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!!

[Blam Forumz]

/me installs this uber hack

[trackpads]

I would love to see an option so that we could send this as a Mass PM instead. I prefer that to haggling with the emails.

Then if a user has a PM notfication they can just come online and view it.

Thanks again for all the work,

-Jason
(clickety instally :-) )

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by trackpads

I would love to see an option so that we could send this as a Mass PM instead. I prefer that to haggling with the emails.

Then if a user has a PM notfication they can just come online and view it.

Thanks again for all the work,

-Jason
(clickety instally :-) )

There is a hack for Mass PM. Copy and Paste the Preview HTML code into your Mass PM text window. Problem solved. :smoke:

Cheers,

[RetroDreams]

Originally Posted by RetroDreams

Any idea why birthdays and calendar events are not showing up?

Has this been resolved by anybody?

[Robert Basil]

I've used Commbull on VB2 and loved it. But until the spamassasin (with Qmail) problem is resolved I cannot install this hack.

Anyone resolve this issue yet?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by Sportbikeworld

I've used Commbull on VB2 and loved it. But until the spamassasin (with Qmail) problem is resolved I cannot install this hack.

Anyone resolve this issue yet?

Hi Sportbikeworld,

spamassasin problem with qmail? We are running qmail + fprot + clamav + spamassasin and we have no problems with this hack. What problem are you experiencing?

Cheers,

[grandeur_69]

well, if ur already using vb3, then u have no Community bulletin, so you might as well run it and find out if you have problems on your machine. It may be something like setting the proper permissions on your server so that the mailings don't get considered spam (like disabling the warning that gets attached to some mailings about the reply not matching the sender address by adding PHP or Apache or whatever object is used to send out the mailings on your server)

[memobug]

Just a couple notes concerning installation. I had previously installed this vb2.x of this hack.

1. I entirely missed the installation instructions link amongst the credits and so forth. However since I already had a prior version installed, my test newsletter was emailed.

2. When I did catch that little installation instructions link, it made a lot more sense.

3. one of my phrases vbphrase[type_email_from_commbull] got messed up somehow. It wasn't showing in the options template and came up blank even though I could see it in the phrase manager. Finally when I happened to modify vbphrase[receive_email_from_commbull] in the phrase manager, it popped back into view.

Q: Is there supposed to be a combull option in the admincp main, or do we always execute this by browsing admincp/commbull.php

That's it for now,

Matt

[memobug]

Originally Posted by RetroDreams

Any idea why birthdays and calendar events are not showing up?

I have the same problem, and perhaps I do have an idea...

1. I ran the calendar query from this hack against my database and didn't have any events show up. I think the reason is that the query has the dates described as 27-Sep-2004 and the database has them in a numeric form:

Query:

SELECT * FROM event WHERE dateline_from>='27-Sep-2004' AND dateline_to<='12-Oct-2005' AND visible=1 ORDER BY dateline LIMIT 0,14

Database (just an example)

dateline_from: 1025697600
dateline_to:1025787600

Anyway, that is my idea.

A Question

1. Does anyone running 3.0.3 have calendar events showing?
2. How does it decide which template CSS to use for the HTML layout?
Comments:

2. Since 3.0.3 supports multiple calendars, there should really be a way to select which calendars are used.
3. ...And possibly send individuals their own private events, too


Regards,

Matt

[TTG]

Originally Posted by memobug

Q: Is there supposed to be a combull option in the admincp main, or do we always execute this by browsing admincp/commbull.php

That's it for now,

Matt

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