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Hiyas,
What does it do? With this hack, your board will have "HTML email" feature. How does it work? After applying the hack, your users will be able to choose whether they want PLAIN TEXT emails or HTML messages and mails originated from your site will be sent accordingly. (At the moment works for PM and email notification mails). Your existing users who didnt change their mail settings will recieve the original plain texts mails, while users who asked for HTML mails will get mails in HTML format. All users can anytime change their mail settings inside User CP or by calling the new 2 links with one click that comes with the hack and update member's mail type. What versions of vbulletin does it work with? Hack tested with version 2.2.2, 2.2.6, 2.2.8 and 2.2.9 but I believe it will work with any versions > 2.0.3. Any Screenshots? See the message below Planned Future Features: * Hack will apply to ALL mails originated from your board (At the moment it is for PM and email notification mails) * Your HTML mails may include compiled data from your board such as "Last X message titles", "Recent Titles from the forum you subscribed", "Last X answered/unanswered messages", "user's incoming personal events", "Incoming general events from your calender" and etc. I plan to work on this hack only if it's considered useful and used by people. After spending a long time to code/debug/test/publish a hack, it's quite disappointing to see that 2 months later only 3-5 people used (installed) a hack. So if you use the hack, please dont forget to click INSTALL for this hack or for any hack you use! Thank you and Enjoy..\\=^)) Logician Show Your Support
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Here is a screenshot for "new reply notification email". It's simply a HTML message so you can use any design you like. It's just a sample I use in my board.
Notice that the screenshot is NOT a webpage! It's the EMAIL your members (who choose to recieve HTML mails) gets. It looks like a webpage because it's in HTML format This also clarifies what "HTML email" mean if you dont know the term. In an other words HTML mails are the mails with color/background/images/bold-italic-underlined fonts just like web pages.. |
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Is it easy to customise the email?
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I think I'll install this
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This has good potential, I may use this =) Thanks
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Nice, really nice feature
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You come to my resuce again! I just had a member request that e-mail from our forum come to him in HTML format. What I thought was impossible, you've made possible. I will install this later today for sure.
One quick question though: I'm using the Community Bulletin hack for sending weekly bulletins. Do you know if your hack will send these e-mails as HTML as wel? |
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I was about to start writing this one out myself, but you posted this right before I had to, which I'm glad for because I didn't realize before I started how big of a hack this would be. Saved me alot of time.
One thing to note is that the font in the "HTML/Plain Text Emails" option on the Edit Options page is not the same as the rest of the page. This is easily fixed by modifying the modifyoptions, registeradult and registercoppa templates, and replacing PHP Code:
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Great hack, Logician. |
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@Swayed: Thx, I updated the file..
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Is there a way to put a plain text message at the top of the page in case they are in HTML and they can't read the message?
This is what I would like to put, but I don't know how to make it appear in text and not HTML format : PHP Code:
Josh |
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Thanks for the reply..
Do you have any other suggestions on how I can make a readable message in the beginning if it is text so that I can have a message shown? I know i've seen then on emails before, just can't remember where. Thanks Josh |
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If you put the text before anything else, it would be displayed nicely in html-off viewers but would not be nice in HTML mails. On the other hand if you format this text with HTML, it would be nice in HTML mails but other users will see it in HTML too.
I personally prefer to warn the users not in the email but in the screen where they choose to receive HTML mails. It's why I included the hack the special link part to switch user mail option (the part you can change your mail setting with one click without going into your usercp). I add the "click here to get HTML mails" link to normal (non-HTML) email notification template and if the user clicks it, their settings change but they also get a detail warning about the effects of the this change (get garbage mails) and how to correct it if they encounter these effects (go to user cp and revert back to text mails). My board is not a large one but it seems to work for now. I havent got even one complaint from the members that they cant "read" the mails. This is my way of dealing with HTML mails, use it if it fits to you too |
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