[BETA] New Topic/Reply Notify

Izhaki · Post by **Izhaki** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:26 am

Hi,

I've written a MOD that sends an email notification to a single address whenever a new topic or reply is posted.

Originally, I've written this MOD in order to (semi-)synchronize my forum with a mailing list.

Download here

Code: Select all

##############################################################
## MOD Title: NewTopic/Reply notification
## MOD Author: Izhaki <****@izhaki.com> (**** Izhaki) N/A
## MOD Description: Sends an Email to a single email address whenever a new topic/reply is posted.
##                  This can be useful, for example, when you want to sync with a mailing list.
## MOD Version: 1.0.0
##
## Installation Level: (Easy)
## Installation Time: ~1 Minutes
## Files To Edit:
##              - includes/functions_post.php
## Included Files: 
##		- language/lang_english/email/PostReplyNotify.tpl
##############################################################

Any comments\Bug reports (:?) will be highly appreciated.

Thanks, Roey.

Izhaki · Post by **Izhaki** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:17 am

Hmmm... did I mention that any beta-testers are (well) welcome? Cause I'm heading towards a neglectedness breakdown...

seteo-bloke · Post by **seteo-bloke** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:55 pm

I'll give this a go this evening.

Thanks Izhaki.

seteo-bloke · Post by **seteo-bloke** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:15 pm

Finally tested this and appears to do the job well.

Izhaki · Post by **Izhaki** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:47 pm

Cheers man,

Seems like there's not much interest anyway, so I reckon whoever needs it will find her way to this thread.

Thanks seteo-bloke.

mchyzer · Post by **mchyzer** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:47 pm

Izhaki wrote: Any comments\Bug reports (:?) will be highly appreciated.

This is a useful mod. I think it would be useful for users to be able to watch forums for all activity. Hopefully this will be available at some point. In any case, in the newest version of phpBB, this mod fails on reply posts (its ok for new posts). If you have "include(" on the mailer in the mod and in the php file where it goes to "include_once(" then it works fine...

Chris

sarchule · Post by **sarchule** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:58 am

mchyzer wrote: If you have "include(" on the mailer in the mod and in the php file where it goes to "include_once(" then it works fine...

I'd really like to use this mod on the latest version. However, I don't quite follow this last sentence. Can you explain further to a PHP newbie.

Oh, and thanks Izhaki for coming up with the original mod--I do think the idea is very useful.

Steve

mchyzer · Post by **mchyzer** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:29 pm

sarchule wrote:
mchyzer wrote: I'd really like to use this mod on the latest version. However, I don't quite follow this last sentence. Can you explain further to a PHP newbie.

Just replace the includes/functions_post.php with this file (better do it soon before phpBB upgrades this file, in which case you probably should do what the mod instructions say, and do my search and replace afterwards "include(" for "include_once(".

(replace [email protected] with your email address)

http://ait100039.isc-ait.upenn.edu/func ... st.php.txt

Chris

ayusuf · Post by **ayusuf** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:03 pm

its a good mod for a small forum. it was a big forum it would take up too much server load.

olol · Post by **olol** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:13 pm

hi, when you say a small forum how many people do you mean? we're an association with 190 members, would that be ok?
instead of sending each other e-mails all the time i'd like to get members involved in the forum by enticing them to read new posts which would be notified by an e-mail list to all members, including those who aren't registered with the forum, just 40 out of 190 just now, (but no further details about post content) with a link to the forum.
we use 2.06, does this mod work on this version too?
thanks for your suggestions and for a very useful idea.
laurence

whitlock · Post by **whitlock** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:52 pm

It would be nice to have an option in the admin control panel to turn this feature on and off for the board.

repustech · Post by **repustech** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:21 am

Great idea, this MOD would be very helpful to me. It works for a new post but it causes an error on a reply post.

The error says something like "cannot redeclare mailer".

I changed the "include" to "include_once" in the code you provided, but still had the same problem.

I am using phpbb 2.0.8

Has anyone got this MOD to work properly?

Thanx,

whitlock · Post by **whitlock** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:23 pm

It worked (for both replies and new topics) on my 2.0.10 board.

repustech · Post by **repustech** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:38 pm

For some reason it does not work with the latest version of phpbb 2.0.8

Since I didn't really need the "reply notification" I just removed that function from the MOD. It works great with just the "new topic notification".

Thanks to Izhaki for the original code, and thanks to everyone else with input and testing.

Take care,

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:47 pm

This looks interesting, i might try it out.