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Kent
Junior Member
United States
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 Posted - 08 September 2003 : 14:26:43
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Those of us with large, active forums (I have close to 5,000 members) need the ability to email a selected subset of those members at different times, for different reasons. So, how difficult would it be to develop a "utility" that would:
1. Provide a form that would allow you to select members to be mailed from FORUM_MEMBERS using a SQL query (much like Table Editor has a built in capability to display records based on a SQL query)...
2. Display the list of the members selected by that querry (so you can confirm that you've selected the correct ones), along with a text input form for the body of the email...
3. When you input the text body of the email, and click confirm, sends the email, using the email program that you have setup for your forum...
While this isn't as elaborate at it could be, it would be a very flexible, powerful utility program... and force some of us to learn a bit more SQL  ... |
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Kent
Junior Member
United States
193 Posts |
Posted - 12 September 2003 : 11:13:00
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Bump...
No questions or comments? I thought this would be a quite useful utility program for many admins, but I guess not...
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 14 September 2003 : 02:08:44
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| Yes it would be quite handy, it also wouldnt be very hard to code either, letting people "Query" your database needs to be coded very carefully though to ensure its not vulnerable to abuse or SQL injections etc. |
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Kent
Junior Member
United States
193 Posts |
Posted - 14 September 2003 : 22:30:54
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Thanks, Gremlin... I was beginning to wonder if I was totally off-base or something...
I was thinking of this only for the Admins, not the general members, and password protected like all the other admin functions... |
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Kent
Junior Member
United States
193 Posts |
Posted - 06 January 2004 : 21:53:19
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Originally posted by volition
Among other things, I would like to e-mail members who have not been around in a few months and tell them to log in or we will delete their accounts.
You may want to look at the inactive users mod -- it is intended for some of those purposes. |
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