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!!

[cmiller1014]

I am using 3.0.7 and am going through hell to get support from vbulletin because I have this hack installed. What a mess

[rjordan]

Originally Posted by DistributorTalk

I am using 3.0.7 and am going through hell to get support from vbulletin because I have this hack installed. What a mess

lol ... it can be an experience with ANY hack installed if you have a hack installed where they may be looking for a problem!

[memobug]

You would get the same response from Vbulletin if you admitted to having any hack installed.

Regards,

Matt

[CommunityZ]

Originally Posted by memobug

Find this bit towards the bottom of commbull.php

 if ($user[receivebulletin_type] == '1')
{
/*
$htmlmail = new send_mail($user['email'],"$bbtitle Mailer",$webmasteremail,$subject,$HTML_mailbody);
$htmlmail->changetype('html');
$htmlmail->send();
*/
if (DEBUG_COMMBULL == '0')
{
	mail($user[email],$subject,$HTML_mailbody,$htmlEmailHeader);
}
echo ' html ';
}
else

and right before it, insert the new line:

$user[receivebulletin_type]=0;

That should force everyone to text regardless of their setting.

Regards,

Matt

Thank you!
But is there a way I make the default is by text mail If they like html mail They can chnage it to HTML mail.

[RichieBoy67]

I am having a similial problem. I cannot send out html. It was working fine and now it just sends text... I tried the above and a few other things but nothing worked...

How can I bypass and just make it send out html???

Thanks

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by DistributorTalk

I RECCOMEND NOONE INSTALLS THIS!

It completely broke our system, you can no longer mass prune members, and a number of other problems. The modifications it makes to the user table screw everything up.

Plus there is obviously no support for it anymore. Just not worth the effort.

I have had absolutely no problems with this program and use it on all my forums. It is a great tool as far as I am concerned.

[RichieBoy67]

I love the program too..... It was working perfectly up until recently...

[GetGamer.com]

Originally Posted by GetGamer.com

Yes, in my php.ini register_globals = off. What do you mean by checking "the receiving php file"? Are you referring to profile.php (which the user options form posts to)? If so, it does indeed have a line that reads

PHP Code:

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 


Anyone have any other suggestions?

I'm still struggling with this problem. Has anyone else had this problem, where members' changes to their bulletin preferences aren't actually saved?

[greenhybrid]

Works great. Thanks. Now, are these automatically sent evey week, now? It wasn't clear when I sent the first newsletter.

[greenhybrid]

The thread is posting as a guest even though my username number: 1 is set for "If yes, which username should be the poster?"