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

[LuBi]

I'd like to see a way to save the setting for bulletins, and also a way to add text or some sort of message to the bulletins which could also be saved.

Also even a custom header and footer would be great. Maybe the header and footer could include some of the oce so we can edit it to our likings and all this could be saved.

[FWC]

Originally posted by christec
There's a new update (first post in thread), it includes Add news articles among others. Let me know what you think.

I installed the upgrade, Christec. It works great. It was really cool getting the email telling me there was an upgrade. Good work!

[Robert Basil]

Originally posted by christec

Did you have the previous version installed? What type of browser are you using?

Nope, this is the first time I have used it. Are there more files than the commbull.php required?

If so I'm going to feel real dumb.

P.S. Thanks for your help!

[LuBi]

Originally posted by Sportbikeworld


Nope, this is the first time I have used it. Are there more files than the commbull.php required?

If so I'm going to feel real dumb.

P.S. Thanks for your help!

I suggest you download it agian. The new version includes the admin cp hack and commbull.php. You just run commbull.php and things should be ok. I don't understand the problem as long as you didn't change anything (ie. it works right out of the box). Goodluck

[christec]

Originally posted by Sportbikeworld
Nope, this is the first time I have used it. Are there more files than the commbull.php required?

Try logging into the admin CP and then try and acess the commbull.php file. Also try and access it through the "Genterate Community Bulletin" link in the admin CP. OK one more, check the actual file permissions to see if they are correct.

[christec]

Originally posted by SirSteve
Excellent additions Christec! Only thing, I would like to see the:
Include Info From Forums...
Include info from the following forums:
to display if it is a category or a forum.

Done! It sorts just like the admin cp modify forums section. It will be in the next release.

[SirSteve]

Originally posted by christec

Done! It sorts just like the admin cp modify forums section. It will be in the next release.

Excellent! Waiting for it impatiently...

[Robert Basil]

Originally posted by christec

Try logging into the admin CP and then try and acess the commbull.php file. Also try and access it through the "Genterate Community Bulletin" link in the admin CP. OK one more, check the actual file permissions to see if they are correct.

Tried that, same error.

I though "what the hell" and tried to install the old "non-html" version.

when I try and access that one I get the error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/admin/www/v2/forums/admin/commbull.php on line 637

I have no idea what is causing the Parse errors as I have changed nothing in either the HTML and non-HTML versions of commbull.php

Oh well, thanks for trying anyway.

[Robert Basil]

I want this hack way too bad to give up now!

I just downloaded the latest zip (The one with the admin_commbull.txt in it).

I also added the

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Send Community Bulletin","commbull.php?action=info","<br>"); 


line to my index.php in my admin directory so I can access it via my admin list.

And when I click on the link I am still getting the dreaded error

Parse error: parse error in /home/admin/www/v2/forums/admin/commbull.php on line 832

I've uploaded the combull.php file in ASCII format, and even tried it in Binary format.

AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Can someone with a line counter tell me what is on line 832 in the commbull.php file so I can take a look myself?

Thanks!

[FWC]

Originally posted by Sportbikeworld
Can someone with a line counter tell me what is on line 832 in the commbull.php file so I can take a look myself?

Thanks!

I only have 604 lines in combull.php. :surprised