Email Notifications for updated vB.org Hacks

[ManagerJosh]

Anyone have a general idea on how it was coded??

[Colin F]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

Anyone have a general idea on how it was coded??

I assume it's a normal mailer, using the addresses from the people that installed.

[ManagerJosh]

I'm sorta curious to how is it triggered....I figured out it was a mailer

[Colin F]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

I'm sorta curious to how is it triggered....I figured out it was a mailer

Not sure I know what you mean.

The author of a modification can send out an update to all the members that installed the mod anytime he likes.

[sabret00the]

it's a simple textarea form and a while going thruogh all the userid's that have installed the hack, not sure if it uses an array or if their rows, but yeah it'll basically go through them using the vbmail() function which drips it out rather than the mail() function that sends em all instantly.

[Xenon]

exactly, well described sabre

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by Xenon

exactly, well described sabre

So basically its a conditional...like they check off a box when they edit their post so that it would email users?

[Colin F]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

So basically its a conditional...like they check off a box when they edit their post so that it would email users?

No, there's a specific page. You have a button called Send Update and when you click on that, you can enter data into a textfield. This is then emailed to any users that have installed the modification.

[sabret00the]

it looks just like the report post page

[Xenon]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

it looks just like the report post page

well, that's because we used the reporting post templates as the base template for that hack




hey, i always said i'm lazy