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!!

[kall]

Originally Posted by Lionel

The current version works for me on 3.07

And the Events part?

Does that work too?

I ask because it doesn't for me, and I would really like it to.

[Lionel]

I can't say. It's because I don't have any events. Table for that period of time was empty. I just created a special calendar for events and posted in there, so I'll know next week....

[cmiller1014]

Yep calendar events doesnt work for us either. Just added this. I knew we should have waited. Now we have a half working script that is useless and hacked the forum up for nothing.

[cmiller1014]

So what's the deal? How do we make calendar events show up?!? PLEASE!

[cmiller1014]

I will pay for someone to get this working right for me, and to customize it a bit. Please contact me asap: chris@distributortalk.com

We really need to get this working.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If you are offering payment, i suggest you repost your request on the Service Request forum. You will probably get more response from coders if posted there.

[Koutaru]

I just installed it and it works fine (minus the calendar)

One thing: Is there any way to just pull the templates from a current template. I don't want to keep editing the templates over and over with each mailing

[GetGamer.com]

Any suggestions for easily unsubscribing users with bad email addresses? I've got a lot of old user accounts with bad email addresses--about 10% of the membership database. It would be nice to compile a list of known "bad" email addresses and feed it into the database and unsubscribe those members so I don't keep trying to send them the bulletin.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by GetGamer.com

Any suggestions for easily unsubscribing users with bad email addresses? I've got a lot of old user accounts with bad email addresses--about 10% of the membership database. It would be nice to compile a list of known "bad" email addresses and feed it into the database and unsubscribe those members so I don't keep trying to send them the bulletin.

do a search for 'bouncer'. You might be able to tweak that. That was next on my list.

[jzewatsky]

Since the bulletin can be sent out by usergroup, could you create 2 secondary usergroups (send and dont send) and then go through and put the bad e-mails in dont send, the goods in send then set commbull to send to send. I know that it would be a lot of work, member by member, but it would be simple to administer once the grunt work is completed. Good luck!