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!!

[soniceffect]

OK had a look through the thread and can`t seem to see an answer so I guess I`ll post it .... when I put text in the 'extra material' box in appears as plain text ... Any way I can get it to appear in a table same as the rest of the bulletin?

[RichieBoy67]

You can use almost any HTML editor and just copy the whole thing into the editor and add your text.. You could even use frontpage for this..

[soniceffect]

cheers richie ... never even though of that *doh LMAO

[tuwebfacil]

Hi,

I have this hack installed for long in a 17.000 members forums and working great in a Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM cPanel Server.

I decided to change the server to a Dual Xeon 2 GB of RAM, and now the hack stop to work. I imported my account from cPanel to cPanel, so should have the exact setup, of course its different server now.

It does the preview well, but when I try to send to 300 members at time the newsletter times out.

I have to set to 10 to 20 members at once, and you can imagine how long it will take for a forum with 17.000+ members to send a newsletter.

I changed many setting in the new server but I don’t know what else to do, maybe someone has an idea or experience with this.

Thanks!

[Neutral Singh]

Its got nothing to do with Commbull, you can checkup with your server administrator to increase the amount of emails that can be sent at once.

[mikelbeck]

I've tried to install this a couple of times on my vB and have had the same issues each time:

1 - The install screen shows a bunch of changes that need to be made to code, but has no other text... Anywhere where there should be text is just "I". If I continue on past the install screen, the same thing happens.

2 - The phrases that are inserted have "I" as their text.

3 - The item never shows up on the admin screen menu.

Has anybody else experienced this? How do I fix it? This is on 3.0.7, if that matters.

Screenshots attached...

[tuwebfacil]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

Its got nothing to do with Commbull, you can checkup with your server administrator to increase the amount of emails that can be sent at once.

Can you give me any tip about where they should change that, seems that they don't know what to do.

Any hint will be really appreciated

Thanks!

[dethfire]

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.8:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1, lastpost='1122878669',lastpost er='dethfire' WHERE forumid IN ()
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

[mikelbeck]

Originally Posted by mikelbeck

I've tried to install this a couple of times on my vB and have had the same issues each time:

1 - The install screen shows a bunch of changes that need to be made to code, but has no other text... Anywhere where there should be text is just "I". If I continue on past the install screen, the same thing happens.

2 - The phrases that are inserted have "I" as their text.

3 - The item never shows up on the admin screen menu.

Has anybody else experienced this? How do I fix it? This is on 3.0.7, if that matters.

Screenshots attached...

Nobody has any ideas on this?

[TTG]

Seems to work fine on 3.0.8 .. just installed it for a friend, with no problems on installation