MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

[tnjon]

Are they away to put a link in the footer to go to the sign up page of mail chimp newsletter?

[hfxracing]

You could or they could sign up again with the side box but People don't always do what we would like them to do, so like other things you have anticipate what people might do. & they could click the check box to sign up again.

[swguy]

Are they away to put a link in the footer to go to the sign up page of mail chimp newsletter?

Certainly you could do this. Mailchimp gives you a hosted signup page which you can find by logging into your account and poking around. Then add this link to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php file, or make an ez page link out of it, etc.

[tnjon]

Certainly you could do this. Mailchimp gives you a hosted signup page which you can find by logging into your account and poking around. Then add this link to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php file, or make an ez page link out of it, etc.

Thanks worked like a charm.

[swguy]

Great! Some folks who don't use sideboxes do what you have done.

[retched]

I modified my installation to allow for signing up through admin (similar to show here) and through the My Account Control panel.

My question is, is there a way to check if the customer is subscribed to the given list so that the box is pre-selected already? I know it gets messy if the customer changes email addresses (I'll start writing a way to unsubscribe the old email address and subscribe the new email address) but getting the log messages about the email is already subscribed is kind of annoying. I know that MailChimp's API has a function to return the list of emails currently subscribed but not sure how to decode it so PHP can add it to an array of sorts.

Also as MailChimp upgraded API versions, will there be a need to change this script to match, or should it be fine as is?

[swguy]

MailChimp updates their API ever so often, and most of the changes have been backwards compatible.