you. I can do that if you wish.

PakGamerz

03-10-2013 07:00 AM

hey can anybody share the plugin 4.5f, because i need to run a cron job for community bulletin, i am willing to pay also. I tried to download the package from the developers site but the link is down, Please share the cron file.php with me asap.

Thanks

djbaxter

03-11-2013 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PakGamerz (Post 2409114)

That would be a copyright violation because the 4.x versions were all paid add-ons. Try contacting the developer, grandeur_69, via PM from this site.

Majora

03-25-2013 11:05 PM

I still get this error when i open /admincp/commbull.php to send the E-Mail:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE user ADD receivebulletin SMALLINT (5) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '1' not null;

MySQL-Fehler : Duplicate column name 'receivebulletin'

I already used the 3 querys:

Code:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;

ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

djbaxter

03-26-2013 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Majora (Post 2412293)

Code:

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin;

ALTER TABLE user DROP INDEX receivebulletin;

ALTER TABLE user DROP receivebulletin_type;

I'm sorry but I don't use that version of Commbull and I cannot provide any support for it.

Big Kahuna

05-30-2013 07:44 PM

This is the feature I most miss from VB3 -- and I sure wish there was a version for VB4. Too many people having too many problems trying to modify the VB3 version to work with VB4 for me to want to jump in.

cnczone

10-14-2013 03:14 AM

any updates no longer working with VB 4.2.2???

ozzy47

10-14-2013 03:35 AM

Define no longer working??

cnczone

10-14-2013 04:24 AM

getting erorrs-

Warning: Function eregi_replace() is deprecated in ..../admincp/commbull_functions_preview.php on line 236

and

Warning: Function eregi_replace() is deprecated in ..../admincp/commbull_functions.php on line 390

and

Warning: Function eregi_replace() is deprecated in ..../admincp/commbull_functions.php on line 382

ozzy47

10-14-2013 04:37 AM

Edit that file and change all instances of eregi_replace with preg_replace

If that don't work, undo the changes.

Nelson58

01-12-2014 02:54 PM

This is why a RELIABLE community newsletter mod is still needed. Ozzy, any chance of repairing Christeris' newsletter mod so that it works better? I had it and it worked for a while, then died.

ozzy47

01-12-2014 02:56 PM

I will at some point, but not sure when.

djbaxter

01-12-2014 04:30 PM

The newsletter started by Maria and continued and then abandoned by Christeris was flawed from the start and never worked very well.

If you're going to work on a newsletter, try revamping CommBull. That one worked (and still works on many 4.x installations with a little tweaking) but is in need of updating. As far as I know, the code has been released since the original coder no longer has time to update and support it.

Nelson58

01-13-2014 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2473824)

That would be awesome, but I don't know if he can find the original coder to get permission.

Some features that would be awesome would be the ability to configure or "grab" the header from the site to customize the newsletter, and reliable unsubscription links in both user settings and through the newsletter.

ozzy47

01-13-2014 12:11 PM

I own the rights to the NewsLetter mod, that was by Maria and then Christos. At some point I will look into updating it to work correctly. :)

djbaxter

01-13-2014 05:14 PM

If it's going to be useful, it will require some conceptual changes. The original concept for the one you now own was clumsy, awkward, non-intuitive, and flawed. Add he fact that it never worked properly and it's little wonder it was never completed.

That's why I said you might want to try to contact grandeur_69 for permission to use his code.

mvigod

01-20-2014 06:16 PM

+1 on updating this for 4.2.2

VB 4.x sorely lacks a newsletter feature

cnczone

01-21-2014 05:59 AM

Me too!

Nelson58

01-23-2014 05:29 PM

I will GLADLY pay for a good working pro version of a newsletter for my home shop machinist site. This could be what I am looking for.

Nelson
www.Hobby-Machinist.com

rcull

07-12-2014 03:47 AM

I think I have commbull up and running on my site again, I was very concerned about loosing commbull and it seemed to no longer have support. I did contact grandeur_69 to ask if he was able to supply me with the old pro version ( which I owned, but lost ), but he said this new one was better.

He said he was otherwise unable to help. I would like to see djbaxter, vbulletin, or some other coder take on this as a project. I would expect grandeur might be willing to turn over the rights and allow a new owner to charge for a "Pro" version as he used to.

djbaxter has been active in supporting this mod, I hope some people thank him through paypal.

Nelson58

07-17-2014 03:31 PM

Dj? Any interest in taking this on as a project? I would certainly buy an updated working version.

Nelson

Black Snow

07-18-2014 06:19 PM

Can't get it to work on 4.2.2. When I go to admincp/commbull.php, it redirects to commbull_settings.php. I can't see a preview etc.

Marv	08-06-2014 12:13 PM

Can anybody tell me, how commbull was setup for beeing used with a cronjob? Would like to figure out, if this could be done with this one, too.

khalled

11-30-2014 11:04 PM

Is commbull working on vb 4.2.2.

cnczone

11-30-2014 11:13 PM

not for me it's not.

rnedelkow

01-30-2015 05:40 PM

Any chance we could hire someone to port this mod to vb5?

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