The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 7.0.5 [K 7.0.5] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 5.4.x/6.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 / K 6.4 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 7.0.
The Kunena team is also pleased to announce the eleventh version of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 6.0.
This category contains miscellaneous, uncategorised user contributions, (templates, modules, plugins and hacks) relating to older versions of Kunena that are no longer supported.
The topics in this category are for historical interest only. Owing to the structural changes that occurred in K 2.0, many of the ideas in these topics will not work with later versions and, for that reason, the topics are locked.
It only works for new users. It wouldn't be that difficult to implement a feature into Kunena that ran the sql query you see in the code on a choosen user, but that was beyond the scope of my project and I don't know how to accomplish this with a plugin- as a result it would be more of a code hack that can't be easily disabled if I wrote poor code.
I did have a few existing users in my board when I implemented the plugin. What I choose to do was to manually modify the kunena_subscriptions_categories table with the appropriate catid and userid. If you had a lot of users this process would be pretty time consuming but you could write a sql query that selected all userid. If working with the database directly is out of your comfort zone let me know, I don't mind helping you.
For a small website with low traffic (local community website) the auto subscription feature is a must. Not all users are geeks like me / us, and only just know how to check emails and simple browsing. They may only check the forum once a month and miss out on new topics / threads.
This feature helps notify them of new news and they come and check.
thanks, i have a need of this feature for a neighborhood watch program. most of my users are not very sophisticated when it come to forums. i'll see how it works and reply back. thanks!
I've implemented ACLs within my forum now. Everything seems to be going well too! I've now implemented the auto subscription plugin that someone kindly shared (thank you!). Here's the interesting thing. The new user is subscribed to all categories regardless of privileges.
The new user can only view what he had been given privileges in joomla so that's unaffected. They also don't get emails with messages from categories they don't have privileges to but are still automatically subscribed to so that's good. I'm still concerned since I'm still new to kunena. Can anyone give me ideas as to what kind of conflicts or problems may show up in the future if I leave the system functioning this way?
I think what I have in mind is a form of an opt-out rather than opt-in subscription system. The admin could configure it in the backend to auto subscribe selected user groups or all registered users. But in the email notification that goes out to the users there could be a link to allow them to unsubscribe to either the topic or the whole category or simply not to receive further notification until they visit the board.
The user can also amend the subscription options in his profile preferences. This is more useful for small groups where users simply don't bother to go to the site to check on topics unless prompted to do so eg. we are using it on our association website to discuss association matters.
