Newsletter Center V. 0.8 BETA

**mrmeech** · 15 Jun 2008, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by ARRSE

Hi Mr Meech,

I've also been following this thread with great interest and am also keen to see your mod progress. Can I help at all? Coding, debugging, testing or making a donation?

Great!

How well versed are you in PHP and with Zen Cart?

**ARRSE** · 15 Jun 2008, 08:43 AM

I'm a Java developer rather than PHP, but 'dabble' in PHP as we run quite a few PHP based sites. We've used a heavily modified Zen-Cart now a good few years now - some mods my own.

What I can do best perhaps is get specific coding jobs done - so if you can give me fairly precise needs, I'll look at it them, get it straight in my own head, then open it up for work if beyond me (time or PHP skill) - possibly on rent-a-coder. I'm quite happy to finance that within reason.

Maybe the best thing is to try and package a few problems for me and I'll try one way or another. If it proves that it's just an added complication or pain for you, then we won't have lost anything I suppose!

**mrmeech** · 14 Jul 2008, 02:00 AM

Hey Everyone -

This project has (unfortunately) turned into a stop and go project, and i REALLY want to finish it up this time around. Life is unscripted, and a few unexpected things have happened, but I'm ready to roll on this again and am curious to know how many of you are still interested in seeing this completed. A few of you have expressed interest in helping run the code through it's paces - are you guys still alive out there and interested?

**HeathenMagic** · 14 Jul 2008, 11:26 AM

Hello MrMeech,

Take your time, sounds like you have a lot on your plate. I am still very much interested in this. Please let me know what I can do, I will be happy to assist. Or if you want me to be a tester, let me know all the same.

All the best,

Heathenmagic

**travisseitler** · 14 Jul 2008, 01:52 PM

I am still very interested! My wife uses Newsletter Center 0.8 with her digital scrapbooking store, and we've been eagerly awaiting your update.

**athena** · 14 Jul 2008, 02:37 PM

I too am very interested in this. Keep me in the loop. This will be my first newsletter (july) without our service. I'm winging it with DrByte's suggestion "group mail."

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Jul 2008, 05:40 PM

ME, ME, ME
I cannot program a lick, but will help with beta testing on various sized lists.

JOhn ><>

**mrmeech** · 16 Jul 2008, 05:55 AM

Alright - The (small) tribe has spoken!

(...now i have to figure out where i left off, which is easier said than done..)

I'll keep you guys posted - And keep your eyes out for info on a new Thread. I don't really think "Newsletter Center" is descriptive enough for people looking for PHPList Newsletter solutions with Zen Cart. I'll fire that up when we get into running this beast through its paces.

**Stuff4Toys** · 16 Jul 2008, 02:28 PM

Please make sure you post the new thread to this thread so we get notification.

THANKS for all your hard work!
JOhn ><>

**hqarrse2** · 17 Jul 2008, 07:40 AM

Also still interested Mr Meech, but I needed a quick solution so have made a simple script that gives me a very basic ZC / PHPList 'integration'. I hope I won't use this long and it will just be a temporary measure on the way to using your full mod.

It may be too basic for the needs of many, and I'm not fully convinced it keeps enough PHPList features to be worthwhile! If those in a rush would like to help test / polish / further develop, I've posted everything here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...996#post584996

Bear in mind that I'm new to PHPList so I'm hoping some experienced eyes might notice any gaping holes - users must also be in the X table or this happens for example!