TOPIC: DT Register 2.7.18 - Auto Email Reminders & More

On July 4, 2012, we released DT Register 2.7.18! This update contains a number of fixes but shines with some fabulous new functionality. We've also added another payment gateway integration, which is WorldPay, with the help of our friends at Barclay Works and Channel2Market. For other details of the update, see below...

FEATURES & FIXES in 1.7/2.5 version Only:

- Added a robust auto email reminder and follow up feature!! Existing users are going to love this. Setup a cron job to trigger the emails. You create as many reminder emails as you need. Set the number of days prior to an event for the email to be triggered. This can also be a negative number so the email can be sent AFTER the event as a follow up! Nice, huh? Further, these emails will apply to all events unless you specify the email for a specific event. Even further, you can upload attachments to each of these emails. Fabulous!
- Enhanced the existing User Group assignment for the auto-user creation feature (exists in default configuration as well as custom per event). You can now select multiple user groups, so users can be created with multiple group assignments. ALSO... if an existing user registers for an event and is not already a part of the selected user group(s), that user will be assigned also to the selected group(s)... without replacing existing assignments.
- Enhanced the records search feature to improve speed, but also modified so it includes group members! Now, when you click the members link like "3 Members", the member info shows in a lightbox window instead of a new page... improving the overall management of group members.
- Added parameter to events so you can set a custom confirmation number prefix PER EVENT. Nice!
- Updated the Upcoming Events Module with two new features: ability to display the event price with or without taxes... and ability to display the event image. Of course, you can set the size of the image.
- Fixed issue to prevent the creation of negative amounts for a registration record.
- Fixed issue with editing records while duplicate registration prevention is enabled.

FEATURES & FIXES in BOTH versions for 1.5 / 1.7 / 2.5:

- Added support for WorldPay, a leading European payment gateway.
- Made improvements to the records search feature to improve speed.
- Fixed issue where email attachments for an event would be lost when copying the event.
- Fixed issue where adding new events to the cart would drop the previous event (bug only in Joomla 1.5 version)
- Other miscellaneous fixes / tweaks included.

Now, really, does any other event registration tool for Joomla go as deep and give the level of flexibility that DT Register does? No contest!!

Today, we updated the package to 2.7.18a to address a few items:

BOTH 1.5 / 2.5 Versions:

- Fixed the EDIT function on the cart view for proper editing of records from the cart.
- Fixed the billing info page so zip code and country properly auto-populated like other fields already did.
- Updated the new WorldPay integration so the billing page was skipped prior to redirecting to WorldPay as it wasn't necessary. Also improved population of fields on the redirect.

1.5 Version:

- Updated the Upcoming Events Module to include tax display and event image display. This was already added in the 2.5 version.

REMINDER VIDEO TUTORIAL:

Excited about the new auto email reminder and follow up feature? We are too See this video tutorial for details and help on this great new functionality!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiVLbMDbouE

Package did not install cron.php when I installed it.
/usr/bin/php -f /home/bulldog/public_html/members/components/com_dtregister/cron.php
cron says No input file specified.
DT Register 2.7.18a
Joomla 2.5.6

Yikes, you are right! The install was missing one line of code to load this new file. We've updated the package to 2.7.18b which includes a fix for this. So you can either reinstall, which will load the cron.php file... or you can just manually upload this file out of the unzipped install package and load it to:
/components/com_dtregister/