Can I send an summary email or RSS feed daily to subscribers?

[fastrack1]

I have noticed that I get much more activity on my forum if the subscriber has signed up for a instant or daily email notifications of new threads, etc. Instead of trying to educate all my members on how to do this, is there a setting in the software where I can make everyone get a summary email or notification each day of all the threads that took place that day?

[Trevor Hannant]

AdminCP > Maintenance > Execute SQL Query

And pick the appropriate subscription you wish to set everyone to from the dropdown.

Make sure that your userid is able to run queries by editing the following section of the config.php file:

// ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
 // The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
 // See the above entries for more information on the format.
 // Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
 // to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = 'x';

where 'x' is your userid.

[fastrack1]

I'm sorry, but I just don't do this enough to remember where all this stuff is at. Where is the config.php file? I'm in cPanel looking for it now. Also, when you edit this file, do you download it, edit it, and then upload it again? I've never done this. Any instruction on that?

It did tell me that I don't have permission to run queries, so I do need to do these steps. Thanks for the patience.

[Trevor Hannant]

The config.php file is in the 'includes' folder. You can either edit it directly in the cPanel File Manager (although it can be a bit temperamental) or download, change and save it before re-uploading it again.