Please see this forum post on a call for ideas on HTML Newsletter templates.  I have known jaded for years and her work is exemplorary!  Do please give her some input on what you would like to see by way of fancy newsletter templates.  Challenge her!  :-)

I know, I know, am I ever really going to make up my mind about PHP5-only or not and what to do with the HTML Newsletter.  Well, since I was already about 50% through development of the 1.4 release AND the module is in RavenNuke(tm) which is still slated to support PHP4 for some time to come, I am changing my mind.  The 1.x branch will continue to be developed, and I will not make a conscience effort to make it break under PHP4.  Promise. 

My goal has never changed: to support this community of *nukers as best I can with the time allowed.  I had to be reminded of that and so existing products from this site that currently run under both PHP4 and PHP5, will continue to do so.  However, I still reserve the right to only do bug fixes on any and all products.  Most likely, only HTML Newsletter will be enhanced under the 1.x branch.  1.x will be reserved for PHP4 compatible and 2.x will be for PHP5-only as time goes on, even new products released after today will follow this "branch" versioning system.

It is with some regrets that I have to cancel my work on the 1.4 Version of HTML Newsletter!  I had made really good progress over my holiday break at the end of last year and so was hopeful to get a new release out before my February 5th deadline for PHP5, the last in the 1.x branch of this project.  However, life and other commitments have basically left me with no time to crack open the code again in the last three weeks.

I will certainly carry forward the features and functions that I had already completed as well as all the great feedback that I have received over the years in terms of desired functionality into the PHP5-only 2.x branch.  But, I am going to do a more thorough review of the Newsletter tool market in order to ensure I am capturing all of the key features that are truly needed (based upon current demand within other products).  This next release may take me two years to complete, OR, more likely, I'll phase in true OOP concepts into the HTML Newsletter and treat the 2.x branch as a "transition" branch.  In addition, the next release, 2.0, will be renamed to simply TegoNuke(tm) Newsletter to fold it in under the TegoNuke(tm) brand name like everything else.

Sorry for this, but what can one do?  There are much more important things in life such as your personal relationship with God and with your various relationships in time, such as a spouse, your family, your close friends, co-workers, etc.  Montego Scripts is just a hobby for me.

Regards,
montego

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have completed the planning phase of version 1.4.0 of the HTML Newsletter, the last release within the 1.x branch, hopefully prior to the February 8th PHP5 deadline!  Here is a preview of some of the improvements planned (subject to change based on time constraints):

• Improve upon data escaping/encoding and XHTML compliance, quoting and formatting (applying lessons learned from RavenNuke(tm) development.
• Add integration to TegoNuke(tm) Mailer (an advanced mailer that I added to the upcoming RavenNuke(tm) 2.2.0 release)
• Add Ability to Change Sender Email Address
• Add Ability to Remove Forum Topics From the List
• Add Ability to Configure Show/Hide Hits on Articles
• Add Editor Support for Nuke 7.7+ (a "maybe")
• Provide Link to Newsletter if Mail Client Cannot Display HTML (and possibly utilize TegoNuke(tm) Mailer's ability to send multi-format emails, i.e., both text and HTML)
• Allow Ability for Admin to Set Email Priority Prior to Send
• Add Ability to Change the Addy for the FROM Address
• Add Support for Large Nbr Recipients (only if have time, as it might be more suited for my planned complete re-write under PHP5)
• Add Ability to Save Newsletter Drafts (only if have time, and this also implies changing over to store the newsletters in the database rather than on the file system - reduces security risk)
  
• And, last, but certainly not least, a few bug fixes along the way.

Hopefully this list has some items in it that the community will find useful. I can tell you that my 2.0 re-write list is 20x larger!

It has been way too long in coming and I really need to get re-invigorated with working on the HTML Newsletter. I have collected 30 enhancements so far in my tracking system!

With RavenNuke 2.10.00 nearling closure, I am starting to plan out the features for 1.4. I have also decided to start working in parallel a new 2.0 branch that will be considerably different in terms of architecture and flexibility for plugging in new features and new data sources into your newsletters.

Stay tuned... montego

A new language pack for French has been added to our Downloads. Thank you Stefvar!

Regards,
montego

I have just posted a fix to the Persian Nuke version of the HTML Newsletter. The send of the mail did not have the right charset identified. You can find the post here.

Izone has graciously created a modified version of the HTML Newsletter module specifically for Persian Nuke. The language files have been translated and the module has been modified to support the right-to-left orientation of the Persian language as well as to produce a proper date format. Get it here at Montego Scripts. Support will be provided for this version ONLY on the forums at http://iranyad.com.

A few minor enhancements have been made to version 1.3.0 as well as some bug fixes, most critically affecting nuke versions 7.4 or less. The full distribution has been updated with this patch and is now versioned at 01.03.01. The patch release involves the replacement of a few files and then an installer to update your version number to 01.03.01 (this is a delta patch release).

Both may be obtained here: Latest Downloads. Sorry, but our policy has changed. Registration is now required to download the latest versions of our tools and has always been required to use our support forums. Older archived versions will still be available without registration. Click on the Read More link to see the latest features / fixes available in this release.

I just wanted to make a friendly reminder to those who have downloaded and are using the HTML Newsletter module: ALL visible copyrights must remain visible! Per GPL, you are not allowed to remove those.

Additionally, if you plan on re-distributing this tool or using any of the code for other things and distributing, you MUST carry forward the script copyright comments into that code. You can certainly add your own copyrights, but you are required by GPL to retain the original copyrights as they were provided to you in the original distribution.

If you want *free*, you have to play by the rules.

Thank you