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!!

[Paul M]

Please note this in the main post.

The 3.6 version is a commercial product, any queries on it should be PM'd to the Author, support or promotion of it is not permitted in this thread.

I have removed two 3.6 support questions this morning.

[laskos]

does anyone know how to change the layout of the html version? i want to include:

post title
posted date
forum it was posted in

also how can i un subscribe all my members and they need to subscibe into it as at the moment everyone is on it?

i have the 3.5.4 version

thanks in advance

[laskos]

anyone ?

[rcull]

I have just noticed something you may wish to try to improve in an otherwise excellent product.

When a user updates their email address in the forums, it is not updated in the commbull send out. This means that if they change their email, they will never get another commbull!!!

Maybe the easiest way would be to have an option to update the mailing list?

[vwdforum]

<a href="http://www.octanedev.com/commbull.php" target="_blank">http://www.octanedev.com/commbull.php</a> is down and not working boooo

[joshbond]

Originally Posted by vwdforum

http://www.octanedev.com/commbull.php is down and not working boooo

ya, that sucks. I would of liked to of checked this one out.

Anyone know any other alternatives?

[abroad]

I would like to insert a <table width=700px> tag in the text box to limit the width of the text when I see it in HTML form, but it has no effect...any idea why?

[goldendox]

i have uploaded the 2 files inside the commbull zip into admincp, but nothing shows up at users. am i supposed to do something else? thanks.

[goldendox]

also, not finding any further instructions.

[SoftDux]

Does anyone know if this mod will work with VB 3.6.8?

I get the following error when trying to use it:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /home/webhost/public_html/admincp/commbull.php on line 46