I'm in the process of changing my board to be viewable to registered members only. It's a fishing site. Fishermen like to show off their catch to friends and family members. These people would never join the site, they'd only be interested in looking at what their friend or family member posted.

I'm looking for a way to allow people to share threads with friends and family via email, although the board will be closed to members-only.

I'm thinking of some kind of randomly generated log-in and password in the email link that automatically lets the user view the page (without going through the whole log-in process). Then, after some time, the link expires.

Another method could be some kind of export to an html page, generate a link, then email to the person. This page would eventually expire, too.

I've never installed or created a hack, so I'm looking for some help and will pay $.

Anyone want to attempt this?

Please let me know.

Thanks

Does the 'email post' not do what you want? I just emailed a post from the private forum here to myself and it sent it to me.

Allen, thanks. I just tested it out. It does indeed send the text of the post. Half the battle is won.

However, it does not send the photos that appear inline in the post. That's a key part.

If anyone can help me with that, problem solved!

so you just want an HTML version of the post instead of a .txt version?

i could do that for you..

let me know.

Thank you very much. I'll PM you so we can talk further.

FYI SirDude, he wants full content of the post including attachments, which isn't in the stock way that the email post feature works.

Yep, SirDude is on the case and we've connected via PM.

i figured that much (and more) out from the get go and thanks for the input

thanks mitchell

it was a pleasure!

btw, ubbthreads.inc.php has at least one bug in the mailer class that make HTML mails m00t. also i enhanced the class a wee bit. this needs to be fixed, at some point. don't know where to post this info, so i'll post the bug here.

(from memory)

change this->isHTML = true;

to

this->isHTML(true);

Bugs for the forum product itself need to be posted in the bugs forum at UBBCentral.

thanks for the fix, but for it to make it into the code it would be best posted in the bugs forum at www.ubbcentral.com as well.

forum seems perty dead over here AND there. is there a more thriving place to go for active modifications etc?

doesn't seem worth posting bugs for a product that looks to be slowly abandoned.

The only Threads7 mod community is here; the only UBB support communities are here and there.

How is it slowly abandoned? Rick's been slaving to push releases out on a regular basis...

i posted the fix

and to your reply, if this is the main place to find mods and hacks, then judging by the traffic here it's not anywhere near as active as i seem to remember it in the past.

the shout box is also an indicator, imo. nothing goin on over there either.

that's why i asked if there was another gathering of modders for this fine product.

where did all the modders (as compared to the past) go to or are they waiting for a new release from Rick before revving up their engines?

i also wish there was a list of upcoming things in 7.2x (prominently linked to), because I come to find out that some of the features Rick is putting in, were already added to my test 7.1.1 board in the course of not finding them here.

in the mean time, i've had to get a paypal sandbox account in order to add payment functionality into the 7.1x. That's a BIG feature that's gonzo with the upgrade (yes, i know it was an add-on, but net result is a loss of functionality when upgrading)

Re-adding the 'More mod powers hack' was easier this time, but i'd have expected that since there were hooks in there (Moderator='0') that it would prolly have been a CPanel / setup issue by now, rather than a re-hack/mod.

Bleh, bitch mode off..

I do appreciate the mods that you and others have done for 7.1x, but would love to see the activity in this community (mod wise) that would give me more of a warm/fuzzy as to future outlook of the product.

ps: and thanks to Rick for cranking out good / new stuff.

Well, it's good to keep in mind that Infopop/Groupee did cancel both Threads and Classic for a brief period, where a lot of people went to other forum solutions; this included a nice ammount of users here as well.

There is a list of upcoming items, Rick posts a "current changelog" of items he's working on, currently he's working on 7.2 so the current changelog reflects that.

We're always more than willing to help with new mods, even show people how things work so they can start writing them on their own; it's my hope that we'll pick up again soon.

Another thing to keep in mind is that some of our users are students (HS/College) and most of us work (may it be private dev or otherwise) and have families, so those all contend with time anymore .