Major Additions - Newsletter (Forum Activity)

Sorry no more free time.........

ChrisTERiS
PHP Freelancer
*** Compatible with vB.3.8.x ***

1.- What's this?

With this AddOn you can sends Newsletters to your Members, informing then for the latest activity in your forums.

2.- Features

• Custom Header/Footer
• CSS file to change the look and feel of the newsletter
• Add a Custom Greeting
• Mark a Post as Important to include the full text of this post in the Newsletter
• Latest News/Announcements
• Latest Sticky Threads
• Latest Popular Threads (most replies)
• Latest Threads
• Include a sidebar (PRO version)
  • Member Info (even with the amount of the unread emails (PRO version)

• • Special Member (Give a userid to promote a user) (PRO version)
  • Top Members (PRO version)
  • New Members (PRO version)
• Schedule One-time Newsletters
• Schedule Reccurings Newsletters (PRO version)
• Preview Newsletter (Test email)
• Add Advertisments to Newsletters (PRO version)
• Exclude Advertisments from specific Usergroup(s) (PRO version)
• Bounces Emails
• Blacklist Emails
• Relay Emails (Send a message even from your mobile) (PRO version)
• Newsletter Archives (PRO version)
• Send Emails using Mail() function
• Send Emails using Sendmail (PRO version)
• Send Emails using SMTP (PRO version)

3.- Installation

• Upload all files from the upload folder to your vB directory
• Import product-newsletter.xm
• Set the General Settings
• Set the Mailserver settings
• Set Newsletter Options
• Schedule a Newsletter and test it.

4.- Copyright

• All outgoing newsletters are having a copyright link in the footer. You're not allowing to remove this line (The PRO version is without this copyright line).

5.- Important Notes

1. You need to set a dedicated email address for bounce emails (from email) which you'll never access with any mail client. Doing it, you'll download the emails, and thus, they'll never preceed from the system.
2. Most cheap GoDaddy hosting plans are not having the Mail() function enabled. If this you, sorry but this mod will not works in your site.

Chris

[whitedd]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Are you sure that cronjobs have run? Please goto:
Scheduled Tasks-> Schedule Task Manager
and run manually:
1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails)
2.- Newsletter Send Emails (this actually sends the messages)

Chris

reuploaded all files...now 1. work charmy...but second not...

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Are you sure that cronjobs have run? Please goto:
Scheduled Tasks-> Schedule Task Manager
and run manually:
1.- Newsletter (this prepares the emails)
2.- Newsletter Send Emails (this actually sends the messages)

Chris

Newsletter Send Emails

Fatal error: Call to undefined function getMemberInfo() in /*****/*****/public_html/truckforum/includes/cron/newsletter_sendemails.php on line 52

[Christos Teriakis]

A new, bug fix, release is available for download. It fixes 2 errors found in cronjobs file. To upgrade upload the files inside the folder upload/includes/cron to your forum/includes/cron. Also import the product-newsletter.xml just to update the version number (there are no changes in this file).

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by whitedd

reuploaded all files...now 1. work charmy...but second not...

I've a warning in my post. Be sure that your hosting provider has enable the Mail() function. For example GoDaddy.com does not have it active and does not activate it even if you ask for it.

Chris

[joeychgo]

Still no good... (no errors though) And the Mail() function is enabled on my servers.

It jsut wont send out emails... Nothing in the cron job log either.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

Still no good... (no errors though) And the Mail() function is enabled on my servers.

It jsut wont send out emails... Nothing in the cron job log either.

Do you know to use phpMyAdmin, so I can give you some instructions to check if some tables are populating with data after cron runs?

Chris

[joeychgo]

yes....

[whitedd]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Do you know to use phpMyAdmin, so I can give you some instructions to check if some tables are populating with data after cron runs?

Chris

...same...i'am waiting to

[whitedd]

i replace all files...now cronjob working, but Nothing in the cron job log either, and mails not coming...?!?!?!

[whitedd]

waiting 3 days...no answer...uninstalled...