Send Part of User's Reply with Email Notification

Hiyas,

I dont like static email notifications and fancy coloring them up a bit. So this hack is one way to do it. (If I can spare time, more is likely to follow)

This hack simply sends a small portion of user's reply to thread subscribers in their notification mail. It's also possible to send the whole reply, but I dont suggest this, because if they read it all, they wont visit the original thread. But just giving a hint and sending a few lines can be provoking to get them to your board ASAP.

It's an easy to install hack and you can easily customize it by choosing how many characters of the reply will be sent to the members.

I use this hack in V.2.2.2 and havent noticed any problems. Please report bugs in this thread..

Enjoy! \\=^))

Regards,
Logician

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aaron1

Hi,

I moved my forum to a new server but suddenly i have a strange but annoying problem. Whenver someone subscribes to thread, the e-mail he gets sent looks terrible because it lacks linebreaks, i double checked if this hack isn't properly installed, but that's not the case. Anyone have a clue what could be the problem?

Btw all e-mails sent out misses linebreaks (br's) very weird.

Is it all emails that misses line breaks or only email that this hack sends?

[Aaron1]

That's the weird thing, all e-mails that are send out Logician, do you have an idea what could be the cause of that?

[Aaron1]

Shall I e-mail you the admin/functions.php if you want to take a look at it?



Here's an example how a notify e-mail looks like in my mailbox:


Hello Housequake, sowtob has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Cosmic day???? - in the Trading/Discussion forum of Forum Home. Here is a small part of the reply: ---------------------------------------------------- He's back today or tomorrow I think.... ---------------------------------------------------- This thread is located at: http://www.housequake.com/forum/show...3&goto=newpost There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the board again. Yours, Housequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscription information: To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page: http://www.housequake.com/forum/memb...threadid=15893 To unsubscribe from ALL threads, please visit this page: http://www.housequake.com/forum/memb...type=allthread

[Logician]

If all emails are like this, how can this be related to this hack? ^^ Have you checked email templates and confirmed that they are good in terms of line breaks?

[Aaron1]

I even triple checked my templates Logician, could it be something server side?
All templates seem to be stored without linebreaks automatically somehow.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aaron1

I even triple checked my templates Logician, could it be something server side?
All templates seem to be stored without linebreaks automatically somehow.

Have you moved to a Window server? It sounds like it. Check here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25810

[Aaron1]

Yes! I did Logician, thanks for this link (otherwise i would have never found it) :-)

[subu1]

Hi,

Great Hack, big thxx, ist works....*click install*

[glo]

Originally Posted by Aaron1

Shall I e-mail you the admin/functions.php if you want to take a look at it?



Here's an example how a notify e-mail looks like in my mailbox:


Hello Housequake, sowtob has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Cosmic day???? - in the Trading/Discussion forum of Forum Home. Here is a small part of the reply: ---------------------------------------------------- He's back today or tomorrow I think.... ---------------------------------------------------- This thread is located at: http://www.housequake.com/forum/show...3&goto=newpost There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the board again. Yours, Housequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscription information: To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page: http://www.housequake.com/forum/memb...threadid=15893 To unsubscribe from ALL threads, please visit this page: http://www.housequake.com/forum/memb...type=allthread

Hi Logician,

I have installed this hack onto my test board which is on my laptop using XP, and have seen that this problem occurs on windows servers, however my live site is on a Linux server, so will everything just translate across without any problems? ie will the line breaks be enforced, unlike when they are on Windows servers?

[Logician]

I'm using the hack both in linux and windows servers just fine.

[glo]

Hi Logician,

I am only looking for clarification my question, on my test board (on my XP laptop) my template preview screen (in forums/admin) displays similar to Aaron1's post. (remember I have not tested it on the live site yet)

A link you gave to Aaron indicated that Windows servers handle it differently, and thus i suspect that as i am running my test board on XP, this is why there are no breaks (in the preview; i havent tried it live yet)

But i guess the real question to this is "even though my template preview (on XP) does not show line breaks, when i upload this to the live site (linux), i presume it will work flawlessly without any issues since the "no line break issue" is Windows related! Yes?

Just trying to get my head around this!

[Logician]

Your assumption is correct.