News & Email Community Bulletin Generator

Updated 30 Nov 2001
Fixed a typo and Birthday Date Bug
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Here's a new version of the Community Bulletin + HTML
With the changes and the inclusion of the news section I have
titled it News and Email Community Bulletin Generator.

Here's a list of the changes/modifications that were made

Include News Articles (Threads) in bulletin.
Remove vbCode from news articles before sending email.
User email options include HTML or Text.
Forums are sorted by displayorder.
Category forums do not contain yes/no option.
Private forums marked as no by default.
Fix lasteventdate bug.
Modify admin/index.php installation instructions for version 2.2.x and version 2.0.x.
Include Admin CP edit user option to include Receive Community Email Bulletin and Type (HTML or TEXT).
Remove user password, send link instead.
Preview of HTML and TEXT email.
Post to Forum can be HTML or TEXT
Modified a few mysql SELECT * queries to include only necessary fields.
Cosmetic changes
......

To install
Copy the commbull.php file to the admin/ directory.
WIth a web browser access the commbull.php file.

Example: http: //yoursite.com/forums/admin/commbull.php

Follow the additional installation instructions.

This hack is based on Community Bulletin Generator by Kier
and additional Community Bulletin Generator functions by Kevin

Additional: This hack has only been tested on my machines. I don't have the ability to send emails
to a lot of users so this has not been tested either.

Remember: BACKUP and TEST.
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[NTLDR]

Originally posted by JoshFink
This may be asking too much, but is there a way to get a "Preview HTML" button that would show you what it looked like first?

Thats a good idea Josh, something like the preview buttons for the templates would be good.

[LightBringer]

Christec, any updates on the issues I was having before?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...992#post301992

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...432#post302432

[JoshFink]

NTLDR , thanks for the help. That would be great.

Josh

[groovesalad]

Everything works great, except I'm having one issue. When I try to get the Bulletin to post on my message board in HTML format, the format is really messed up. I thought that maybe it was just posting incorrectly, so I just copied and pasted the HTML from the "Preview" screen before sending out the Newsletter and just pasted that into one of my forums. Still the same problem. I even checked the HTML source and it matched the "Preview" screen. Not sure why it's doing this. I'm almost positive NTLDR can figure this one out

http://groove-salad.com/forum/showth...=&threadid=177

[groovesalad]

When I try to use this, here is what I get as an error

[Sat Oct 19 19:17:10 2002] [error] [client 66.68.71.58] Empty script output

Anyone know what that means?

[NTLDR]

Here we go, the mod for the Preview button for the HTML, note variables like $username are not parsed in the preview.

Find:

PHP Code:

maketableheader("Preview of your TEXT email"); 


Above it add:

PHP Code:

    ?><tr class='firstalt' valign='top'>
        <td><p></p></td><td><p>
        <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
        function displayHTML() {
        var inf = document.name.message.value;
        win = window.open(", ", 'popup', 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes');
        win.document.write("" + inf + "");
        }
        </script>
        <input type='button' value='Preview' accesskey='p' onclick='javascript:displayHTML()'></p></td></tr>
    <?php

Thats it, you then get a preview button right under the HTML text area

Note: vB puts a space between java and script here: onclick='java script:displayHTML It should be javascript, one word

[Littlebit]

Hi NTLDR,
yep...another Netscape java error...I got this script error in my java log from your script add for the preview

Error: missing ; before statement
Source Code:
java script:displayHTML()

Any ideas? I think I'm going to make sure I don't have some weird Java setting messed up in my browser too. :/

[NTLDR]

I've only got IE installed and I'm no Java expert or fan. Does the preview for templates work in the ACP? That is basicly the code from there modified to work with this hack.

[Littlebit]

I got it! it was just being being stubborn over the space between java and script. It works with the space removed.
Man, I've decided that Netscape is way picky with it's code.

I forgot to say thanks for the nifty add

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by Littlebit
It works with the space removed.
Man, I've decided that Netscape is way picky with it's code.

The space isn't meant to be there vB puts it in automatically for security reasons so it wouldn't have worked in any browser.