Miscellaneous Hacks - Instant New Thread Notification

= New Thread Notification =

Description

Very simple, it adds instant email notification for forums. If you are subscribed to a forum using instant email notification, whenever a new thread is posted you will be sent an email containing the details and the thread text.


Options: (AdminCP > vBulletin Options > New Thread Notification)

Enable new thread notifications?
Choose Yes to enable instant email notification for new threads.

Allow new thread notification for Usergroups:
Enter the IDs of the usergroups you want to allow to subscribe to instant new thread email notifications, separated by commas. (i.e. 1,2,3)

If you only want to exclude usergroups instead of including them, leave this blank to allow everyone to subscribe to instant new thread notifications except those listed below.

Do NOT allow new thread notification for Usergroups:
Enter the IDs of the usergroups you want to exclude from subscribing to instant new thread email notifications, separated by commas. (i.e. 1,2,3) Leave blank to not exclude usergroups.

Allow new thread notification for Forums:
Enter the IDs of the forums you want to allow subscribing to instant new thread email notifications, separated by commas. (i.e. 1,2,3)

If you only want to exclude forums instead of including them, leave this blank to allow instant new thread notifications in every forum except those listed below.

Do NOT allow new thread notification for Forums:
Enter the IDs of the forums you want to exclude from subscribing to instant new thread email notifications, separated by commas. (i.e. 1,2,3) Leave blank to not exclude forums.

Use mailqueue?
Choose Yes for new thread notifications to use mailqueueing as per your settings (Recommended for all except very low traffic forums). Choosing No will bypass mailqueueing and send all emails instantly.


Installation Instructions:
1. Go to AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product.
2. Upload the new_thread_subscription_xxx.xml file.
Done!

To subscribe to new thread notifications just subscribe to a forum as normal. The new option has been added to the list.


Donations

If you have a pressing wish to donate money to me (and of course, you do) to say thank you and to possibly encourage more future work then you can do via the link below. Also, you will go to heaven.

http://redtyger.co.uk/donations.php

Don't panic! The donations link is only hosted on my website so it can be encrypted and not open my email address to spammers.


Changelog
v1.00 Initial release
v1.01 Fixed bug where Instant Email Subscription would appear twice.
v1.02 Fixed bug where a database error would occur when nobody is subscribed to the forum the thread is being posted in.

[bendingpixels]

I figured this out BTW, it was total administrator error on my part. I had moved my forum to a new directory, and forgot to change one of the VB options referring back to the old directory. changed the option,and now this mod is working great for me!

rob

Originally Posted by bendingpixels

Hi, I just installed this on my 3.7 board. it sent out an instant notification just fine BUT the link to the thread sent out in the email produces a 404 error.

Has anyone else encountered this?

thanks

[sqzdog]

I have a forum with about 150 members. Is there a script I can run after I install this that will subscribe all members to all forums for instant email notification?

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

Are you upgrading this for 3.7? Its a much wanted feature on my forum

This works on 3.7, or it did for me, without problems.

[boarddoc]

Does this work with Project Tools? Since the threads have the links /project.php?projectid=xx I am wondering if the code accommodates this.

[leitel]

It seems that with this script only works on forums that are not moderated. It would seem possible to fire this plugin off AFTER a thread has been validated by a moderator.
I also use a hack that requires moderation of a new users' first post. Users are spared much spam as a result. Only problem is that forum subscribers DO NOT receive email notification IF the thread was moderated.
Am I missing something here? If this is the current behavior, is there a workaround?

[tonkaa]

I have a huge problem that i really wanna have help with to solve. This script is awsome and thenak u for this but now i have a major problem at my site. I have paid subscriptions for some forumareas at my site and the payers will have a mail notification as soon our betting experts put up a pick on the forum. That works fine. But if the subscription has run put of time and our users goes back to normal member again they still get mail but we don´t wnt them getting anyone. Please help!

[Bill Bickley]

Exactly what I was looking for, but no emails are received. I do see the instant notification option when subscribing to a forum (not there without the mod).

Just no emails.

Thoughts?

[Videx]

Do you get emails for regular subscriptions?

[Bill Bickley]

Yep, and I get my copy of broadcast emails sent via the "email users" function.

Bill

Update:

It appears my regular subscription email notifications are NOT coming through as they should, or at least not reliably. I ran the email diagnostic, and that test email came through just fine.

For the moment, I'm stuck as to what to try next.

Bill

[snoopy5]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

Hi

I installed this hack, but it does not work. The suer can susbscribe to the forum with instant notification, but when I start a new thread with another user, no e-mail notification is sent out.

The usergroup is enabled and the forum too. E-mail address is correct. The moderator gets also the posting, so no issue of the mail server.

vb 3.68

Any ideas why this does not work?

o.k. I tried it again and I found the bug. The plugin works fine as long as you do not retsrict this fetaure for a specific usergroup.

In ACP/vboptions/newtheradnotification/

There is the option:

Allow new thread notification for Usergroups:

As soon as you type in teher a usergroup ID, it does not work anymore. The suer of the usergroup can enable the instant notification of that forum, but no e-mail arrives. No matter which usergroup I put in ther for testing, it just does not send e-mail out.

As soon as I leave that field blank, it works.

So this is really sad. This plugin makes the most sense, if you can offer it for a premium usergroup only, so that they support you with paypal subscriptions to get this feature.

If only everybody can use it, it would be almost useless for me. I need ideas to finance my board.

So how can I fix this bug?

(vb 3.7.3 PL1)