Community Bulletin Email Generator + HTML

First off this is Kier's hack and it's a great one. There are other contributors like tubedog.

Update 16-Nov-2001:
Include News Article(s) in bulletin
Optional - Add "Receive Community Email Bulliten" option to the admin CP. When editing a user you can turn on and off the bulletin.
Fixed lasteventdate bug

These changes are based on version 0.98
Changes/Additions
Preview includes html tags
Email is sent in an HTML format
Post to thread is HTML
Updated install to include changes for vBulletin v2.2
Private Forums marked No by default (if accessmask is ON)
Password removed - Link to Forgot your password added

Installation is still the same. If you already have commbull.php installed you can just copy this file to the same location.

(I'm not trying to take any credit for this hack. Just share the modifications that I made.)
Always backup and test.
CC

[christec]

Copy the commbull.php file to your forums/admin directory.

Access the commbull.php file through a web browser
http://www. yoursite.com/forums/admin/commbull.php

It will show the install instructions

[cyrus]

thanks
done
like it
BUT

To unsubscribe from the Community Bulletin Email, click unsubscribe. In the user control panel change "Recive Community Bulletin Email" from yes, to no.

typo : receive

thanks

[aldamon]

WOW! Thanks! I swear we get some truly amazing results on this board when more than one person works on a hack!

[RobAC]

I received the following error when I set it to send out emails to 1000 users at a time:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /pathway/commbull.php(692) : eval()'d code on line 484

It sent out 800 emails and then quit. I have no way of emailing the rest of my members from that point on.

[christec]

1000 email at once, ( )

Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

You received this error because it took longer that 30 seconds to process this script and email.

In the php.ini file there is a max_execution_time = 30 (limit in seconds).
You can increase the time limit to something higher.

[RobAC]

Yeah I realized that afterwards. I'm curious....how would AOL users receive the Community Bulletin with the HTML code in it?

[tamarian]

Great hack Christec!

Any thoughts of setting an option for Txt vs Html for members' options?

[FWC]

Originally posted by RobAC
Yeah I realized that afterwards. I'm curious....how would AOL users receive the Community Bulletin with the HTML code in it?

Works fine with AOL users. I've tried it.

[Prince]

When you edit a user's profile in the CP the "Receive Community Bulletin Email?" field is not there.

[christec]

In the install instructions you will see this (add this field to the users cp)

modifyoptions template
You will need to add this code to an appropriate place in your modifyoptions template:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Receive Community Bulletin Email?</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont>
<input type="radio" name="receivebulletin" value="yes"$receivebulletinchecked> Yes
<input type="radio" name="receivebulletin" value="no"$receivebulletinnotchecked> No
</normalfont></td>
</tr>