CommBull (Community Bulletin)

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!!

[welo]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

How about the ability to send a TEST email out?

Assign yourself to your own usergroup, uncheck everyone else, send test email.

[joeychgo]

I guess that would work -- thanks for the idea.

I think I found a bug --- at least I might have --

If I store my CSS as a file - I lose the style in the newsletter -

[grandeur_69]

yea, i actually just discovered that myself ... as 99.9% of the users of vB don't do this, it's not something i was in a rush to fix

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

yea, i actually just discovered that myself ... as 99.9% of the users of vB don't do this, it's not something i was in a rush to fix

I found it cuz im also trying to speed up my board

[welo]

This should help with that.

[futureye]

can any body write here
the modify the profile.php

but the steps are not clear to me
am adminstarting an arabic site
right to left

[grandeur_69]

permanent fix for using css as a file:
in includes/adminfunctions_template.php

find:

if (preg_match('#^<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="(clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-\w{8}-0*' . $styleid . '\.css)" />$#', $csscontents, $match))

replace with:

if (preg_match('#^<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'.$vboptions['bburl'].'/(clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-\w{8}-0*' . $styleid . '\.css)" />$#', $csscontents, $match))

and, find:

$QUERY[] = "css = '" . addslashes("<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\$cssfilename\" />") . "'";

replace with:

$QUERY[] = "css = '" . addslashes("<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"{$vboptions['bburl']}/$cssfilename\" />") . "'";

cheers

[welo]

Tested and confirmed. Thanks man. Works like a charm.

[Toneboy]

Another question (different from my usual, recurring one!), which template do you need to edit to change some of the standard text?

Specifically I want to permanently change the line, "Currently, community updates are sent weekly." to "Currently, community updates are sent monthly."

Thanks.

[grandeur_69]

you'll find all the phrase information in the file commbull_phrases.php