[dollars5]

Send Announcement v0.2
Credit goes to Vinoth for creaing it and Kbeeveer46 for making a module of it; am posting on behalf of them. Original thread having detailed discussion located in General help is at http://www.pligg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4337

Changes:
1] New version of Send Announcement to use $db global - so no more opening and editing files for DB values.

2] Also the empty subject and message were displaying a {#Pligg_...#} messages- fo now we have hard-coded to use English text strings.

New version available from http://www.pligg.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1172063361

Note to Kbeeveer46 - please review it and integrate with trunk version in the SVN.

[savant]

hi

this module is only to be used by the admin right?

Currently there is no method checking the user level of the current user.

force_authentication();
$canIhaveAccess = 0;
$canIhaveAccess = $canIhaveAccess + checklevel('god');

you can add this at the top of sendannouncement_showpage()

if $canihaveaccess != 1 then the user is not god, so display a sendannouncement_error.tpl

[dollars5]

hi savant,

Thanks for noting it m8, I will try to add this too, that it doesnot gets into wrong hands other than god and come up with a better release tomorrow. Did you find any other problems? Should you - please do report in here that we can try to fix it.

Thanks for the code too.

[kbeeveer46]

version 2 has been commited to the SVN and savant's authentication code was also added.

[dollars5]

Wow and thanks.

[nzbullet]

Can you put html into the "message" field, so that the e-mail that gets sent will have your site logo, background, styles etc??

[dollars5]

Sure you can - feel free to play with it - I have had success sending html e-mails.

[nzbullet]

Originally Posted by dollars5

Sure you can - feel free to play with it - I have had success sending html e-mails.

Hi dollars,

Did you have to edit anything to get it to send html. I have just tried and I just get the the source and not the images. This is what the received email looks like:

<img src ="http://www.linka.co.nz/files/linkaemail.png">

Hey everyone,

Have you been to <a href="http://www.linka.co.nz">Linka</a> lately? We have had a complete makeover!

With new features such as the Video Category and the Video Walls and a great new look we are sure you will love it.

Come and have a look.

[chuckroast]

hi linka

Most email software now has images off by default. Google and Yahoo and both prime examples. So even if you do get it to send out the image, it's the email client on the other end that will still cause headaches. I would recommend sticking to text only.

[nzbullet]

Thanks Chuckroast,

What about hyperlinks though? it wouldn't even accept those?