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!!

[GNDI]

is the updated one added to this thread, or what link does we have to use to find it

[grandeur_69]

sorry ... yea, i wasn't very clear. I haven't added the link yet because i have some final touches that needed to be added to make it user friendly ... right now it's not as easy to install. I hope by the beginning of next week it will be ready.

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

uh, that is really great! Did you add any new features? Does it now runs via cron?!

Ah, and can you also offer a Ioncube Version?!

Tobi

[Neutral Singh]

Woohooooooo!! I will buy two licenses first thing up!! when are you are releasing the beta... plz plz plz

[GNDI]

I'll buy one as soon it is intergrated to the VBadmin and you don't need zendMinimizer since it does work very well together with pecl-APC wich make vb pretty fast it also need to run by cron or atleast vbcron

[grandeur_69]

yes, it will have a cron option installed by default (but disabled so that you can change the frequency ... least that's the plan - i haven't checked if i can have it disabled by default, so it may require to manually add the cron). What is ZendMinimizer?? i'm not clear on the conflicts you are refering to GNDI ... ?

[grandeur_69]

ps - someone mentioned something about using ioncube ... not sure if it's in the budget right away as it's $200 US ... but, if it is popular enough, then i will.

[grandeur_69]

I am it installed on 4 forums all running 3.6.1 ... the crons are all set up to run this weekend under various test conditions. If it is successful, then expect it to become available on Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

[offline]

Does the new 3.6.1 version work with 3.5.4?

[Paul M]

Please note that promotion of the paid version for 3.6 is not permitted in this thread, or on vb.org in general. You are permitted to link to it in a manner we consider is non promotional, as such, the single link in the first post has been left.