Major Additions - Newsletter (Forum Activity)

Sorry no more free time.........

ChrisTERiS
PHP Freelancer
*** Compatible with vB.3.8.x ***

1.- What's this?

With this AddOn you can sends Newsletters to your Members, informing then for the latest activity in your forums.

2.- Features

• Custom Header/Footer
• CSS file to change the look and feel of the newsletter
• Add a Custom Greeting
• Mark a Post as Important to include the full text of this post in the Newsletter
• Latest News/Announcements
• Latest Sticky Threads
• Latest Popular Threads (most replies)
• Latest Threads
• Include a sidebar (PRO version)
  • Member Info (even with the amount of the unread emails (PRO version)

• • Special Member (Give a userid to promote a user) (PRO version)
  • Top Members (PRO version)
  • New Members (PRO version)
• Schedule One-time Newsletters
• Schedule Reccurings Newsletters (PRO version)
• Preview Newsletter (Test email)
• Add Advertisments to Newsletters (PRO version)
• Exclude Advertisments from specific Usergroup(s) (PRO version)
• Bounces Emails
• Blacklist Emails
• Relay Emails (Send a message even from your mobile) (PRO version)
• Newsletter Archives (PRO version)
• Send Emails using Mail() function
• Send Emails using Sendmail (PRO version)
• Send Emails using SMTP (PRO version)

3.- Installation

• Upload all files from the upload folder to your vB directory
• Import product-newsletter.xm
• Set the General Settings
• Set the Mailserver settings
• Set Newsletter Options
• Schedule a Newsletter and test it.

4.- Copyright

• All outgoing newsletters are having a copyright link in the footer. You're not allowing to remove this line (The PRO version is without this copyright line).

5.- Important Notes

1. You need to set a dedicated email address for bounce emails (from email) which you'll never access with any mail client. Doing it, you'll download the emails, and thus, they'll never preceed from the system.
2. Most cheap GoDaddy hosting plans are not having the Mail() function enabled. If this you, sorry but this mod will not works in your site.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by vb.help

Thanks for the mod. Is there any custom templates for the format of the email ?

For formating the template not. I didn't used a template as I wanted to keep this mod compatible with vB3.x. But you can change the colors by modifying the file forummembers/css/newsletter.css. You can also hide some block if you don't like them, by setting 0 in the General settings

Chris

[whitedd]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

The field "To Send" will get value when the cronruns. To have this value now has no sence. Let me explain. Let's say that you setup to send a Newsletter after 5 days. Now you've 1,000 Members, but till the Sunday you maybe have 1,200 Members. If the newsletter was counting the Members to send emails now, the new 200 members will not get the Newsletter.

Chris

...nope...after cron run, automaticli and leter manualy, nothing... ...same picture ...

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by whitedd

...nope...after cron run, automaticli and leter manualy, nothing... ...same picture ...

Are you sure that cronjobs have run? Please goto:
Scheduled Tasks-> Schedule Task Manager
and run manually:
1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails)
2.- Newsletter Send Emails (this actually sends the messages)

Chris

[whitedd]

when i run 1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails) , its never finish...dont have "Done"...

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by whitedd

when i run 1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails) , its never finish...dont have "Done"...

As long as you're not getting any error, you need to wait to finish the job. Also if you've lots of members you must change the time that the cronjob will run. eg if it's every 15 minutes to change it every 30 min or so.

Chris

[joeychgo]

If I try to run the cronjob manually I get

PHP Code:

Newsletters 
 
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/*******/public_html/truckforum/includes/cron/newsletter_prepare.php on line 84 


This is 4.18

Also - the "recurring" checkbox is grayed out and not selectable...

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

If I try to run the cronjob manually I get

PHP Code:

Newsletters 
 
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/*******/public_html/truckforum/includes/cron/newsletter_prepare.php on line 84 


This is 4.18

Also - the "recurring" checkbox is grayed out and not selectable...

1.- Please upload the attached file at vb_installation/includes/cron
2.- Reccuring is only available in the PRO version

Chris

[joeychgo]

I did. The cron is still not sending out the newsletters. If I preview I get the newsletter fine, but not otherwise.

[whitedd]

after 24 hours waiting nothing ... ...

[whitedd]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

I did. The cron is still not sending out the newsletters. If I preview I get the newsletter fine, but not otherwise.

same problem...