Mass Admin PM v1.5
 

This is a minor upgrade from the first version, 1 main new feature, and a little code revision.

Features:
Number of PM's to send at a time

It's a server intensive process and you don't want to ultimatly send to everyone at once on your forum unless you have like 50 member's.

New Usergroup Selecting

Your now able to select all, 1 or certain usergroup's to which the PM is sent to, so if you wish to send to staff, Ie, Admins, SMods + Mods, you would simply check all those, making it much easier and saving time.

Very simple install, take you 3 seconds, im not joking, yet very useful, a preview is below for those desiring to see what it look's like first.


Enjoy,

- Zero Tolerance

Thanks for the update. I have your hack installed, use it very rarely, but I find it useful.

You like apostrophes waaay too much ;)

Nice work

Tarion klicked install

Thanks for the update. bravo.

However I have a minor problem. The usergroupd I have set-up are for members to join as a secondary usergroup. They show up on the window, but when trying to send a PM to users I get the error

Can you add support to pm users in the group that are in them as secondary users as well?

It's something ill have to look into, i've never used secondary usergroups (never saw any reason to) and im not exactly sure how they are constructued =)

- Zero Tolerance

awsome update, but just a question...

does the user that disables PMs in the USERCP still recieave a PM from the admin or do they have to have it enabled.

They still get the PM, permissions are by-passed, no matter what settings they have, they will recieve this PM :)

- Zero Tolerance

I would need support for secondary usergroups as well.

I think that the is_member_of() function accounts for secondary usergroups as opposed to using the $bbuserinfo[groupid] (that's probably not exactly right)

Dune had the following modification posted in the original Thread for version 1.0, however at first glance I don't see how this will apply to the new version 1.5.

Im not too sure on using REGEXP and IN within a query, Ie: where field REGEXP IN(bla,bla,bla)

But ill run some tests :)

- Zero Tolerance

wow man this is the 3rd hack of yours i've added for vb3.0.3 :p nice work and on the day he returns from his break :p

Very cool hack. I don't like installing hacks, but I am considering to install this one!

This is a good hack and I am someone who will use it often. One of the things I like about this board's messaging system over my previous one is the ability to request a receipt. It is a shame to loose that feature with Mass PM.

Great update that we use all the time.

Well a receipt would be available, but if you have around 13,000 members then your gonna have 13,000 receipts..not exactly what we want, lol.

However i could make a v1.6 where the user is "forced" to read the PM.

- Zero Tolerance

I have 24,000 members, and i probably will never want to get receipt of MASS PM sent. Best use of this hack is to send greetings to a huge number of members at once or special annoucements. And I found it a wonderful tool.

Thanks ZT I was looking for this hack since I migrated to VB.

PS: One question, (haven't checked it yet) does this Mass PM also generate an email for those users selected to receive PM notification as eMail ? If not don't you think it will be a added feature to this same hack if it gives option to send eMail of the PM (forced eMail even if user selected not to receive PM notification / not to receive eMails from Administration) ?

Regards,
Basit

Nice hack.

Some suggestions:

• Take care of user settings for reveiving PM
• Take care of user settings for eMail notifiication
• Use phrases ;)
  Well, not really necessary but makes it easier for those of us who do not use english
• Add possibility to include username in message ("Dear xyz ...")
• Optimize query so it does not take so much RAM
  Only userid and username should be necessary
• Take care of secondary usergroups
  Could be done by using FIND_IN_SET()?

Installed, thank you!!

XraY :squareeyed:

This is a very nice hack (clicked *INSTALL*), but i've added a little thing...
The title now says [MASSPM] title [/MASSPM]. So that the users know it's a masspm...
find:
below it add:
again... nice work :)

Would love 2 additional mailing options
1. send pm to every member currently online
2. send pm to every member who was online today

would be a really nice way to get a quick anouncement out to those who are active, without having to send to all members

also for really large sites, the ability to batch them would be a great feature.
Something like send "x" at a time, so those sites with tens of thousands of members could actually use this.

Thanks on the great hack, I use this all the time. You rock.

I found the construct_nav_option and the rest. When the instruction stated

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underneath Place:
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construct_nav_option("send PM To Users", admin_pmall.php', '<br/>');

What does that mean. do i replace it or add the above to the (vbphrase['send_email_to_users']

I tried but some how didnt work. I couldnt get into the admin panel

david

Got it... thanks zero

would really love the pm online users option if possible.....
even willing to pay for this addon.

You can ask for it in the Paid Service Forum ;)

Great hack!

I click install

I kind of expected this to take user settings into consideration.
So if a user doesn't want a privmsg, it won't send it,
and if the users who want one, and want notification, will receive an email.
And the popup box settings, etc.

Hopefully version 2.0 will still be just 1 file to upload, and takes those settings into account.

I'm not using REGEXP *AND* IN(), Just REGEXP.

Secondary usergroup membership is stored as a list of values in the user table (ie, "45,6,18". You can't use IN() with this list because you'll unintentionally pickup other values - 4 is IN 45, for example.

The REGEXP function makes it look at the individual values within the list. Works for me!

I would also love to see the "PM on-line users" option too. Tonight I was upgrading my vB software, and I ended up copying and pasting the on-line list, just to warn my users.

Rgds and thanks for another, lovely hack.

does this hack/addon allow you to send html or bbcode in the mass PM?

looks great!

Thanks for this hack.
I would definitely request to be able to PM those people who have said they DO NOT want to receive emails from admin.
I want to send them a PM telling them the message instead. And invite them to turn the email receipt back on.

GREAT HACK!!! easy to install!!

>>However i could make a v1.6 where the user is "forced" to read the PM.

this wud be cool too.

let me know if u come up with new mods.

Vik

My board is someting like www.lol.com/forum/ and once I?ve sent the MPs a window opens saying you have received a new MP but it looks like there is a bug with the url cos instead of opening the url www.lol.com/forum/private.php it tries to open www.lol.com/private.php
I?m pretty sure it comes form the script $pmpopupurl but how can I correct it?

i installed this hack, nice and simple to use great work :)

Thanks for the great hack.

Install Button > Click!

Hi dune,
Did you manage to implement it into this new version - if so, would you be willing to share the mod? Thanks already in advance:)

*installs*

=Mika=

Is it only me that gets a white screen when you mass send?

It would be good to be able to paste in a couple of hundred user names. For example, I did a database search for all the members with more than 4 carriage returns in their signatures and I wanted to PM them all asking them to reduce the size of them.
Also when I did try to PM all my members (over 25,000) it crashed and took the database down. I recommend you put some steps in there to slow it down by putting a pause between each batch of PMs.

Hello Sir ,

When i send to the Mod the message will be sent OK , but when i send to register users there is Blank Page and the messages didn't sent ,

please help why when i send PM Users to register user there is White page,

please help

regards

You know... You guys are full of ish. with your "clicks install" Your telling me it acutally works for you? Your telling me you dont see a white screen for registered users?

Whatever