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.
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[Prince]

Yes, it worked perfectly for me!

[Steve Machol]

It was a file permission problem for me. Once I chmod'd it, it worked perfectly!

[DarkReaper]

To make excluding forums easier, would it be possible to have the forums shown in a hierarchial view, instead of a straight down list?

[Littlebit]

Installed great! But how did you get it readable for aol users in html? I'm using my aol browser and it's not converting for me. What's the trick?
Nice hack btw
Could there be an easy way to put a send as text option if I can't get it to work with aol?

[christec]

Bug:
All calendar events on the same day are not being displayed in the community bulletin email.

To fix the bug
Find This:

PHP Code:

while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
     if ($event[eventdate] != $lastdate) { 


Replace With this:

PHP Code:

while ($event = $DB_site->fetch_array($events)) {
     if ($event[eventdate] != $lasteventdate) { 


[Littlebit]

I thought I read that it worked fine for one of you guys using +html with AOL users. It's not working fine on my end and I would love to be able to just make some alterations rather then uninstall it all together.
Can anyone help me out with getting the html mailings to work with AOL? :?:
Thanks!
P.S. Christec...thanks for the bug fix!

[christec]

Can you send me a copy of the html email.
elric_red@hotmail.com

[Littlebit]

you have mail....its in need of modifications for AOL users to not see the html code...I just don't know how

[christec]

Here is a link that talks about AOL email client programs.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt6/email-client-summary.htm
AOL version 4.0 and 5.0 do not support HTML
AOL version 6.0 only supports standard HTML

You can try upgrading AOL to the latest version 7.0 (I think)

The original Community Bulletin Email Generator outputs its data in text format.

You can get that here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=16290

[christec]

For those of you who need both text and html here's a thought.
You can install the original Community Bulletin Generator and the HTML version. Just rename the html version to something other the commbull.php like html_commbull.php. You will also need to modify the admin/index.php file to include a link to generate both versions. Now you can send both version by using the same input data. Of course you will have to fill out both forms.

I have not tested this yet. It's just a thought.