[Done 1.4.1] Send Email/IM By Member Group 1.3

[Jack.R.Abbit]

So even though the "rules and regs" from almost a year ago said not to touch the Admin.php file for a couple of weeks but no update has been made about it... I went ahead and decided to release a mod that does just that.

I made a few changes to the Admin.php so that when you click on the "Email your Members" link you now get a list of Member Groups (that have members assigned) with check boxes.  When you click next, only the members in the selected groups will be in the address field for the email.

emailbygroupmod - updated 10/22/02

Updates:
10/14/02 - fixed a bug that was not showing the default member groups that are based on number of posts.

10/17/02 - fixed a bug that was not showing the Admin and GlobMod member groups if the display title has been changed.  Also added logic to create a moderators only (Not Global Mods) email group and put in filters to eliminate duplicate emails due to member fitting into more than one group.

10/22/02 - Added the option to send the members an IM rather than an email.  You must uninstall old version before installing this one!

Enjoy!

I should mention that be sure to back up your data before applying this, or any, mod.  As it is still in beta, I can offer no guarantee.  Everything I post works fine in my YaBB installation but your milage may vary.

-Jack

[Coyote]

Hi,

Great Mod, Just one thing missing realy - how can it be changed to so that it will detect all the membergroups off the table?

It only seems to have Admins and Global Moderators - but it would be nice to have all groups.

If thats not possible, can a third option which selects All members be added?

I did take a look at admin.php - but it kind of scared  me

Thanks for this.

Tony.

[Jack.R.Abbit]

I am not seeing the same problem.  On my board, the mod lists each member group that has one or more members in it. This includes the custom added member groups.

Here is how it works: It queries the membergroup table and then for each member group in the table it queries for a list of members belonging to that group.  If it finds members in that group it lists it.  If it finds none it does not list it.  If you have properly added member groups and assigned members to those groups, I see no reason why it is not listing all the groups that have members in.

Also, this mod was built using YabbSE 1.4.1.  I have never used anything prior to this version therefore can not support anything prior.

-Jack

[groundup]

this is just a notice to all mod-makers (since you mentioned it).. it is perfectly okay to edit your admin.php

[Coyote]

Hi,

I am using 1.4.1 and the only groups that I can see in the panel are admins and Gobal moderators.

All other members are in the groups that dictated by the amount of posts they have done.

For instance newbies = 10 posts or more

Am I doing something wrong?

Tony

[Jack.R.Abbit]

OK I see the problem but I am not sure if it is a YabbSE bug or not.  I will look into it. I don't use the built in member groups based on number of posts so I did not realize that when a user advances through these levels, it is not reflected in their member profile.  Yabb should do that.  I'll see if there is a fix.  Sorry until then.

-Jack

[Coyote]

Thanks Jack,

It much appreciated

Tony.

[Jack.R.Abbit]

Tony,

fixed the problem.  see first post.

Thanks for using the mod and letting me know the problem.

-Jack

[Coyote]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for fixing it.

Its the first time I have used yabb packs as I have heard that they mess up all the time.

I must say that I have used your yabb packs on my live board and my test board and they all work fine

Whats the best way to apply this yabbpack now that I have the old one installed? shall I just appply over the top?

Thanks again.
Tony.

[Jack.R.Abbit]

Actually, I have heard both good and bad things about the YabbPak system.  But then again I have also heard good and bad things about BoardMod also.  So I decided to start by using the system that is built into the board itself.  I think a lot of times the "bad" results you get from mods are due to mods written to work for a specific board but don't translate well to aonther, modded board.  Just like what happened with this mod.   I can honestly say that the only times my board has been screw up was when I forgot to get the latest modded file from the server before I started makeing more changes so it wrote over the mod.  The Package Manager sems to doa  good job.  There are a few strange things about it when creating a mod, but they can be worked around and noone is the wiser.

The best thing to do is uninstall the previous mod, download the new mod aned reinstall it.  I don't know how board mod does it exactly, but with the "search and replace" and "search and add", if you apply a mod over itself, you will likely get duplicate entries where there was an add, and you will fail to find the things that have already been replaced.

-Jack

[Coyote]

Thanks Jack.

I will try and use the Package Manager(Yabb Pack) removal feature then

I was just a bit hesitant about using it

Thanks Again.

Tony.

[nferreri]

well, for some reason mine isn't showing the admins or global moderators.  it is, however, showing the custom groups.

I have these listed:

Bashful
Jr. Poster
Guild Member
Trial Member
Class Leader

It most definetely doesn't show all the post groups either.  Only 2 of them.  The other 3 are custom groups (not related to posts).

I'm gonna play around a bit and see if I can figure out what the problem is.

[Coyote]

I noticed this,

What I did was go into the profile of a newbie - and change his status to ---------- instead of blank

It then detected Newbies

I have only tried this on my test board, not the live system.

I still need to update my live system with the new update

[nferreri]

Well, apparently this method of code isn't going to work very well with anyone who has customized their group names.

This sytem takes all member group names from the membergroups table, then does a query to find all matches against that name from the members table.  If the group doesn't have any members in it then it won't display the group.

That logic is fine.. but for the case of Administrator and Global Moderator it's not going to work.

Global moderators are stored member group names as GLOBAL MODERATOR NOT the text displayed in the membergroups table.  Same for Admin.  It's stored as Administrator in the member table but this NOT the same as what a custom title would be in the membergroups table...

need special cases in the code for these instances.

Also, the moderator group isn't going to work unless you do special query to find out who has special access to forums.  I guess this one isn't too important though.

I'm gonna fiddle around with adding some more if statements and letcha know what I come up with.

[nferreri]

I added these lines to the if statements and it seemed to work fine:

         } else if ($curgroup == $membergroups[0]) {
            $rqst = mysql_query("SELECT emailAddress FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE memberGroup='Administrator'");
         } else if ($curgroup == $membergroups[7]) {
            $rqst = mysql_query("SELECT emailAddress FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE memberGroup='Global Moderator'");

      } else if ($curgroup == $membergroups[0]) {
         $rqst = mysql_query("SELECT memberGroup,posts FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE memberGroup='Administrator'");
      } else if ($curgroup == $membergroups[7]) {
         $rqst = mysql_query("SELECT memberGroup,posts FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE memberGroup='Global Moderator'");

I guess these will work assuming everyone has Admin as ID #1 and Global Moderator as ID #8 which I'm pretty sure is the case.

please note:  the first else if is membergroups (left bracket)0(right bracket)

not quite sure how to make it so YaBB doesn't turn that into an ordered list.