[alpha] HTML emails

[haase]

Here's a snap-shot from my email inbox (and also a description of the mod):





You can download the zip, which contains the email template, and both Boardmod and YaBBPack version of the mod.
Download

[1979Z28]

Erm.. no screenshot and the link appears to be dead..

[David]

Erm.. no screenshot and the link appears to be dead..

Work fine for me.

[1979Z28]

*boggle* it's working now, lol. So, uh, nevermind Musta been my computer going weird

[haase]

we just had a mess of a thunderstorm go through...  could be some interference in my DSL line or something.

[haase]

For those of you who have already downloaded this mod, there was an error pointed out by MarcoMan at PfaBB.  I added a <replace> tag instead of a <add after> tag in the InstantMessages.php file.

The package has been updated, same link from the first post in the thread.

[oldiesmann]

Looks interesting... I may try it out

[groundup]

use tabs instead of spaces. Some places you are using spaces and some you are using tabs. you will save a bunch of the size of the file if you just did "spaces to tabs" or something on your editor.

Good job. I like it.

[haase]

yeah...  I always use tabs myself, but where-ever code has been lifted from somewhere else in the application, sometimes the spaces come in.  I'll have to clean it up for the next version, which will have admin and user ability to select which types of email to send/receive.

[Shadow's Pawn]

This is something I could really use.  I've downloaded it and will install later when I get time.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

[haase]

There are a couple of errors in some of the emails.  Particularly, the link in the notification email is bad, and also the Profile Page link in the new user registration email.

I hope to have updates by EOD.

What...  I *did* say it was an Alphe release...  

[haase]

Okay.  Updated files are available from the link in the first post.  There's a complete set, plus an upgrade file for those who need one.

[Grudge]

Can I offer a suggestion? I just wrote a mod to send out emails and I am having a problem because a user has your mod and the sendmail parameters have changed.

I was thinking that maybe in your modified sendmail function you could make the $message_text parameter default to NULL

ie:

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function sendmail($to, $subject, $message_html, $message_text = null, $from = null)

and then in the code just do a

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if($message_text==null)
$message_text=$message_html;

It will just mean that if any mods use sendmail on a board where your mod is installed it won't throw up an error.

I *think* that my changes should work :|

[haase]

I don't think I understand exactly what you are trying to do there.

The MIME format header I put in that function specified that the email consists of both an HTML and a text version.  The MIME format is multipart/alternative.

When the user's email client looks sees the header and finds out it's a multipart alternative, it pages through the email to find the boundry lines.  After each boundry line, there is a content tag

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Content-Type: text/plain

If the end user's email client is set to text only, it find the text only version as the alternative it wants and displays it.  If you go setting the message_text field to HTML values, then the end user is going to get a bunch of literal HTML tags in their email.  Frankly, there's nothing more disgusting.

I could personally think of a better option.  Your user has obviously installed this mod because he wants to send HTML emails.  It would follow that he wants whatever emails your mod is sending to also appear in HTML.  

I invite you, him, or anyone who has additional emails going out and is having sendmail problems to post their issues/mods in this thread.  I will in turn code the HTML portion of those emails/mods and post them here.

[haase]

I posted the HTML email fix to the Visual Warning mod in the Visual Warning thread.