Instant Thread Notification for Subscribed Forums

Instant Thread Notification for Subscribed Forums

Purpose:
This plugin allows your members to select "Instant Email Notification" when they are subscribing to a forum, instead of just the default Daily/Weekly Digests. When a new thread is posted in a subscribed forum, all subscribed users are instantly sent an email alerting them.

Modifications:
Code Hacks: 0
New Products: 1
New Plugins: 1
New Phrases: 2
New Templates: 0
Template Changes: 1

Installation Instructions:

Step 1 (Template Change):
Find the following in the "subscribe_choosetype" template (located under "Subscribed Thread Templates" in the template manager):

<if condition="$show['subscribetothread']">
<option value="1" $emailselected[1]>$vbphrase[instant_notification_by_email]</option>
</if>

Replace with:

<option value="1" $emailselected[1]>$vbphrase[instant_notification_by_email]</option>

(Just remove the if statement)

Step 2 (install product):
Import the product-instantnotif.xml file into your Product Manager.

Enjoy! - It's installed!

Any users who were already subscribed to a forum will need to re-subscribe in order to select this new option.

You can change the email subject & body by editing the "foruminstantnotify" phrases located under the "Email Body Text" & "Email Subject Text" phrase types.

[mdcarlson]

Great mod! I added an additional part to the where clause to limit this to only certain usergroupids.

Mark

[Bloory]

Originally Posted by mdcarlson

Great mod! I added an additional part to the where clause to limit this to only certain usergroupids.

Mark

Would you care to share please

[kellzey]

This works great.

How can the plug in be modified so that it will send instant notification of ALL POSTS (including replies to topics) in a subscribed forum instantly, instead of just NEW topics?

If someone can help me figure this out, I will be most grateful.

Thanks,

Karl

[Taipa]

Originally Posted by majorxp

Can you enable its use for only one forum? I have too much traffic to allow users to do this for all the forums.

Me too. Is this an option?

[ricknlida]

Noob reporting in. I love this Mod, but we just re-did all our boards so we have complaints about how tedious it is to unsubscribe one at a time, the re-subscribe one at a time.

Is there a hack/mod/etc. that will display all boards, maybe with checkboxes to subscribe or unsubscribe to any or all or selected boards?

Thanks!

[Boofo]

Does this work ok for 3.5.4?

[ricknlida]

Yes. That's what we're running.

Additionally I'd ask, if the answer to my original question is "no", then is there a way to subscribe to a Category to include all the boards under it?

...just looking to try to avoid that one at a time subscribing and unsubscribing...

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by FQ-Joseph

I don't think so... ? The template by default will only show the "Instant" option if the users clicked to subscribe to a thread. The alteration simply removes that check, and shows the "Instant" option on all subscribe options pages. If subscriptions are disabled, then that page shouldn't even be accessible (which would be detirmined by a higher "if" then the one I removed).

Has anyone confirmed this is how it works?

[2kmcoupe]

Brilliant! Thanks! I too am in the process of transition some of my more stubborn users off a yahoo group and this will certainly help me along.
Wonderful!

[s.blair]

Would also love to have it email for ALL POSTS and not just new Threads alone.

Anyone solved this?