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!!

[grandeur_69]

thank you. appologies.

yes, it will work on previous versions starting at 3.5.0 ... i have some old forums that i will double-check if you are interested.

[navjotjsingh]

Fatal error: Unable to read 41812 bytes in /home/exguides/public_html/career/admincp/commbull.php on line 0

How to sort out this error? I am on vb 3.6.
BTW my commbull.php is of 44,122 bytes

[arossphoto]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

thank you. appologies.

yes, it will work on previous versions starting at 3.5.0 ... i have some old forums that i will double-check if you are interested.

I'm still using commbull with 3.5.4, so I'd also be interested in knowing if the new version will work. Thanks.

[grandeur_69]

yes, this will work with 3.5.4 ...

navjotjsingh: to fix that error, you need to upload the files in binary mode

[navjotjsingh]

But I don't have access to php.ini file...I am on a shared hosting.

[grandeur_69]

hmmm, something else i thought of ... make sure that when you upload the files that you are uploading them in binary (not ASCII) ... most ftp programs figure it out on their own ... but not all.

[navjotjsingh]

After uploading them in binary mode..new error:

Warning: main(./admincp/commbull_phrases.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/commbull.php on line 66

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './admincp/commbull_phrases.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/exguides/public_html/career/admincp/commbull.php on line 66

[grandeur_69]

yea, that's my bad ...

anyone that is installing this as a fresh version, i forgot to include commbull_phrases.php (goes in ./admincp/) ... i have added this to the downloadable files above ... i also have a german version, if requested.

[GNDI]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

What is ZendMinimizer?? i'm not clear on the conflicts you are refering to GNDI ... ?

ZendMinimizer = ZendOptimizer Like you say Bill($)dows about windows

but ZendOptimizer and the pecl-APC php casche doesn't work together

[GNDI]

Originally Posted by navjotjsingh

But I don't have access to php.ini file...I am on a shared hosting.

you can add

php_value memory_limit 24M

to you .httaccess file, this will SOMETIMES overright the default settings.
You can change the value of 24M to whatever you like.

If the .htaccess method does not work or if you get an internal server error after adding this line, remove the line from the .htaccess again. You can also try to change the memory_limit by adding the following line right after '<?php ' in global.php

ini_set("memory_limit","32M");