Latest Threads Monthly Email [Deleted]

[Brent W]

BamaStangGuy submitted a new resource:

Latest Threads Monthly Email (version 1.0.0) - Sends an email once a month highlighting your most recent threads

This add-on was born from this add-on: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/monthly-whats-new-email.912/

I was not happy with that version because it pulled based on new posts and not on new threads.

This version pulls the latest threads based on creation date. You have an option in Options > Monthly "Whats New" Email to set how many topics it will pull.

This also makes sure that banned users are not included in the email, which the original version did not take into...

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[Brent W]

BamaStangGuy updated Latest Threads Monthly Email with a new update entry:

Added a screen shot and instructions to edit email message.

You must enable debug mode and edit the admin email template to customize the email message.


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[Allan]

Do you have a screen to mail please ?

 

[DRE]

How to make this 4 times a year?

 

[Mark3121]

And can you pick a specific forum to prune from?

 

[Chris D]

How to make this 4 times a year?

You can't.

It's done via a cron entry so it can be set to: Monthly, Weekly, Daily or Hourly.

And can you pick a specific forum to prune from?

Prune? Do you mean fetch threads from a specific forum? Currently the add-on fetches threads only from forums that are public. There's no interface to specify a specific forum, but I could probably suggest a code edit...

 

[DRE]

If you disable it every three months and hit run cron u can lol.

Didn't want to resort to that but i will.

Thanks for making this.

 

[Chris D]

To manually specify forum IDs to pull from:

Open library/MonthlyEmails/Model/Email.php

Delete the code in red:

	protected function _getRecentPublicThreads()
	{
		$nodeModel = $this->getModelFromCache('XenForo_Model_Node');
		$nodes = $nodeModel->getAllNodes(false, true);
		$nodePermissions = $nodeModel->getNodePermissionsForPermissionCombination(1);
        
		$nodeHandlers = $nodeModel->getNodeHandlersForNodeTypes(
			$nodeModel->getUniqueNodeTypeIdsFromNodeList($nodes)
		);
		
		$nodes = $nodeModel->getViewableNodesFromNodeList($nodes, $nodeHandlers, $nodePermissions);
        
		$options = XenForo_Application::get('options');
        
		foreach ($nodes as $node)
		{
			$nodeIds[] = $node['node_id'];
		}
        
		$conditions = array(
			'node_id' => $nodeIds);
        	
		$fetchOptions = array(
			'order' => 'post_date',
			'limit' => $options->monthlyEmailsThreadLimit);
        
		$threadModel = $this->getModelFromCache('XenForo_Model_Thread');
        
		$threads = $threadModel->getThreads($conditions, $fetchOptions);
        
		return $threads;
	}

In its place, add:

			$nodeIds = array(
				'2',
				'3',
				'4'
			);

The resulting code will look like:

	protected function _getRecentPublicThreads()
	{
		$nodeIds = array(
			'2',
			'3',
			'4'
		);
        
		$conditions = array(
			'node_id' => $nodeIds);
        	
		$fetchOptions = array(
			'order' => 'post_date',
			'limit' => $options->monthlyEmailsThreadLimit);
        
		$threadModel = $this->getModelFromCache('XenForo_Model_Thread');
        
		$threads = $threadModel->getThreads($conditions, $fetchOptions);
        
		return $threads;
	}

 

[Chris D]

Correction to the above:

DO NOT delete the line:

$options = XenForo_Application::get('options');

It is highlighted in red, but just delete the red lines before or after it.

 

[Mouth]

I installed, but don't appear to have the cron in /admin.php?cron/
Definantly installed the files and XML without error.
What did I miss?

 

[Chris D]

You must have missed something as the cron is definitely in the XML file:

  <cron>
    <entry entry_id="sendMonthlyEmails" cron_class="MonthlyEmails_CronEntry_MonthlyEmail" cron_method="sendEmails" active="1"><![CDATA[{"day_type":"dom","dom":["1"],"hours":["0"],"minutes":["0"]}]]></entry>
  </cron>

EDIT: Yes, you must have missed something. It's definitely there:

 

[kkm323]

Lovely this mod will increase the traffic for sure.
Thank you, I will try this as soon as I get home. I will gladly donate if you send me your payable account
Chris Deeming also deserve a donation as will. thank you so much for most of the work and codes you have put into this community.

 

[kkm323]

installed! I am now waiting for the emails

 

[Mouth]

@Rich - I would be interested in the tweaks you made too.

 

[Mouth]

Currently the add-on fetches threads only from forums that are public.

The add-on that this was "born from" says it only pulls from forums the emailed user is allowed to see. Does it still do that, or definantly only public one's? ie. will a user with access to a non-public forum get topics in their email that are included in that forum, or is that forum's topic excluded?

 

[Chris D]

@Rich - I would be interested in the tweaks you made too.

The add-on that this was "born from" says it only pulls from forums the emailed user is allowed to see. Does it still do that, or definantly only public one's? ie. will a user with access to a non-public forum get topics in their email that are included in that forum, or is that forum's topic excluded?

Who's Rich? And what tweaks?

The add-on this was born from has only ever pulled threads from public forums.

 

[Mouth]

Who's Rich? And what tweaks?

Comment at the bottom of http://xenforo.com/community/resources/latest-threads-monthly-email.1202/

The add-on this was born from has only ever pulled threads from public forums.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/monthly-whats-new-email.34495/#post-391895 suggests otherwise?

 

[Chris D]

Comment at the bottom of http://xenforo.com/community/resources/latest-threads-monthly-email.1202/


http://xenforo.com/community/threads/monthly-whats-new-email.34495/#post-391895 suggests otherwise?

I'm going by what I've seen in the code. It does not generate a list of nodes based on each user. It simply pulls the recent threads from public nodes.

 

[Mouth]

I'm going by what I've seen in the code. It does not generate a list of nodes based on each user. It simply pulls the recent threads from public nodes.

OK, thanks for clarification. Appreciate it.

 

[System0]

This seems like a great add on Bama. Is there a way for members to opt out of the monthly email?

Years ago I used the vbulletin monthly newsletter app and it brought it a lot of traffic. Many members didn't like it though so they opted out so that they didn't get emailed. Looking at the options, there doesn't seem to be an option for members to stop getting the monthly email....though perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.