Board Optimization - vMail Converter - Send out your emails in different encoding

By Syrian Medical Society & Milad

Introduction:
In order to solve the problem with unicode (UTF-8) in some Email Service Providers (such as Hotmail, Yahoo and many others), I created this product.
It converts the sent out messages only, from your real encoding into an encoding of choice, both encodings, the source & destination must be supported by iconv.
You may know, I had converted to UTF-8 and faced this problem, now it's solved.

Caution:
This product is provided As Is without warranties.

Requirements:

• vBulletin 3.7.1+
• iconv PHP extension is installed on your system, or your PHP version is 5 and above.

Supported Encodings:
See http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#introduction

Installation or Upgrading:

1. Import the product file product-vmail_converter.xml (Choose Yes when Upgrade).
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> Email Options -> vMail Converter - Destination Encoding.
3. Set your Destination Encoding and save (For me, It's windows-1256).
4. In /includes/class_mail.php Replace every
   
   PHP Code:

   $stylevar['charset'] 
   

   WITH
   
   PHP Code:

   $this->get_charset() 
   

5. In /includes/class_mail.php Replace every
   
   PHP Code:

   $vbulletin->options['bbtitle'] 
   

   WITH
   
   PHP Code:

   $this->converted_bbtitle() 
   

6. In /includes/class_mail.php Find
   
   PHP Code:

   $toemail = $this->fetch_first_line($toemail); 
   

   Add after:
   
   
   PHP Code:

           // vMail Converter START
           $subject = $this->vmail_convert($subject);
           $message = $this->vmail_convert($message);
           if ($from != '')
           {
               $from = $this->vmail_convert($from);
           }
           if ($uheaders != '')
           {
               $uheaders = $this->vmail_convert($uheaders);
           }
           if ($username != '')
           {
               $username = $this->vmail_convert($username);
           }
           // vMail Converter END 
   

7. In /includes/class_mail.php Find again
   
   PHP Code:

       function start($toemail, $subject, $message, $from = '', $uheaders = '', $username = '')
       { 
   

   Add before:
   
   PHP Code:

       // vMail Converter START
       function vmail_convert($item)
       {
       global $stylevar;
       
           if (function_exists('iconv') AND $item != '')
           {
               return @iconv($stylevar['charset'], $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'], $item);
           }
           else
           {
               return $item;
           }
       }
       
       function get_charset()
       {
           global $stylevar;
           
           if (function_exists('iconv'))
           {
               return $this->registry->options['vmail_converter_destination'];
           }
           else
           {
               return $stylevar['charset'];
           }
       }
       
       function converted_bbtitle()
       {
           global $vbulletin;
           return $this->vmail_convert($vbulletin->options['bbtitle']);
       }
       // vMail Converter END 
   

8. Find:
   
   PHP Code:

               if (isset($vbphrase['x_mailer']))
               { 
   

   Add After:
   
   PHP Code:

   $vbphrase['x_mailer'] = $this->vmail_convert($vbphrase['x_mailer']); 
   

   Save and upload the file again.
9. You're done.

Known issues:

• none.

Versions:

• 1.0.0 (initial release). (5. April 2007)
• 1.1.0 (10. April 2007)
• 1.1.1 (11. April 2007) fix a bug
• 1.2.0 (17. May 2007) Very good version, every bug fixed.
• 1.3.0 (16 June 2008) Version for 3.7.1

Support is given for who clicks "install" only.
Mark it as "Installed" to receive updates and support.

[tuwebfacil]

Thanks!!!

[M? Mostafa]

Thank u Milad

[Milad]

I'm sorry.

I forgot to list a step.
Please add the step 8 to your modified file.

Best regards

[djrapid.com]

Are you supposed to include

$this->

at the start of every code that is to be replaced?
Thanks

[Milad]

You're supposed to make the edits as instructed.

[Pokerbanter]

So how do I uninstall this?

I installed it and it didn't work. Found out after that i'm only running php 4.

Undid all the file changes above and uninstalled product but now I can't send email at all whereas I was able to before.

[Milad]

Upload brand new version of the file: /includes/class_mail.php

[Sup101]

Works with 3.8 >?

[cgway.net]

Works with 3.8 >?