Newsletter Subscribe Module - Install Problems

[Inxie]

I have downloaded and followed the install instructions exactly and double checked everything.
I am using the barebones template so I renamed every YOUR_TEMPLATE folder to barebones before copying.

For some reason, at step 7, I go to customers and there is no 'Subscription Manager'???

1. Download the package and unzip to a temp directory.

2. Copy the "admin" folder to your zencart root folder. This will
overwrite admin/index.php and admin/customers.php, and add new
files. (The index.php is only changed to display the count of
"Newsletter Subscribers" as both customer subscribers and
newsletter-only subscribers on the Admin Home page.)

3. Copy the "email" folder to your zencart root folder. This will
add the email template used by the subscription.

4. Prior to copying the "includes" folder, open includes/templates
and rename the "YOUR_TEMPLATE" subdirectory to the name of the
template you are using.

5. Copy the entire "includes" folder to your zencart root folder. The
files are already arranged with appropriate subdirectory structure.
As stated above, certain files WILL be overwritten.

6. Change the permissions setting for the following to 777:
includes/languages/english/html_includes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/define_subscribe.php
includes/languages/english/html_includes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/define_unsubscribe.php
(Note! for security, after you have these configured the way you like,
set permissions to 644.

7. Log into your admin panel and in the Customers tab you should see
the option 'Subscription Manager'. Click on this.

8. You should get a warning at the top that the contribution has not
been installed, and below you'll see an 'install' button. Click on
this to install the tables and update sql queries.

If you have installed version 2.2 you should see a 'update' button
instead of an 'install' button. BACKUP your subscriptions table!
Then press the 'update' button.

That should be it! The installation should transfer existing customer
subscribers over, so you will see them immediately.

[stevesh]

I haven't tried that mod, but it has an admin component, so it may not work with Zencart version 1.5.0, if that's what you're using.

[Inxie]

I am using 1.50

Why wouldn't it work with that version? Is admin set up differently in 1.50?

[stevesh]

I'm not coder enough to understand it, but it seems to have something to do with the way mods that have admin components are 'registered' in Zencart. That process is different somehow in 1.5.0.

[delia]

If you will note in the plugins section, this mod has not been upgraded to 1.5 and it has to be changed to work.

[simon1066]

When I installed this (on 1.50) the 'Subscription Manager' link was under 'Configuration' not 'Customers' so look there - although I might have changed the code I can't remember.

Alternatively try navigating directly to

http://MYDOMAIN.COM/MYADMIN/subscription_manager.php

and see if that gets you in.

[delia]

When I looked at that module, I saw evidence that it is not PCI-compliant and should not be used as is in 1.5.

[simon1066]

When I looked at that module, I saw evidence that it is not PCI-compliant and should not be used as is in 1.5.

Yes, that's a good point. I'm actually not using this mod, use Aweber instead - it's a hell of a job to remove so it's on my list of to do's