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!!

[rex_b]

Originally Posted by rex_b

It's only sending to 400 out of my 1100 users.

Any ideas on why or how to fix?

anyone?

[Kentaurus]

For the spanish talking people, I think you might find this useful.
Replace the commbull_phrases.php with this custom one for having it translated into spanish.

[rex_b]

Originally Posted by rex_b

anyone?

No thoughts?

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by rex_b

No thoughts?

Not really. Are you sure it is only going to 400 of your members. Generally vB breaks the mailing list across multiple pages to avoid timeout errors. It is possible that your browser is not auto forwarding to the next page in this process.

I know that TAZ use this to send bulletins to their 1500+ members and as far as I know they haven't had any problems. I only have a small board 225 members, but it has worked fine for me.

[memobug]

We sent around 3000 last month. Since it was our first mailing, I set the count to 100 per page. rex_b really hasn't provided a very clear idea of the failure and his environment. How many bulletins are you sending at a time and what is the failure mode? Does it just stop, or does it complete and some of them just aren't sent?

Regards,

Matt

[grandeur_69]

i have a forum (abnehmen.com) and it has over 9,000 members ... never had any problems with it ... just takes forever.

[welo]

Quick observation on a mini bug here. In commbull.php you have paths hardwired to the admincp dir, which naturally break if people have this set to something else ($admincpdir var in includes/config.php). Lines 56, 57, and 1385 of commbull.php should have admincp/blah.php changed either to $admincpdir/blah.php (while requiring includes/config.php), or some other settable ACP var in commbull.php itself.

[rex_b]

All it does is says I have 2 pages of users 1/2 and 2/2 and it sends to those people.

NO failure notice or anything. It just doesn't send to everyone.

I'm confused.

[Trigger351]

Hi guys, just a quick question. I was wondering if anyone can tell me how I can force this hack to use a different forum style when mailing out?
In the commbull.php file I suspect its this line
$sql = "SELECT * FROM ". TABLE_PREFIX."style WHERE userselect > 0 LIMIT 1";
that needs to be altered but I'm having troubles.
Any helps would be great
thanks

[traderx]

I would like to change how the html email looks completely.... how do I do this?