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CommBull (Community Bulletin) · **Released**: 06-19-2004

vb3.5 Commbull
vb3.6 Commbull

Note:
The 3.6 version is a commercial product, any queries on it should be submitted to: vb3.6 Support Site

THIS THREAD IS FOR SUPPORT FOR 3.0 VERSIONS ONLY. PLEASE VISIT THE APPROPRIATE FORUMS (links above) FOR THEIR SUPPORT

[valid point]
it's been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what this is ... fair enough: This hack is considered a "weekly newsletter" by the fact that it will email members (only sent by an admin) who have opted to receive it new posts, hot threads, etc ... basically a summary of what has been going on since the last time the newsletter was sent out. However there is a vast number of options, and I won't go into detail of all of them ... you can view the the images that I've attached, but u will only get a full idea by installing it.
I would say that there is 0 risk of this installation doing any damage to your current install as these are the changes that it does (manually and automatically):
- change profile.php and admincp/index.php
- add a couple columns to user table (receivebulletin and receivebulletin_type)
- add some phrases to phrase table (receive_email_from_commbull, type_email_from_commbull, newsletterformat, commbul)
- add a row to datastore table (commbull)
- add some html to nav template for admin side
So, if you are unhappy with the install. you can just ignore that it's there and it'll never cause any problems ... your next upgrade will overwrite any changes to the index and profile pages and the extra columns in the DB won't be an issue

[mods that i've added from vB2 version]
- to change languages, comment/uncomment line 22 and 23 to switch from English to German
- save prefs (option)
- skip to page X in case of mailout freeze
- auto redirect to next page (option)
- adding personalized text to top of newsletter w/out searching through the two text & html fields ... u'll c what i mean :ermm:

[INSTALL]
drop the 3 files into the admincp directory and then go to admincp/commbull.php ... follow the instructions and you are good to go.
If you find that the option isn't showing up on the control panel after the install, then it's because you aren't using the default phrases. Go into phrase manager, search for 'commbull' and update the fields appropriately.

If something goes wrong, don't worry .. it checks for already completed updates to the database to avoid redundancy ... enjoy!!

memobug · #**282** 03-29-2005, 09:33 PM

I have a bad-email-address usergroup of registered members whose boxes are either bad, or prone to being full or offline.

Maybe you could tweak the commbull to mail from a NOREPLY@YOURDOMAIN.COM and include a real address in the message body.

Regards,

Matt

cmiller1014 · #**283** 03-30-2005, 04:37 AM

Can we just pull hacks that arent supported anymore? Its rediculous to put people through this crap/

Lionel · #**284** 03-30-2005, 04:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DistributorTalk

Can we just pull hacks that arent supported anymore? Its rediculous to put people through this crap/

What for? This hack is useful to most, including me. I just do without the events, that's all. I understand they are important to you, but they are not to all.

cmiller1014 · #**285** 03-30-2005, 04:48 AM

It's just important to me that a modification work the way it says it will work. This site is a mess because of hacks like this one where people post a million times asking for help and the original poster never responds.

memobug · #**286** 03-30-2005, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DistributorTalk

It's just important to me that a modification work the way it says it will work. This site is a mess because of hacks like this one where people post a million times asking for help and the original poster never responds.

This mod works exactly as described. It was written for 3.0.1, as it states. 3.0.1 had an entirely different way of storing dates and events.

I hacked it up again for 3.0.3 to fix the events, but I have no idea my modifications work for 3.0.6-7-9 but I documented and offered it to people.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=128

I really hope people won't be cursing my name if it doesn't work in some future version of vB that no-one could have forseen! I would not be surprised if that is why people are less inclined to support hacks.

Regards,

Matt

HellRazor · #**287** 03-31-2005, 03:14 AM

Would it be possible just to post the v3.0.1 -> v3.0.3 instructions here so everyone can have them?

RichieBoy67 · #**288** 04-01-2005, 02:37 AM

Great!!! I love this hack...... Thanks for doing it...

johnbruce71 · #**289** 04-04-2005, 09:57 PM

Cheers fella, Works a treat

Trent · #**290** 04-13-2005, 02:38 AM

Hey guys,

I've installed everything as per the instructions, and it works great. I have one small problem though, for some reason the Control Panel isn't fully displaying the link for Community Bulletin, i have attached an image to show you what i mean.. Under the "Access Masks" you can see the next half box is highlighted, this is the Commbull link and it works if i click the top edget of the box.. as other users will be sending out bulletins i want to try fix it up.. any ideas whats wrong?

Lionel · #**291** 04-13-2005, 02:40 AM

go to your phrases, select any one and click "Update"

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