Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

[bhfruitcakeco]

Like other searches, the tool kit searches line by line so it wouldn't catch the wrapping. If you ever run into that again, you can try searching by part of the string that's significant-e.g. $column_width - 30 . You'll get more false positives, but may have more luck finding it.

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind.

btw, does this mean we're on the fruitcake list? :) :)

-Ng_

Only if you want to be. :)

[lamz]

hi

i was wondering:

when i put the form on my site i can do it eighter in a sitebox ore in the header. is it possible to put it in the center of my mainpage?

[dgwyn]

Maybe I can just get this fixed one file at a time. :) :)


@dgwyn:

I've attached a patch that updates create_account.php module and admin/customers.php for 1.3.5 it adds the subscribed date for customers.

What it does is set the subscribed date to the current time-so if a customer subscribes, then unsubscribes, then subscribes again, the date will be that 2nd subscription date.

[snip]
I'll also get this on my site.

What a day I've had with subscribers! I was testing out the patch that had been applied, and writing to my hosting support that it still wasn't working. I hit refresh on the suibscribers screen, and the update button disappeared and so did all my non-customer subscribers! Fortunately I had a recent enough backup to restore their names.

However, even with the patch, I still get a null date when a customer subscribes to the newsletter. Any ideas?

[dgwyn]

I could be wrong, but watching the flow on my site today, I think the page called when a customer updates their newsletter status is account_newsletter, and the logic needs to be in the file header_php.php. Again, I've been wrong many, many times before, but I think that may be the source of the data error.

[NotGoddess]

when i put the form on my site i can do it eighter in a sitebox ore in the header. is it possible to put it in the center of my mainpage?

If you look at the readme or sample header file, you'll see the snippet you need. You should be able to place this anywhere you can put php code.

If you want to put the sidebox setup inside the page, it's a tad bit more work (because you want to avoid duplicate id's) but I can get you the snippet if you need it.

-Ng_

[NotGoddess]

I could be wrong, but watching the flow on my site today, I think the page called when a customer updates their newsletter status is account_newsletter, and the logic needs to be in the file header_php.php. Again, I've been wrong many, many times before, but I think that may be the source of the data error.

I've got two things dead-lining tonight, but if I can I'll look into this again this evening and make sure the right calls are being made. I think you may be correct in that I don't think I updated that file, but I can't check it here

-Ng_

[mathias]

Hi Ng,

Sorry to post again, but I was doing some other testing and when I signed up for an account with a duplicate email address i got this ugly sql error:

1062 Duplicate entry '[email protected]' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO subscribers (customers_id, email_address, email_format, confirmed) VALUES ('9', '[email protected]', 'HTML', '1')]

If I refresh, it goes back to my cart with the proper error displayed. I can try to submit again, and an alert pops up stating my 'state' needs to have more than 2 characters.

Is this something I should run from my ZC admin?

Thanks again,

Colin

Hi,

I've installed the last version of the contribution, and the bug is still present.

Is it planned to fix it ?

Thanks,

Mathias

[NotGoddess]

Actually I've decided to label it a 'feature' - free sql error with every mod!
:) :) :) :).

Yes, I plan to fix it. I've put aside an hour each night this week to just work on this contrib. Normally it wouldn't take that much to update, but I'm also adding the unsubscribe feature/sidebox/page module and had to rewrite part of that (and still have it back compatible).

You know how about I do this. I'll backtrack the tree and just update the current release so it's fully compat-fixing the known bugs and get that out tonight.

Then I'll re-integrate the new features into another release.

-Ng_

[riiver_of_dreams]

I just installed the newsletter only mod and everything is fine in the admin, but when I try to go to the storefront, all I get is this error:


Warning: main(includes/templates/sns/common/tpl_header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cook/public_html/shop/includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php on line 70

Warning: main(includes/templates/sns/common/tpl_header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cook/public_html/shop/includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php on line 70

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/templates/sns/common/tpl_header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/cook/public_html/shop/includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php on line 70

I am new to zencart (although I had this mod working fine in the past, before yahoo ate my catalog--have since moved to another host who is zencart certified---) and new to php, plus totally clueless about sql.

Any help would be appreciated.

[riiver_of_dreams]

Please pardon my ignorance---fixed the problem. I uploaded the tpl_header.php.example file without realizing what it was.