Send PMs (automatically)

[mferguson]

Are you wanting to bulk email members based on a cron? If so the only thing I believe you need to do would be to figure out what you needed to populate when the cron is run (ie - subject, body, etc.)

Mark

[Blaine0002]

no, only want it to send 2 pms, but its not sending any, and the cron IS being run correctly.

[mferguson]

I guess I'm confused as to why you are doing this with a cron. If you can provide some background it will give me a better idea of how it might be done.

As to the cron itself. How are you verifying that it is being run correctly? Is there some type of output being generated?

Thanks

Mark

[Blaine0002]

in my auction modification, a cron runs every 10 minutes which closes auctions and notifies buyer and seller of who won.

[paul41598]

Um I have the below code in a cron job, and when it runs Im getting this error:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_pm in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758 


      // Fetch the PM message  
	if ($vbulletin->options['ptp_pm_on_off'] == '1') 
	{
		     $ptp_pm =
          construct_phrase(
            $vbphrase['ptp_alertpm'],
            $pquery['username'],
          );
      
      // Send a PM to user(s)
      $pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
      $pmdm->set('fromuserid', 6);
      $pmdm->set('fromusername', 'JonB');
      $pmdm->set('title', 'Crap');
      $pmdm->overridequota = true; 
      $pmdm->set('message', 'test');
      $pmdm->set_recipients($pquery['username'], $botpermissions);
      $pmdm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
      $pmdm->save();
	}

Whats wrong here? I think it worked before now all of a sudden doesnt... (I think) :cross-eyed:

[jwocky]

Originally Posted by paul41598

Um I have the below code in a cron job, and when it runs Im getting this error:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_pm in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758 


      // Fetch the PM message  
	if ($vbulletin->options['ptp_pm_on_off'] == '1') 
	{
		     $ptp_pm =
          construct_phrase(
            $vbphrase['ptp_alertpm'],
            $pquery['username'],
          );
      
      // Send a PM to user(s)
      $pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
      $pmdm->set('fromuserid', 6);
      $pmdm->set('fromusername', 'JonB');
      $pmdm->set('title', 'Crap');
      $pmdm->overridequota = true; 
      $pmdm->set('message', 'test');
      $pmdm->set_recipients($pquery['username'], $botpermissions);
      $pmdm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
      $pmdm->save();
	}

Whats wrong here? I think it worked before now all of a sudden doesnt... (I think) :cross-eyed:

Wow, i'm having the identical error message which just started today as well, I wonder whats going on here... and I mean identical Is there a way to get the script to echo the error? return $pmdm->errors; ? I have that in my cron script, but when i run it in the task manager i get no text echoed, maybee another way so that we can diagnose this problem

[Blaine0002]

PHP Code:

echo $pmdm->errors; 


When i did a cron i actually made a seperate function and ran the function from the cron.

[jwocky]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

PHP Code:

echo $pmdm->errors; 


When i did a cron i actually made a seperate function and ran the function from the cron.

That just prints out the word "Array" .. dont know how to parse that pmdm->errors to give us some valuable data on diagnosing the problem

[paul41598]

actually if I take out the PM datamanager code temporarily...and replace with this:

      $pmto_users[] = $pquery['username'];

      $pmtousernames = implode(';', $pmto_users); 
 			echo "$pmtousernames";

I get CMUrickCMUrick;Pepsico

Its printing out CMUrick twice and I have no idea why. But its working kinda...

jwocky: You need the code in this post I think to grab names and put em in an array, then you will get a different output in your tests.

[jwocky]

Originally Posted by paul41598

actually if I take out the PM datamanager code temporarily...and replace with this:

      $pmto_users[] = $pquery['username'];

      $pmtousernames = implode(';', $pmto_users); 
 			echo "$pmtousernames";

I get CMUrickCMUrick;Pepsico

Its printing out CMUrick twice and I have no idea why. But its working kinda...

jwocky: You need the code in this post I think to grab names and put em in an array, then you will get a different output in your tests.

Ok, i imploded the array $pmdm->errors in the same way you did above and got it to spit out the error code, turns out in my case, the user set to recieve the PM had his inbox full! argh.