Sep

20

2011

New Topic Email Notifications to Every Member in Mingle Forum WordPress Plugin

WordPress  Posted by on September 20th, 2011 / 8 comments
Tags:
mingle-forum-update

Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog.

Email notifications in Mingle Forums is one area which needs improvement. My client wanted a feature where every member would get email notifications for any new topic started by any user. Since it’s not available in the existing features of Mingle Forum Plugin, I added it myself and you can also very easily integrate this in your forums by adding following code in your plugin class file.

Step 1

Open: plugins/mingle-forum/wpf.class.php

Find code: function notify_starter

Add following function below after the function closed curly bracket:

 
function notify_all_users($thread, $subject, $content, $date){
 
		global $wpdb, $user_ID;
 
		$users = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_email FROM {$wpdb->users} ORDER BY user_login ASC");
 
		$submitter = get_userdata($user_ID);
 
		$submitter_name = $this->get_userdata($user_ID, $this->options['forum_display_name']);
 
		$submitter_email = $submitter->user_email;
 
			$sender = get_bloginfo("name");
 
			$subject = __("New Topic:", "mingleforum")." '$subject'.";
 
			$message = __("DETAILS:", "mingleforum")."<br/><br/>".
 
				__("Name:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_name."<br/>".
 
				//__("Email:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_email."<br/>".
 
				__("Date:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->format_date($date)."<br/>".
 
				__("Reply Content:", "mingleforum")."<br/>".$content."<br/><br/>".
 
				__("View Topic Here:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->get_threadlink($thread);
 
			$replyto = get_bloginfo("admin_email");
 
			$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
 
				"From: ".$sender." "."<".$replyto.">\n" . 	
 
				"Content-Type: text/HTML; charset=\"" . get_option('blog_charset') . "\"\r\n";    		  						
 
		foreach($users as $u){
 
			$to = $u->user_email;
 
				if(!empty($to))
 
					wp_mail($to, $subject, make_clickable(convert_smilies(wpautop($this->output_filter(stripslashes($message))))), $headers);
 
		}	
 
 
	}

Step 2

Open: plugins/mingle-forum/wpf-insert.php

Find following code:

 
$mingleforum->notify_starter($id, $subject, $content, $date);

Comment the above line and add this below:

 
  //$mingleforum->notify_starter($id, $subject, $content, $date);	
 
    $mingleforum->notify_all_users($id, $subject, $content, $date);

Please note that this will start sending email notifications of every new topic to all your forums members. You might want to increase the max_execution_time in your php.ini to 0 (unlimited) or at least much higher than the default 30 seconds, otherwise your script might timed out before completing the sending request.

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