Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

[ekles]

Good to hear and thank you for all you have done for everyone.

Now that I've sweet talked you I have a question

As iIuse another program to actually send the emails is there away to do bulk deletes other than through sql statements. Reason is that on 3 consequtive newsletter bounces we delete the email address from our system which we would like to do from this system as well. We can export the dletes as a record to a line text file or a delimited file.

Any thoughts?

[CJPinder]

Hello everybody,

There are two new versions of the Newsletter Subscribe mod available for download in the contribs section...
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=106

v2.0.9a - Bug fix release. Use this version if you are using Zen Cart v1.3.7
v2.1.0 - Compatibility release. This is the version you need to use with Zen Cart v1.3.8.

The features and functionality of the two versions is identical. The only difference is that v2.09a contains modified versions of the ZC 1.3.7 core files and v2.10 contains modified versions of the ZC 1.3.8 core files.

Don't mix the two up, you'll cause weird problems with your Zen Cart installation if you do.

Regards,
Christian.

[CJPinder]

As I use another program to actually send the emails is there away to do bulk deletes other than through sql statements. Reason is that on 3 consecutive newsletter bounces we delete the email address from our system which we would like to do from this system as well. We can export the deletes as a record to a line text file or a delimited file.

There is nothing currently in the mod that will allow you to do batch deletes in that way. It is something that would need to be custom coded.

Regards,
Christian.

[JJ_Boja]

Hello everybody,

There are two new versions of the Newsletter Subscribe mod available for download in the contribs section...
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=106

v2.0.9a - Bug fix release. Use this version if you are using Zen Cart v1.3.7
v2.1.0 - Compatibility release. This is the version you need to use with Zen Cart v1.3.8.

The features and functionality of the two versions is identical. The only difference is that v2.09a contains modified versions of the ZC 1.3.7 core files and v2.10 contains modified versions of the ZC 1.3.8 core files.

Don't mix the two up, you'll cause weird problems with your Zen Cart installation if you do.

Regards,
Christian.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Drewster]

Greetings All!

New to Zen Cart, and to the Forum. I just installed v1.3.7 (the version that was on my current server; haven't made the jump yet to v1.3.8). Anyway, I also just completed installation of Newsletter Subscribe v2.0.9a. Installation went without a hitch, and all works well. I do have a couple of questions that I can't seem to find answers to:

1) Which files to I edit to change the text on the confirmation screen that appears after subscribing?
2) I thought this was a double opt-in system. I received an email after I subscribed myself, but there was no copy in it; just the following text:

EMAIL_WELCOME
EMAIL_TEXT
EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_TEXT
EMAIL_CONTACT
EMAIL_CLOSURE

Isn't there supposed to be a link in that email that a subscriber has to click on to confirm their email address? And in my Admin, it shows where I subscribed, but it also states that confirmation has not been received, and no newsletters will be sent to my address. If customers have no way to confirm they want to be added to my mailing list, doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of this mod?

Am I missing something here? Did I do something wrong? Or am I just not seeing something that is blatantly in front of me? Any and all help will be appreciated!

Regards,
Bug-Eyed Drewster

P.S. If this has been addressed before, please forgive me - but there are 63 pages to this friggin' thread, and I'm too old, too tired, and too blind to read that much right now.

[CJPinder]

Hi Drewster,

Sorry it has taken me a few days to reply. Been very busy.

1) Which files to I edit to change the text on the confirmation screen that appears after subscribing?

Change the line that says...

define('TEXT_INFORMATION_CONFIRM', 'Thank you for confirming your email address.'); 

In the includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/subscribe_confirm.php file. Where YOUR_TEMPLATE should be the name of the template you use.

2) I thought this was a double opt-in system. I received an email after I subscribed myself, but there was no copy in it; just the following text:

EMAIL_WELCOME
EMAIL_TEXT
EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_TEXT
EMAIL_CONTACT
EMAIL_CLOSURE

It is a double opt-in system and the email you received should have had some text and a link in it. The fact that you are seeing the EMAIL_WELCOME text rather than a proper message indicates that one or more files have not been uploaded or not uploaded to the right place.

Check that you have renamed all the folders called YOUR_TEMPLATE to the name of the template your are using. Then check that all the files in the includes/languages/english folder and sub-folders have been uploaded correctly.

Regards,
Christian.

[Drewster]

Hi Drewster,

Sorry it has taken me a few days to reply. Been very busy.


Change the line that says...

define('TEXT_INFORMATION_CONFIRM', 'Thank you for confirming your email address.'); 

In the includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/subscribe_confirm.php file. Where YOUR_TEMPLATE should be the name of the template you use.


It is a double opt-in system and the email you received should have had some text and a link in it. The fact that you are seeing the EMAIL_WELCOME text rather than a proper message indicates that one or more files have not been uploaded or not uploaded to the right place.

Check that you have renamed all the folders called YOUR_TEMPLATE to the name of the template your are using. Then check that all the files in the includes/languages/english folder and sub-folders have been uploaded correctly.

Regards,
Christian.

Thanks! Actually I figured out what was wrong the very afternoon I contacted you. I had failed to upload an entire file folder! Is that dumb or what!?!?

Anyway, all works fine and I'm customizing things as we speak.

Your response is very much appreciated!

[dharma]

Thank you for the updated NLS!

[NilesRocks]

First of all... THANK YOU FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION! YOU ROCK!

Now, after installing I seem to have one quite small problem. When I go in to send an individual email to a subscriber (via Customers | Subscription Manager and then click the "email" button for a subscriber) I get this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in /home/MYUSERDIR/public_html/admin/mail.php on line 380

Is this related to this contrib or is something else afoot?

THANKS!

[CJPinder]

Hi,

Now, after installing I seem to have one quite small problem. When I go in to send an individual email to a subscriber (via Customers | Subscription Manager and then click the "email" button for a subscriber) I get this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in /home/MYUSERDIR/public_html/admin/mail.php on line 380

Which version of Zen Cart are you using and which version of the Contrib?

Thanks,
Christian.