MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

[joyjoy]

Hi, thanks for the great mod. I'm having the same trouble in the create account process. The account is created there is no confirmation email from mailchimp as expected. I would appreciate any advice. Thank you!

I reinstalled, it's okay now. But I have another questions. Is there a way to have the confirmation screen display as a popup window? Thank you.

[crexis]

Let me preface by saying I'm a newbie.

I'm trying to install mailchimp and am following the readme and the instructions aren't completely clear.

In the readme it states:

At the bottom of the form will be something like this:

<td align="left"><INPUT TYPE='submit' NAME='submit' VALUE='Subscribe'>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="5331068383">
<input type="hidden" name="u" value="0dcb1c9808"></td>

Note the the values of "u" and "id" - you will be
embedding them in the language file during the installation process


In the html, the only thing I found with 'input type', which was near the top was this:

</label>
<input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL">
</div>
<div id="mce-responses" class="clear">
<div class="response" id="mce-error-response" style="display:none"></div>
<div class="response" id="mce-success-response" style="display:none"></div>
</div> <div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button"></div>
</form>


The parts "u" and "id" I need to take a note of, there is no "u" and the id ="mce-success-response"

Then it states:

2. Edit the file
includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/mailchimp_sidebox_defines.php
set the BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_ID to the "id" value you noted
in step 3 of the pre-installation instructions.
set the BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_U to the "u" value you noted
in step 3 of the pre-installation instructions.

Is that the right "id" value and what is the "u" value?

Any help greatly appreciated!

[jeking]

You'll find the id and u values in your Mail Chimp sign-up form. You won't actually use the sign-up form, at least not for this plugin, but that is where you'll find your id and u values.

[crexis]

That was the html I posted from the signup form off their site. Didn't have any "u" values.

[jeking]

The html you posted is not a complete sign up form. You can use the General Forms option, skip right the the Share It tab click the 'Want to embed a form on a web page?' and in the 'Copy/paste onto your site' box will be lots of html code.

The u and id values will be in a url string about ten lines down starting with <form action=

[crexis]

Thanks jeking, it was under 'embedded form code' the 'copy/paste' onto your site section.

I'm having issues with these instructions:

Set BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_URL to the URL value you noted in
step 3 of the pre-installation instructions

I didn't provide any url, so do I just put the site url or the url I see in the form 'code'?

thanks !

[crexis]

www.sunnysihota.com/zen

I got the newsletter setup on my site! good times

However I'd like some help with some editing.

How do I get rid of the 'newsletter' title so the email suscribe and form is only showing.

I want to get rid of the 'html or text only' options, anyone know how to do that?

2 questions, hopefully someone can help, thanks in advance!

[jeking]

Thanks jeking, it was under 'embedded form code' the 'copy/paste' onto your site section.

I'm having issues with these instructions:

Set BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_URL to the URL value you noted in
step 3 of the pre-installation instructions

I didn't provide any url, so do I just put the site url or the url I see in the form 'code'?

thanks !

It's the mailchimp url from the form code.

[crexis]

Ok I added this for the newsletter_url: http://sunnysihota.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?

www.sunnysihota.com/zen

Do you know which file I would go into to remove the title "newsletter" above the form, and also changed the words to suscribe to the form/newsletter.

I want to get rid of the 'html or text' option and just auto-make it 'html', where can I change this in? I couldn't find it in the admin.

thanks for the help

[adamtlhern]

Hi All,

Is it possible yet to integrate this add-on to the customer signup process ?

Thanks