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A few have requested this, me especially so i made it.

What it does: Emails all those who have subscribed to a forum an email telling them about a new thread.

Extra queries: 1 upon every new thread. Extra time processing new threads as emails must be sent.

code changes, 1 in newthread.php and 2 new templates.

CODE CHANGE:

Add:

PHP Code:


			
// This emails a new thread notification to those subscribed to the forum

    if ($enableemail) {

      // do emails



      $useremails=$DB_site->query("SELECT user.*

                                   FROM subscribeforum,user

                                   WHERE subscribeforum.forumid='$forumid'

                                     AND subscribeforum.userid=user.userid

                                     AND user.userid<>'$bbuserinfo[userid]'

                                    ");



              $toemail=$val;

              $forumtitle = $foruminfo['title'];

              $threadinfo['title'] = $subject;



      $bbuserinfo['username']=unhtmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo['username']);

      while ($touser=$DB_site->fetch_array($useremails)) {

        $touser['username']=unhtmlspecialchars($touser['username']);



        eval("\$emailmsg = \"".gettemplate("email_newthread",1,0)."\";");

        eval("\$emailsubject = \"".gettemplate("email_newthreadsubject",1,0)."\";");



        mail($touser[email],$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");

      }

}

below the section //send email to moderators which ends with

}
}
}
}

add two templates:

i) email_newthread

Code:

Hello $touser[username],

$bbuserinfo[username] has just started a new thread: in $foruminfo[title]
This is a forum you have subscribed to at $bbtitle

The thread title is: $threadinfo[title] 
This thread is located at:
$bburl/showthread.php?threadid=$threadid&goto=newpost

Yours,
$bbtitle team

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unsubscription information:

You are receiving these "new thread" notifications because 
you are subscribed to the $foruminfo[title] forum. 

To unsubscribe, please visit:
$bburl/usercp.php

and secondly

email_newthreadsubject

Code:

New Thread in $foruminfo[title]

any you are away

#22 10-17-2001, 09:39 AM

As stated in the subject I would like to implement this hack but my 2.0.3 vBulletin newthread.php does not contain the line:-

// send email to moderators

here is the listing of my newthread.php (this is the original one I got with my vBulletin package as far as I am aware):-

{htmldoctype}
<html>
<head>
<title>$bbtitle - Post New Thread</title>
$headinclude

<script language="javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
$header


<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
<td width="100%">$navbar</td>
</tr>
</table>


$postpreview

<br>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="newthread.php" method="POST" name="vbform" onSubmit="return validate(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="forumid" value="$forumid">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="postthread">

<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="2"><normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}" class="thtcolor"><b>Post New Thread</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
$logincode
<tr bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}">
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Subject: </b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="subject" value="$subject" size="40" maxlength="85" tabindex="1"></normalfont></td>
</tr>
$posticons
$vbcode_buttons
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" valign="top" nowrap><normalfont><b>Message:</b></normalfont>
<p><smallfont>
See Forum Rules (below) for<br>
more information about what<br>
codes you are allowed to use<br>
in your posts.
</smallfont></p>
$vbcode_smilies</td>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td><textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="$textareacols" wrap="virtual" tabindex="2">$message</textarea><br>
<smallfont><a href="javascript:checklength(document.vbform);">[check message length]</a></smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" valign="top"><normalfont><b>Options:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" valign="top"><smallfont>
<input type="checkbox" name="parseurl" value="yes" $parseurlchecked> <b>Automatically parse URLs:</b> automatically adds and around internet addresses.
<br><input type="checkbox" name="email" value="yes" $emailchecked> <b>Email Notification:</b> emails sent to you whenever someone replies. Only registered users are eligible.
$disablesmiliesoption
<br><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="yes" $signaturechecked> <b>Show Signature:</b> include your profile signature. Only registered users may have signatures.
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
$attachmentoption
$postpolloption
</table>
</td></tr></table>

<br>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center"><normalfont>
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Submit New Thread" accesskey="s" tabindex="3">
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="preview" value="Preview Post" accesskey="p" tabindex="4">

</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

</form>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
<td><smallfont><b>Forum Rules:</b><br>$forumrules</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer

</body>
</html>

#23 10-17-2001, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by chrispadfield
mail($touser[email],$emailsubject,$emailmsg,"From: \"$bbtitle Mailer\" <$webmasteremail>");

is the line that generates that and it is copied straight from the newreply.php code (which is where most of this code came from). I can't see how it can work in one place and not the other. sorry, not a clue.

Hi Chris,

this is a wonderful bit of code, thanks so much.

I too have the problem where the template's use of the $bbtitle varialbe works fine, but when my email is received the "from" field is blank.

I'm new to PHP3 and scripts (groan...i'll let ya

), but I see identical code in Newreply.php3 and that seems to work fine?

Thanks again.

webhost · #24 10-17-2001, 02:27 PM

Fred Manteghian

install Chris's code then make the change in Stasik post and then delete this template

email_newthreadsubject

webhost · #25 10-22-2001, 07:29 PM

Seen a couple of people asking about this, so I figured I would bump it up again.

chrispadfield · #26 10-22-2001, 09:12 PM

p.s. a word of warning with this hack, if you have very busy forums don't install it

This is because if, say you had 500 people subscribed to a forum then ever new thread they are going to get an email, this will slow down newticket creation quite a lot.

Eventually, i am going to be working on a proper system that sends emails after a delayed period so your users do not notice it.

claytonp · #27 10-23-2001, 07:44 AM

Hello Chris,

Many thanks for the advice concerning the large number of users on the forum, I finally got the hack to work.
Just to give you a little bit of background: We have set up a forum for Urgent problems - so rather than worry about my email distribution list, all I have to do now is post a message on the forum and those people who have registered will now receive the email - great.
However, if I then want to post a "followup" message to say that everything is OK, I would then POST REPLY which would contain the appropriate message, but this is NOT emailed to the registered users.

Is there a hack around this - is it the file newreply.php ?

Please help, because we need to get this up and running as soon as possible.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

chrispadfield · #28 10-23-2001, 08:49 AM

you mean you want everyone to get ever reply or just your replies? it requries some hacking of reply.php but I don't think it exists of yet.

claytonp · #29 10-23-2001, 10:01 AM

Hello Chris,

Many thanks for your reply. In this case I would want the following:

For ALL post replies in the forum, EVERYBODY (who has subscribed to that forum) would be notified via email.

As I said, this forum is for Urgent issues and we need to keep customers informed of every development.

Hope this helps.

WizyWyg · #30 11-14-2001, 01:50 AM

Could someone show me a working example cause I haven't been able to get this to work or pass along their modified php files to get this to work?

I get no emails whatsoever on anything being posted to any forum Im subscribed to.

Can you also repost the code in its entirety correctly with all "corrections' included along with any new templates?

Does this work for 2.2.0 as well?

chrispadfield · #31 11-15-2001, 09:08 AM

- I have not tested it on 2.2
- Remember when testing it that it will not send you notifications if you are the one that started the thread, you need to test with 2 people.
- You can not distribute it as a hacked file if you got it to work.

When i do the almighty upgrade to 2.2 I will revisit the hack.

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