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!!

[Lionel]

My version is 90% bug free on 3.07. Someone in this thread fixed the upcoming events issue.

[cmiller1014]

Unfortunately the person who made that fix didnt post it publically and they never got back to me. There is also a bug that displays soft deleted threads which really causes problems, and if you choose to show "Threads with 0 Replies" it puts the title as "Threads with the most replies".

I've found other little bugs too but these are the most annoying. I have to copy the entire html newsletter into dreamweaver to fix it before sending it out, and thats just the html version. Anyone who receives my text version is shown the deleted threads, and incorrect heading for the 0 post thing.

This entire script is a big pain.

[cmiller1014]

I just found another bug where the bulletin shows the same poll 2 times. it only does this with 1 poll, but it does happen.

Anyone else get this?

[The Geek]

could it be that it is attached to a moved thread?

I dont think there are too many bugs with the system (though there are a couple), however the customization of it is a serious pain. It really wouldnt be too hard to make a new and improved version - I would have if I would have known how time consuming it would be to customize. I am sure it would only take about 10 hours of coding to get a really solid customizable version.

[cmiller1014]

Originally Posted by The Geek

could it be that it is attached to a moved thread?

I just looked and it was never moved. There is only 1 of this poll, but combull still shows 2 of it on the bulletin.

Very odd and annoying. I fixed the problem with the mislabeled header from a few posts back, but I still have to load it up in dreamweaver and edit out the extra poll and clean the entire thing up each time.

I would throw $300 out if I knew I could get a solid working version that will work with vb 3.5.

[grandeur_69]

i'm planning on reworking this whole thing from scratch once the new version comes out .... proper language support, calender, etc, etc
.. i've been kind of out of the loop for awhile because I've been traveling the globe for work ...

[SmartGnome]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

i'm planning on reworking this whole thing from scratch once the new version comes out .... proper language support, calender, etc, etc
.. i've been kind of out of the loop for awhile because I've been traveling the globe for work ...

If you do that ... your the greatest.

My users love the commbull.


Tnx

[aldamon]

Originally Posted by grandeur_69

i'm planning on reworking this whole thing from scratch once the new version comes out .... proper language support, calender, etc, etc
.. i've been kind of out of the loop for awhile because I've been traveling the globe for work ...

You'd be our hero for sure. Our board is small and CommBull provides us with predictable traffic every two weeks.

[memobug]

Originally Posted by cmiller1014

Unfortunately the person who made that fix didnt post it publically and they never got back to me.

Hi Chris, If you're talking about me, I have communicated with you directly several times and sent the file with commbull "upcoming events" fixes to you at least twice:

• Our first contact was in April when you didn't provide me an email address to send the file
• After I got your address and re-sent the file, you were having problems with your email system. You wrote that your email system trashed the file, but you replied to me using an HTML client.
• I re-sent in plain text anyway I sent the file to you sent it to you twice and if I recall correctly, you kept losing it.

I really don't mind trying to help people but this is exactly why I don't want to post mods in a thread like this. Your message above might give the impression that I was nonresponsive to your request and that simply isn't the case.

Please let me know by PM if you need the file again, or a gmail invite to get a properly working email client, which is the suggestion I made when we last communicated.

Best regards,

Matt

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by The Geek

could it be that it is attached to a moved thread?

I dont think there are too many bugs with the system (though there are a couple), however the customization of it is a serious pain. It really wouldnt be too hard to make a new and improved version - I would have if I would have known how time consuming it would be to customize. I am sure it would only take about 10 hours of coding to get a really solid customizable version.

please please please please please!

a geek bull would make my day!