Instant Email Notification - Client Side

[sarahk]

We've got ezmlm on our site so I put a mod into the control panel to assist people to sign up to a mailer. Then I added that mailer to the forum settings to receive notification whenever someone posts or starts a thread. The VB side is easy, the mailer may not be.

[MJM]

sarahk, we've got ezmlm too, though we've never used it, but this sounds like an interesting approach to enabling members to receive all posts of a forum.

Are you doing this as per forum or per group of forums?
If you have any tips on setting this up, let me know!
I would have to pass this job over to my partner.

Thanks, Mark

[sarahk]

It was already setup so I can't shed any light on that process. Because we store the names in a database I was able to check if the email was there, and if not allow them to send the subscribe/unsubscribe email. Here is the addition to profile.php

PHP Code:

// ## SK: Start Extra Profile Page - by Sarah King ##
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'editmaillist')
{
    // makes the user cp nav look correct
    construct_usercp_nav('editmaillist');
    
    // sets the area discription, feel free to change
    $navbits[''] = "Manage Automatic Emails";
    // sets template name to be called when the action is preformed
    $templatename = 'MAILLIST';
    // sets shell template
    $shelltemplatename = 'USERCP_SHELL';
    
    
    $emailaddressq = mysql_escape_string($bbuserinfo['email']);
    
    $mlsql = "SELECT `address` FROM ezmlm.tablelist WHERE `address`='$emailaddressq' limit 0,1";
    $result = mysql_query($mlsql) or die(mysql_error().'<br>'. $mlsql);
    $subscribed = ($result && mysql_fetch_row($result));
    if ($subscribed) {
        $emailliststatus ='Subscribed';
        $emailnewstatus = 'unsubscribe';
        $emaillistnexturl = 'removemaillist';
    }
    else
    {
        $emailliststatus ='Unsubscribed';
        $emailnewstatus = 'subscribe';
        $emaillistnexturl = 'addmaillist';
    }

}
// this is so that when a user saves their info it does get saved
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'addmaillist')
{ 

    mail('listname-subscribe@mysite.com', '', '', 
        "From: {$bbuserinfo['email']}\nReturn-path: {$bbuserinfo['email']}");
    
    // makes the user cp nav look correct
    construct_usercp_nav('addmaillist');
    
    // sets the area discription, feel free to change
    $navbits[''] = "Manage Automatic Emails";
    // sets template name to be called when the action is preformed
    $templatename = 'MAILLISTCHANGE';
    // sets shell template
    $shelltemplatename = 'USERCP_SHELL';
    $emailnewstatus = 'subscribe to';
    $emailextra = "<b>A confirmation message has now been sent to {$bbuserinfo['email']}.</b><br><br>
To confirm your subscription, simply reply to that email.<p>"
}//if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'addmaillist')

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'removemaillist')
{ 

    mail('listname-unsubscribe@mysite.com', '', '', 
        "From: {$bbuserinfo['email']}\nReturn-path: {$bbuserinfo['email']}");


    // makes the user cp nav look correct
    construct_usercp_nav('removemaillist');
    
    // sets the area discription, feel free to change
    $navbits[''] = "Manage Automatic Emails";
    // sets template name to be called when the action is preformed
    $templatename = 'MAILLISTCHANGE';
    // sets shell template
    $shelltemplatename = 'USERCP_SHELL';
    $emailnewstatus = 'unsubscribe from';
}//if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'removemaillist')
// ## SK: End Extra Profile Page - by Sarah King ##
// ## ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ##