MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

[swguy]

If you're looking for a way to improve the quality of your newsletter, take a look at MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com). They offer html templates, double opt-in, archive management, multiple lists and loads more features for a very affordable price. They only charge per email (not a monthly fee like Constant Contact), so it's quite affordable for the small merchant who only sends newsletters once in a while.

Code to integrate the "subscribe" form for MailChimp as a sidebox is provided here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=425

Even if you're not yet ready to start a newsletter, it's worth visiting their site to check out some of the resources and guides they offer to anyone considering email marketing.

Good luck,
That Software Guy

[swguy]

If you are using this contribution, you may also wish to use the Newsletter Discount contribution, which has an option to determine whether the customer is a MailChimp newsletter subscriber. See the support thread at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...664#post534664

Scott

[esugrue]

Hi!

I am installing the MailChimp contribution and it says in the instructions:

Your signup URL will look like this:
http://list-manage.com/subscribe.phtml?id=1234567890

Mine looks like:

http://list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a...&id=a97ddaa914

So can I just paste that into includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/mailchimp_sidebox_defines.php as is or will it break the form?

I did try but got: An error occured; please try later.

So I thought I'd ask just in case!

Thanks
Ernie

[swguy]

You want both parms. I have updated my documentation on the web and will update the README file next time I release the contribution.

[esugrue]

Hi!

OK, thanks - I am still getting the error message though.

In your example it says my sign up link should look like:

http://list-manage.com/subscribe.phtml?.....

but mine doesn't it begins:

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

(but the form in the sidebox naturally references /subscribe.phtml)

Do I need to change something in tpl_mailchimp_sidebox.php as well?

Thanks
Ernie

[swguy]

I have updated the doc.

You are right, the form should reference subscribe not subscribe.phtml. This is the new API.

But you shouldn't be getting errors; I'm still using the old style signup on my site. You should talk to MailChimp if you're getting errors.

[Ooba_Scott]

Hi, the support thread for this module seems to be kinda dead .... so appologies for starting a new thread.

I have downloaded the mailchimp integration module and installed it fine.

It works with passing the email address through the sidebox and the sign up form ...... but im also wanting to pass the first and last name to mailchimp aswel.

The documentation doesnt really help when wanting to do this, it just says 'you will need to mod the files'

...... i have tried changing the files but havnt had any luck in getting it to work.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

In hope and many Thanks
Scott

[swguy]

Support for this module is not dead; I just can't take the time to show you how to write code on the forum. It's time consuming enough just to support basic use of mods.

[Ooba_Scott]

I understand that its time consuming but im not the only person who has been stumped by this.

Just a little indication of which files need to be changed would have sufficed

[ledeshop]

define('BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_ID','20xxxx715016');
define('BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_U','xxxxx');
define('BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_URL','http://YourSite.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe/post');
define('BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_API_KEY','289xxxxxxx4fdc337e43f523af1578-us5');


where get the U?
http://YourSite.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe/post' the yoursite write what?

Any one help me THanks