Re: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum

[Ben Johansen]

What, I mean is you can call the @include within an IF action or @IF  
block. this would give you programatic control over when the @include  
code is called.

but, this would place your code inline, and as you said would be clunky

you need to do it async'ly, here are 2 ways

1. you can also use the @URL in async mode by setting  
"WAITFORRESULT=FALSE", this will allow you to call it and continue on.


2. another way of achieving async is using AJAX as Dale suggested

You call the code mailing.taf with an async call and have your called  
taf not return anything, (@purgeresults)



On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:26 AM, WebDude wrote:

I was trying to make the mailing taf seemless with the user  
experience... I have a bulk email program I use for other clients  
that sends an email every .5 seconds (using a redirect and a <@CALC  
<@ARG start>+1>)... works great and I was hoping to do the same with  
the notification. Short of time stamping the post and seeing if  
there was a response and running a cron job to send the  
notifications, I was thinking of firing off the bulk email when a  
post was made. The problem is that a branch or <@URL> takes the user  
through the redirects and then back to the post. Very clunky which  
is why I was toying with the idea of firing the external bulk email  
taf during the post without taking the user there...


M... Ben, what (how) do you mean by wrapped in an IF block?


From: Ben Johansen [mailto:b...@webspinr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for  
Forum


ah, maybe an include wrapped in an IF block

On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:59 PM, WebDude wrote:


Another qustion... may be easy, I don't know...

Is there any way to trigger a taf within another taf not using <@URL>

John Muldoon
Corporate Incentives
3416 Nicollet Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408-4552
612.822.
webd...@cipromo.com

http://cipromo.com



From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:23 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for  
Forum


Thanks Robert... Your idea was kind of whereI was leaning. As for  
the RSS feed... the forums already have that, but very few people  
actually use them. It seesm they would rather check a box then deal  
with readers.



From: Robert Shubert [mailto:rshub...@tronics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for  
Forum


You need a subscriptions table of sorts: which contains just the  
member_id and the master_thread_id
You can add rows when people signup to get a thread emailed and  
remove them when they opt-out.

Additional columns that come to mind are:
Primary key ID (not completely necessary for this type of table,  
but always helpful)
Active/Inactive flag so that you can turn subscriptions on and off  
(as opposed to deleting the row)
Number of emails sent: a counter for how many emails this  
subscription created, which would be interesting statistically
Then when a new post comes in for thread #483, you simply look up  
all the people that have subscribed to thread #483 and send them an  
email.
Also (and a little off-topic) you many want to consider adding RSS  
capabilities. It solves basically the same thing, but with less  
traffic.

Robert
From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:58 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum
Hey all,
I was wondering if some of you bright bulbs may be able to help me.
I have a forum I built that is 100% Witango. It has close to 8,000  
members and is fairly busy. I have several tables set up for the  
forum which include usertable (login, email, password, etc.),  
forummastertable (table of topics, threadnum, startdate, views,  
etc.) and threadtable (individual posts, masterthreadnum, postdate,  
user, etc).
This forum is rock solid and has been operating for over 5 years. I  
have built many bells and whistles into it and decided it would be  
nice to add an opt in email notification. I've seen this on other  
forums (a checkbox where you can get an email notification if  
someone replies to a particular thread), but I am having trouble  
trying to figure out just where to start and how to do this. I  
don't mean the programming specifically, but more the theory on how  
to set this up. I have been looking at other forums but cannot find  
any particular clue as to how this is done. Would I set up a table  
with the masterthreadnum and email address and when a topic is  
reponded to, query that table and send an email? This does not seem  
like a very efficient way to do this.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks!
   WebDude

MyFishingPals.com

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RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum

[WebDude]

I was trying to make the mailing taf seemless with the user experience... I
have a bulk email program I use for other clients that sends an email every
.5 seconds (using a redirect and a <@CALC <@ARG start>+1>)... works great
and I was hoping to do the same with the notification. Short of time
stamping the post and seeing if there was a response and running a cron job
to send the notifications, I was thinking of firing off the bulk email when
a post was made. The problem is that a branch or <@URL> takes the user
through the redirects and then back to the post. Very clunky which is why I
was toying with the idea of firing the external bulk email taf during the
post without taking the user there...
 
M... Ben, what (how) do you mean by wrapped in an IF block?
 

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From: Ben Johansen [mailto:b...@webspinr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:04 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum


ah, maybe an include wrapped in an IF block 

On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:59 PM, WebDude wrote:



Another qustion... may be easy, I don't know...
 
Is there any way to trigger a taf within another taf not using <@URL>
 
John Muldoon
Corporate Incentives
3416 Nicollet Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408-4552
612.822.
webd...@cipromo.com


  http://cipromo.com
 
 

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From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:23 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum


Thanks Robert... Your idea was kind of whereI was leaning. As for the RSS
feed... the forums already have that, but very few people actually use them.
It seesm they would rather check a box then deal with readers.
 

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From: Robert Shubert [mailto:rshub...@tronics.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum


You need a subscriptions table of sorts: which contains just the member_id
and the master_thread_id

You can add rows when people signup to get a thread emailed and remove them
when they opt-out.

Additional columns that come to mind are:

Primary key ID (not completely necessary for this type of table, but always
helpful)
Active/Inactive flag so that you can turn subscriptions on and off (as
opposed to deleting the row)
Number of emails sent: a counter for how many emails this subscription
created, which would be interesting statistically

Then when a new post comes in for thread #483, you simply look up all the
people that have subscribed to thread #483 and send them an email.

Also (and a little off-topic) you many want to consider adding RSS
capabilities. It solves basically the same thing, but with less traffic.

Robert


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From: WebDude [mailto:webd...@cipromo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:58 AM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Witango-Talk: OT... sort of - Topic Notification for Forum

Hey all,

I was wondering if some of you bright bulbs may be able to help me.

I have a forum I built that is 100% Witango. It has close to 8,000 members
and is fairly busy. I have several tables set up for the forum which include
usertable (login, email, password, etc.), forummastertable (table of topics,
threadnum, startdate, views, etc.) and threadtable (individual posts,
masterthreadnum, postdate, user, etc).

This forum is rock solid and has been operating for over 5 years. I have
built many bells and whistles into it and decided it would be nice to add an
opt in email notification. I've seen this on other forums (a checkbox where
you can get an email notification if someone replies to a particular
thread), but I am having trouble trying to figure out just where to start
and how to do this. I don't mean the programming specifically, but more the
theory on how to set this up. I have been looking at other forums but cannot
find any particular clue as to how this is done. Would I set up a table with
the masterthreadnum and email address and when a topic is reponded to, query
that table and send an email? This does not seem like a very efficient way
to do this.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

   WebDude

  MyFishingPals.com




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