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!!

[Christie]

Originally Posted by TSR

Hope this is correct in all areas.. Worked for me.

That's how I did it too and it worked for me.

[grains]

This is GREAT! Thank you so much!

[grains]

Just wondering if there was cron information for the bulletin?

[sinner]

Originally Posted by mikelbeck

I've tried to install this a couple of times on my vB and have had the same issues each time:

1 - The install screen shows a bunch of changes that need to be made to code, but has no other text... Anywhere where there should be text is just "I". If I continue on past the install screen, the same thing happens.

2 - The phrases that are inserted have "I" as their text.

3 - The item never shows up on the admin screen menu.

Has anybody else experienced this? How do I fix it? This is on 3.0.7, if that matters.

Screenshots attached...

I'm having this same issue... any thoughts?

[Shaliza]

It'd be great if this worked with 3.5.4

[globalinsites]

Originally Posted by Shaliza

It'd be great if this worked with 3.5.4

I'm hoping it will be available soon too :-)

[oninuva]

i have a problem in commbull.php on line 46

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object

[kyle]

our Community Bulletin is no longer working now that we update to VBulletin vB3.6. is there any known bugs or fixes, seems to be taking up a lot of server resources then stops out. Is their a vB3.6 hack planed?

[noppid]

Originally Posted by kyle

our Community Bulletin is no longer working now that we update to VBulletin vB3.6. is there any known bugs or fixes, seems to be taking up a lot of server resources then stops out. Is their a vB3.6 hack planed?

I have no plans to port this at this time. It's already a piece meal port that is a mess.

However, if I get the chance to see the posted code installed on a 3.6 install and a quick edit will fix it, I will make that type correction and repost.

But since I don't use this code, someone will have to step up and provide me a working example to see what's broke and assess any issues.


EDIT:
Oops, this is posted in the 3.5.x forums already folks.

[Schahab]

Is there a option, that this newsletter ist send out automatic every week for example?