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!!

[memobug]

Originally Posted by fixer

thanx for the hack
it works fine in 3.0.7

But in admincp, Where could i find the link to commbull.php?

Expand the User section of the menu and look toward the bottom - "Send Community Bulletin" or similar

If you have a blank line there you might need to refresh one of the commbull phrases to make them all appear. Go into your phrases menu, search on commbull and pick a phrase to edit and save.

Regards,

Matt

[greenhybrid]

My "threads without replies" table shows the title "posted most recently." Any idea why?

[memobug]

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

My "threads without replies" table shows the title "posted most recently." Any idea why?

I think I documented it somewhere before, but commbull.php Line 809 has a bug in it, making the HTML title for topic group 4 the same as topic group 3:

PHP Code:

 $HTML_threadspreview4 .=" <td colspan=\"7\"><b><i>$title3</i></b></td>\n"; 


should be

PHP Code:

 $HTML_threadspreview4 .=" <td colspan=\"7\"><b><i>$title4</i></b></td>\n"; 


Regards,

Matt

[greenhybrid]

Thanks. I actually edited some of the code to add a new table with the custom message inside of it, so it wasn't just sitting on the background. You may want to include that in the next release, if you have one?

[memobug]

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

Thanks. I actually edited some of the code to add a new table with the custom message inside of it, so it wasn't just sitting on the background. You may want to include that in the next release, if you have one?

Actually, it's not mine. I don't think this hack is supported by the author(s) any longer. However, you might want to post your mods as an attachment or a screenshot of what you mean. I'm not sure exactly what your change does.

Regards,

Matt

[biagrin]

ive put my forum title image into the newsletter but it has a blue border stuck round the outsdie - does anybody know how to remove the title image border

*ignore this i ve got the answer*

[biagrin]

actually i do know have a problem. when in admincp, if i click on an option from the left hand column and it goes to the page ive clicked on, the left column disappears. anybody know why?

[Lee]

Any reason why members receiving the bulletin would receive 3 copies to the same email address?

[nnjj.net]

hi everybody,

is it wprking on 3.0.7?

[cmiller1014]

Depends on what you consider "working" . It has a ton of bugs, and sends links to threads that are deleted. The entire thing is a waste of time in my opinion.

Is there ANY OTHER option out there for something like this???