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

[Dragaon]

installed and tested, works great. Bought Pro version too. Nice work Chris

[Dragaon]

Where do members find the setting to unsubscribe from the newsletter?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Dragaon

Where do members find the setting to unsubscribe from the newsletter?

The members can unsubscribe turning off "Receive emails from Admins".

Chris

[oddmud]

How do I find thread ID's with vBSEO?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by oddmud

How do I find thread ID's with vBSEO?

I don't use vBSEO so I'm not sure. But should be a number if you mouse over ther thread title.

Chris

[oddmud]

I set it all up and the test email worked fine, when I scheduled a full email blast it came back with a database error.

I shortened it cause it quoted the whole message:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.9:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE newsletter_newsletters SET subject='What's going on at the GCN... - Issue 1', message='<img src=\"http://www.mysite.com/images/misc/vbulletin4_logo.png\"><style>body

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 's going on at the GCN... - Issue 1', message='<img src=\"http://www.mysite' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Wednesday, January 18th 2012 @ 11:15:25 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, January 18th 2012 @ 11:15:26 AM
Script : http://www.mysite.com/cron.php?rand=1326914124
Referrer :
IP Address : 208.113.226.174
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Can you help identify the issue? I changed the url obviously.

[oddmud]

No answer? You were online today.

[cdoyle]

Just installed this and looking it over, is there a way to actually type something into the message without having to create a thread in the forum?

I wanted to add a message to my newsletter with links etc.

I don't believe this is possible is it?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Just installed this and looking it over, is there a way to actually type something into the message without having to create a thread in the forum?

I wanted to add a message to my newsletter with links etc.

I don't believe this is possible is it?

Why you don't believe it? Because it's free? That means nothigs.
admincp-> Newsletter Options-> General Settings-> Head Message
(If you like, add a personal message to appear at the top of the newsletter.)

Chris

[cdoyle]

The link to the pro version seems to be broken, is there an updated link?