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
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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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[Essamz]

anybody tried it with 2.2.4?
I can't make it to work, everytime I click on preview, it stays forever, and then the server times out

[FWC]

Originally posted by Essamz
anybody tried it with 2.2.4?
I can't make it to work, everytime I click on preview, it stays forever, and then the server times out

We just sent one out tonight with 2.2.4 and it worked.

[boatdesign]

I would like to use this mod to send an email to users who have not posted in the last x days, for example those who have not posted in the last two weeks. Is this possible?

[boatdesign]

OK it looks like the easiest way to do this is to create a new user group like "members-inactive", move the members who have not posted or visited in a while to that group, and then send to that group only.

Then I can manually move people between groups if they do visit or as new people become members of the inactive group.

I figure there's no point in emailing people the new topics if they're visiting my forum everyday or every couple of days anyway.

Very nice mod BTW.

[boatdesign]

Another thing which would be nice would be to have a (View) link next to calendar events linked to the detailed event info.

[Scrooge]

This is working great for me and I absolutely love it! I do have a problem though. For some reason my dates are screwed up. For example, the "Most Recent Threads" section is sending out threads with a date in 2003!? I viewed those threads and the dates are actually in 2001. Any ideas?

[Scrooge]

A little more info on this that I got from staring at the email I sent myself. It seems that the dates that are getting screwed up depend on the date of the last reply in a thread. If the last reply was at the end of the month then the date of the thread starting is messed up. Here is what I am getting:

If the last reply was 10-31-2001 then the original thread is change to 7-10-2003.

Last reply of 8-31-2001 changes to 7-8-2003, 7-31-01 to 7-7-03, 7-30-01 to 7-06-2003, 5-31-01 to 7-5-03, 3-31-01 to 7-03-03, etc. See the pattern?

If the day of the last reply is the 30th it changes the month of the starting thread to June. For example, last reply on 10-30-01 changes the starting date to 6-10-03.

I'm confused, are you?

[Dan Flynn]

I have the date problem also. my says 1938????? Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Scrooge]

I found it Mine is because I originally had UBB. I found the fix in the old version of this program. It is at

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=&pagenumber=2

Look for the post by Prince with a fix for the dates.

[Dan Flynn]

Thankss,

When I tried it I got a 404 page. I made the file as directed and put it in the admin file.

http://www.mydomain.com/admin/fixubbdate.php I do get the page that says if you backed up proceed. When I click that link I get the 404 and the address I get sent too is http://www.powerwashnetwork.com/admi...tion=doconvert

Any ideas ?