Another qustion... may be easy, I don't know...
 
Is there any way to trigger a taf within another taf not using <@URL> 
 
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From: WebDude [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:23 AM
To: [email protected]
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:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
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:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:58 AM
To: [email protected]
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

    

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