Miscellaneous Hacks - vBNewsletters

Hey all,

What is vBNewsletters?

It is a simple modification that adds a massive addition to your community! It gives you the ability to add a newsletter to your forum. It not only adds more features to your bulletin board, but can also help boost your member base as many forums find that members enjoy reading the happenings via newsletters.

Features

* Newsletter Page Added - ?do=newsletter
* Newsletter Switch Added
* Newsletter Title and Content Added
* Newsletter Release Date Function Added
* Newsletter Navbar Phrase Added
* HTML Ready
* Version Check Added (vBulletin Version 3.6)

Included in Modification...

* 1 Product
* 1 Template
* 1 Phrase
* 1 Plugin

Support

Support will be given at vBDiscussion.com and in this thread

Installation

Installation takes minutes as the product file does every thing apart from one small template modification which is to place the Newsletter link into your navbar! (This template modification is unneccesary if you have Menu Control installed!)

Thanks,

Marky

[storpappa]

This is a great community - all of the feedback , positive and negative was helpful in looking at this product.

See, I need vbNewsletter - something that gets mailed out, not vbNewsletters - which lets me put letters in words and phrases down at conjunction junction.

I'll pass on this, looking at the paid one who shall not be named. As said earlier, I am looking for something that lets me add a note, but otherwise goes out automatic with site activity information if I dont get around to it. It is all about bringing the users back

[tyler_d]

this sounds like the equivalent of a beefed up news subforum or something... or perhaps just a beefed up equivalent of a collection of announcments posts.

seems pretty useless w/o the email function. anyway, hope it improves

[DieselMinded]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

If this included an option to subscribe for forum members and the ability to send out the newsletter via email, it would be an interesting and useful add-on. As it is, the point of installing it escapes me, frankly.

Im With This Guy Set this up to subscribe and let us set the send date

[Luky]

Originally Posted by Marky

No I didn't include that because you could do it just as easily by manually emailing all your users from the Admin CP

HAHAHAHAHA His question made me laugh and your answer made me rofl. People should really read!! This looks nice, but im afraid i wont use it as i dont know what to write about ^^

[SLY LS1]

Originally Posted by davidw

FYI, to avoid any kind of future confusion, you may want to annotate that dependent on whether or not a member has altered their index.php file (if they are using a CMS such as vbadvanced and have renamed their index.php file to something else) that they will need to use the renamed index.php file in the link.

For example... [as per Step 2]
If Joe Doe's index.php file was renamed to forums.php, then their link would work as such:

<if condition="$vboptions['newsletter_switch']"><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="forums.php?do=newsletter$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[nav_vbnewsletter]</a></td></if>

Ahh you saved me, I was ndering why I couldnt get it to work as i have changed mine to forum.php - all good now cheers

[iogames]

What about 'MailMan'???
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...p?group_id=103

[GFiSH]

This is exactly what I'm after, I'll get it installed soon.

Thanks

[yawsh]

I also though it is sending emails.
This should not be called a newsletter .. there is no meaning of calling it a letter.

Regards

[asasi]

our server limit us to send just 200 emails per hour. can I use your mod to make email sending rate 200 emails/hour ?

thanks

[helalmail]

Is working with vbulletin 4.x