Support/Comments for DitsNews 0.1-alpha

Quote from: fourroses666 at Feb 02, 2011, 05:10 PM

Sends a bulk of 50 emails every xxx (setting of cronjob) ?

Yes. Should be a setting, but is hardcoded for now. You can change it in the code if you wish

I wish i could, me phpnooby ;-)
Add it to TODO-list hehe, maybe someone will pick it up.

Also a test email send directly would be a nice feature!

Morning Folks,

Firstly, I’m a bit of a new arrival to DitsNews and Modx Revolution. I have attempted to install and configure DitsNews with little success. I have installed DitsNews via “Package Management” and created all the Templates and Chunks as required. I have created a “Cron Job” to what I believe to be the corrected path and configured Cpanel to send me an email every time the job runs, I have pasted the email contents below.


/home/applusrt/public_html/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php: line 1: ?php
: No such file or directory
/home/applusrt/public_html/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php: line 2:
: command not found
/home/applusrt/public_html/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `(’
/home/applusrt/public_html/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php: line 3: `require_once dirname(__FILE__).’/../../../../config.core.php’;
’

Can anyone please offer some direction to what the problem may be?

Thanks.

I think you forgot to add the path to PHP in your cron.

Example:
/usr/local/bin/php /path/to/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php

Change this to wherever php is located on your server.

Hi Jeroen Kenters,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I did see a similar post detailing the correct path to PHP however at that time I still did not get the Cron Job to run. Taking your advice, I revisited my Cpanel Cron Job options page and copied the path to PHP as you suggested and I worked perfectly!

Thanks again for your help.

to run a cronjob to that php file is much easier to just use wget


no need to know your path etc

only works on a linux host with wget installed

Quote from: Dimmy at Mar 23, 2011, 04:14 PM

to run a cronjob to that php file is much easier to just use wget

wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.yoursite.tld/core/components/ditsnews/cron/cron.php

no need to know your path etc

only works on a linux host with wget installed

While this might be easier, I would not recommend it for 2 reasons:
- when running in CGI (website) mode PHP usually times out faster than when running in CLI mode
- the core directory should not be web-accessible

Quote from: Jeroen at Mar 23, 2011, 05:32 PM

While this might be easier, I would not recommend it for 2 reasons:
- when running in CGI (website) mode PHP usually times out faster than when running in CLI mode
- the core directory should not be web-accessible

Of course it times out faster, but normally when some newsletters gets send...there’s no need for
a high timeout. Sending newsletters should be easy as pie for an average server (unless you parse
every newsletter whilst adding them to the queue (A))

I’m sorry to point out that the Dittsnews module is completely broken in MODx 2.1.1
It’s impossible to save any settings or other values.
I noticed that no database tables are being created.

Quote from: onepack at Jun 23, 2011, 05:09 AM

I’m sorry to point out that the Dittsnews module is completely broken in MODx 2.1.1
It’s impossible to save any settings or other values.
I noticed that no database tables are being created.

We are working on a complete new version of DitsNews. It’s about 80% done at the moment and will be released soon. Lot’s of bug fixes including 2.1 compatibility.