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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!! Show Your Support
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Ok I found the problem.
If you have photopost installed DO NOT include this part into your global.php http://www.photopost.com/members/for...ght=stylesheet |
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Guys, don't mess with your forum stylesheets for the commbull html mail. Leave your current storage alone system for your forum. (uness you want to change it for your forum itself). As for the commbull email html calling for a stylesheet, you make a copy of your default stylesheet, rename it (something like - vb.css, as I did), place it in a different folder outside of your forum's directory ( I out it in a folder in my site root, also did the same for my forums' logo), and then in the html preview section of the commbull.php file, type in the full url path to these two files.:
example: http://yoursite.com/bulletincssfolder/vb.css http://yoursite.com/bulletincssfolder/logo.gif Around line 318: Quote:
I played enough with this stylesheet and logo thing, and I found this to be the easiest answer. You have to remember, the user is calling for the stylesheet and logo from their email client, not directly from your site. John |
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Editing the html email in the commbull.php file.
In the commbull.php file look for (line numbers are approx.): Quote:
I didn't mess around with the poll sections. I only have three on my forum, and thay don't update much. But if you want to edit the html for these, or any part of the html, just look in the commbull.php file for any <table>, <tr>, <td> start tags. Basically, the html output is a bunch of table structures, but they are spread out in the commbull.php file. I'm going to experiment with making a commbull html email template with the variables in it, and just have the commbull.php script call it up. Language changes are easy, just go to the commbull_phrase.php file (thinking of switching that over to phrase variables too!) As always, MAKE and save a copy of the file prior to editing. Make your changes a little at a time, then send the bulletin to yourself (admin) and take a look. I must have sent myself at least twenty before I was satisfied. Here's my how my final edit html email bulletin looks like: http://shipmodeling.net/forumnewsletter.html |
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I didn't feel like muking around with other files. This works quite nicely. I do have my froum css's stored as in file (s). My image is small too. |
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thanks man, great to have this back on the vb3 board
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I have this hack installed and it has been working but now whenever I send something it thinks for a minute then brings up a page saying "The page cannot be displayed" . Any ideas on what is going wrong?
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