[RELEASE] Email Notification Hack v0.1

This hack will add a link to the notification emails that are sent out to your users. Clicking on this link will disable email notification for the thread that generated the notification for that user. The hack also shows a small snippet of the new post.

You need to edit your notifyemail template and place something like this in it. Format as you see fit. $snippet is the text from the message.

Text Snippet:
~~~
$snippet
~~~

If you no longer want to receive notification of replies to this thread then please click here:
$bburl/notifyoff.php?threadid=$threadid

edit newreply.php and find:

$toemail=$useremail[email];

Directly after that place:

// Email Notification v0.1 Begin
if (strlen($message) > 160)
{ $snippet = substr($message,0,160) . "(...)";  }
else { $snippet = $message; }
// Email Notification v0.1 End

Change the two instances of 160 in the above code to the number of characters you want your text snippet to be.

Download the hack at http://www.hedgehogwheels.com/forums/notifyoff.php.txt and name it notifyoff.php

I think I am going to turn this into a full fledged email notification hack that has a centralized area to add and remove your subscribed threads and adds an icon to all threads that allows you to quickly subscribe to a thread without posting to it. Don't hold your breath on it though

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-31-2000 at 02:17 AM]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
"/forums/notifyoff.php3?threadid?8"

-- Change the second ? to an = .

Sorry, where?

Sinotto

well it looks like this thread is needed for when i replace v.1.1.5's newreply.php

any changes i need to know about with re-adding this notifyoff hack to v.1.1.5's newreply.php file ?

Originally posted by eva2000
well it looks like this thread is needed for when i replace v.1.1.5's newreply.php

any changes i need to know about with re-adding this notifyoff hack to v.1.1.5's newreply.php file ?

Nope.. Just reinstall it as before.

[Streicher]

How can i make this hack working for vB 2, bceaus i can't find $toemail=$useremail[email]; in newreply.php?

[tubedogg]

This is already in 2.0...?

[Streicher]

Originally posted by tubedogg
This is already in 2.0...?

Yes, the notfication, but not the feature to send the first x characters of the post with the notification.

[kreker]

works with vbb 2.0.1?

[Streicher]

I have found a way. Put the variable $message in the E-Mail Notify Template and the complete message is in the E-Mail.

[theflow]

Originally posted by Essam
An idea for the new version:
In addition to subscribing to threads, what about enabling people to recieve a notification when specific user post a message?

I like this idea a lot. Does anoyone have an idea of how difficult this would be to do?