MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

[swguy]

Nothing has changed since I said, "in a month or so" on Sept. 26.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...8&postcount=16

I believe my forecast is still accurate.

[Tagyourbaby]

Cool look forward to it :)

[bjornarl]

FYI-
Midway through testing this sidebox, some change I made in my MailChimp configuration made it so suddenly when I entered my email address in the sidebox and posted it, it went to Mailchimp's 'please check for your email and confirm' message page, rather than the page to let me input additional information (name, interests, etc).

Eventually I determined that the solution to allow email to be entered in the sidebox but other fields to be entered on the full form hosted by mailchimp was to change the tpl_mailchimp_sidebox.php file line, from

$content .= '<form action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post">';

to

$content .= '<form action="http://MAILCHIMPUSERNAME.list-manage.com/subscribe" method="post">';

It seems to work -- though I don't know if it is subject to breaking in the future.

Thanks for a great contrib!

[mailchimp_api]

@bjornarl - removing the "/post" from the end of the standard URL in the plugin is all that is required to accomplish what you want.

There is no difference between using our plain "list-manage.com" host versus the customized "MAILCHIMPUSERNAME.list-manage.com" URL. The "MAILCHIMPUSERNAME" part may change from lists to list, but even that part *should not* actually matter. I haven't done thorough testing on that, so to be safe, I'd just drop it.

I have a feeling that anything you believed reverted to default forms was likely due to either using a different list id or changing something on your account. If you can produce steps to reproduce the error, feel free to contact us via api -at- mailchimp _dot_ com so we can look into it further with you.

[Dy3baliw]

Zen Cart 1.3.8

Hi. I need to change the width of the sign up box (where
customers type in their e-mail addresses), because it is
overlapping the whole layout.

Anyone know how to do this?

My website: www.thesimplestdesign.com

[swguy]

I'd suggest going to admin/configuration/layout settings and making the sidebox column wide enough to accomodate the signup box.

[charmedbytina2]

There was mention in another thread about using this sidebox for Constant Contact - comment was to make the necessary changes.

Soooo I would like to adapt MailChimp sidebox to work with Constant Contact, and then supress the sidebox until login / registration.

I saw DrByte's codes to hide a sidebox which would work ~ if Constant Contact was a "sidebox".

Any help is appreciated.

Tina

[charmedbytina2]

I managed to get the Mystery Sidebox working for ConstantContact.

Tina

[stlnyc]

Like many, I am getting this error:

http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post

I'm pretty sure I have everything setup.

[swguy]

It is possible that you have the values BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_U and BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_ID in mailchimp_sidebox_defines.php backwards. The value BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_U should be the longer of the two.