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Hey all,

I had our forums back-end dropped on me a while ago, and while I've learned a lot since, I am still trying to learn everything I need to moderate as well as support our staff who want to be able to reach out to all of our members at the same time. I've been asked to create a list from the forum database of all active members' email addresses. However, sending a message via the forums stalls at 100 emails because our host limits us to 100 emails per day, and we have probably 300 active members we want to reach out to. So we're going to use another service to actually reach out to our members. Hence the need for the list.

I know that I can run a query in phpmyadmin and get email addresses, but I have no idea how to actually do it.

Is there anyone who could walk me through the process, privately or here?

I'd like to be able to make sure that only people who have logged in and posted in the last year get the email, if that helps with how to set up the query.


Thanks very much!
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Executing SQL Queries in phpMyAdmin

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SELECT user_email FROM phpbb_users WHERE user_type <>2 AND user_lastpost_time >  UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - 31536000 
If your table prefix is not phpbb_ change accordingly.

You will want to export the query result as CSV, which will give you a file you can past into an email client group.
Last edited by stevemaury on Thu May 23, 2019 4:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Edited to replace NOW() with UNIX_TIMESTAMP()
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Or use this extension
viewtopic.php?t=2326086
Sorry! My English is bat ;) !!!
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The query above neither honors the user setting "Administrators can send me e-mails" (those who unticked it will still be in your address list), nor banned users. A more appropriate query would be (in MySQL/MariaDB slang):

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SELECT DISTINCT u.user_email  -- Fold identical address into being listed only once
  FROM phpbb_users u
  LEFT JOIN phpbb_banlist bu ON bu.ban_userid= u.user_id  -- Exclude bans per member ID
  LEFT JOIN phpbb_banlist be ON be.ban_email= u.user_email  -- Exclude bans per e-mail address
 WHERE u.user_type IN( 0, 3 )  -- Only normal and founders, neither deactivated nor ignored
   AND u.user_email<> ''  -- Empty addresses might occur
   AND u.user_allow_massemail<> 0  -- Only members who opted in
   AND coalesce( bu.ban_start, unix_timestamp() )<= unix_timestamp()
   AND coalesce( bu.ban_end, unix_timestamp()+ 1 )>= unix_timestamp()
   AND (bu.ban_userid IS NULL OR bu.ban_exclude<> 0)
   AND coalesce( be.ban_start, unix_timestamp() )<= unix_timestamp()
   AND coalesce( be.ban_end, unix_timestamp()+ 1 )>= unix_timestamp()
   AND (be.ban_email IS NULL OR be.ban_exclude<> 0)
 ORDER BY u.user_email
The NOW() from the post above is wrong when used arithmetically and in MySQL/MariaDB. Its intention was to exclude all members which haven't posted for more than 365 days (which doesn't honor those still visiting daily).
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I've been asked to create a list from the forum database of all active members' email addresses.
Banned users are not (necessarily) inactive. The <>2 eliminates inactive users.
The NOW() from the post above is wrong when used arithmetically and in MySQL/MariaDB.
How so?
Its intention was to exclude all members which haven't posted for more than 365 days (which doesn't honor those still visiting daily).
Which is what the OP asked for. Posters, not visitors:
I'd like to be able to make sure that only people who have logged in and posted in the last year get the email,
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  1. Yes, but it doesn't eliminate ignored users. They can still have e-mail addresses. Or posts. Unrelated to why those may exist.
  2. Because it does so, just like the manual also tells. I even looked up if phpBB 3.2.7 now didn't store Unix timestamps anymore but uses another format, just to make sure. You should never find a NOW() in any SQL for phpBB - did you use that before?
  3. Touché - didn't even read that part. I wonder if sekellas really means "in the last year" (2018 in Gregorian) or wrongly synonymized the last 365 days.
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Thank you. In my 3.2.7 users table, Unix Timestamps appear to be being used:
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I looked at the manual link you gave, and see now that NOW() does not return a Unix Timestamp. I should have used UNIX_TIMESTAMP()

I assumed he meant 365 days prior to the running of the query.
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