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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[FWC]

Originally posted by aldamon
When I change the value in "Number of threads to include in this block" it always generates 5 events in the e-mail. Has anyone successfully changed the value to something other than 5?

Yes. I've done 10 and 3 also with no problem. I've also changed the number of polls successfully.

[christec]

Which option(s) are you selecting/having trouble with
Most recently posted.
Most number of replies.
Most number of views.
No replies posted.

[LuBi]

Before i install this on my 2.2 forum I just want to know if the First post with the download has been updated since all these bug fixes? Also does the first post include the User CP addon that was posted a bit after the first post? Thanks!

[christec]

Nope

[LuBi]

When I run my forum bulletin generator and make it post to a forum it doesn't post the title. I also use a Show title last post thread, I don't know which one causes the problem. I also think it might be because the parent forum does not use html yet the child forum "newsletter" does. So any ideas would be great. Below is a picture of what it looks like after I send a newsletter/bulletin.



Thanks!

*FIXED - I was using PPN's thread title script and I uninstalled it and am using another thread title script which works great and now the problem is fixed.

[LuBi]

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[pdonovan]

Could someone kindly explain, in terms understandable to a more general audience, just what the Community Bulletin generator does?

I'm interested in adding an option to my registration options where a user can opt into (and out of) an ezine, preferably in either text or html format. Will this Community Bulletin Generator do that?

thanks

[LuBi]

Originally posted by pdonovan
Could someone kindly explain, in terms understandable to a more general audience, just what the Community Bulletin generator does?

I'm interested in adding an option to my registration options where a user can opt into (and out of) an ezine, preferably in either text or html format. Will this Community Bulletin Generator do that?

thanks

I'm going to use it to contact all of my members and keep more of them active. Basically it sends stats on your forum and other good information.

I wish that it had somewhere to type messages or something. (not in the prview box)

I also wich there was a way to save your settings.

[tamarian]

Originally posted by pdonovan
Could someone kindly explain, in terms understandable to a more general audience, just what the Community Bulletin generator does?

It sends an email to members with the lates threads, most popular threads, and list of Polls and birthdays. Kind of a "community update". It also gives you the option to post the email to a forum. To see an example, here's our last week update, posted:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthrea...threadid=25201

[Robert Basil]

I would LOVE to use this hack for our community. But I seem to be having a problem.

I uploaded the commbull.php to my forums admin directory. When I tried to access it I get this error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/admin/www/v2/forums/admin/commbull.php on line 800

Running VB 2.2.0

Any ideas?