[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by ArchAngelz

Can you share how the installation instructions should be modified in order to get v4.5 working? It seems that v4.5 may be better than v5.1 and hence, installation instructions for that may be useful.

The modifications above are for 4.5f but shouild work with 5.1.

If you are asking how to install 4.5f, if you have a copy, those versions require either the Zend Optimizer or Ioncube installed on youjr server.

The installations instructions for 4.5f are as follows (from the ReadMe):

ENCODED FILES
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The files in these packages are encrypted to protect the code. You will need to install Zend Optimizer (zend.com) or IonCube (ioncube.com) to make the files work.

INSTALL:
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1. Add Commbull XML Product Plugin
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- Go to your ACP and select "Plugin System -> Manage Products".
- Click "[Add/Import Product]".
- Navagate to the "commbull-product.xml" file included with this installation file and click "Open".
- Then click "Import".


2. File Upload
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- upload all the files in either the upload-IonCube or upload-Zend folders in Binary Mode, depending one which optimizer you have installed. Do not upload the folder itself, but only it's contents to the forum root. I did not make any changes to any of the vB files, so you don't have to worry about any of them being overwritten.

IN BINARY MODE:
---- if you do not upload the files in Binary mode, you will get something that looks like:
Fatal error: Unable to read 42220 bytes in /site/root/forums/admincp/commbull.php on line 0


3. Cronjob
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- A default cron (Sunday at 4am) was added when you imported the Plugin, however it is disabled by default.
- Go into "Scheduled Tasks" -> "Scheduled Task Manager" and edit "commbull_newsletter_send_task" to the desired schedule.

**NOTE: before the cron can run properly, you must "save" the settings necessary to run it on it's own. To do that, you will need to partially start the first run. Go to ./admincp/commbull.php and change all the necessary settings that you wish to run and be sure to select "Save Preferances" near the bottom, otherwise it won't have anything
to run and the cron will fail. If you view the cronlog, and it failed, you will see "Commbull [No Settings Defined! - quitting]".