Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

[nagelkruid]

Do you have a link to download the 2.1.1 version? It is still listing 2.1.0 as the latest version on the Newsletter Subscribe entry on the download page.

Sure: http://www.xs4all.nl/~vee/
Please let me know if it works for you.

Cheers,
Jeroen

[ryanb4614]

1.3.8 any problem with this and the Easy singup and login mod? I noticed this: \includes\modules\yourtemplate\create_account.php

[Chuckwa]

Sure: http://www.xs4all.nl/~vee/
Please let me know if it works for you.

Cheers,
Jeroen

Got it installed this weekend. Seems to be working fine. Sent out a set of newsletters and have had people successfully subscribe!

[ryanb4614]

Having some issues with this mod, If a user makes an account, the copy of the welcome letter gets sent to my admin emai, normal... But the Welcome email won't send to the customer?
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[nagelkruid]

Having some issues with this mod, If a user makes an account, the copy of the welcome letter gets sent to my admin emai, normal... But the Welcome email won't send to the customer?
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I can't reproduce this error in my shop.
You may have altered the file in another way.
When you subscribe to the newsletter as a non-customer, do you get the e-mail with the confirmation link?

If you don't get this confirmation e-mail i think you should relook at your e-mail configuration settings.

Jeroen

[ryanb4614]

I have the easy signup and login mod?? I do get the confirmation email when they signup just for the news letter, but when creating a new account I get the [create account] email to my admin email but customer does not get the welcome letter....

[nagelkruid]

I have the easy signup and login mod?? I do get the confirmation email when they signup just for the news letter, but when creating a new account I get the [create account] email to my admin email but customer does not get the welcome letter....

I don't know that mod, what i do know is that this mod doesn't do much in the create account section other than checking if an e-mail allready was subscribed for the newsletter.
It does not change anything in the e-mail functionality.

here is the code that gets added to the includes/modules/your_template/create_account.php Maybe you can try and add that manually to your previously used php file

// BEGIN newsletter_subscribe mod 1/1
// If a newsletter only account exists we update the info,
// but keep the subscription active, and give them a message that to
// change they should do so on their account page (after creation).
    if(defined('NEWSONLY_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED') && (NEWSONLY_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED=='true')) {
      $check_subscribers_query = "select count(*) as total from " . TABLE_SUBSCRIBERS . "
                                  where email_address = '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "' ";
      $check_subscribers = $db->Execute($check_subscribers_query);
      if ($check_subscribers->fields['total'] > 0) {
        $sql = "UPDATE " . TABLE_SUBSCRIBERS . " SET
                customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "',
                email_format = '" . zen_db_input($email_format) . "',
                confirmed = '1' 
                WHERE email_address = '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "' ";
        $db->Execute($sql);
        $messageStack->add('create_account', SUBSCRIBE_MERGED_NEWSONLY_ACCT);
      } else {
        if (!empty($newsletter)) {
          $sql = "INSERT INTO " . TABLE_SUBSCRIBERS . " 
                  (customers_id, email_address, email_format, confirmed, subscribed_date)
                  VALUES ('" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "', '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "', '" . zen_db_input($email_format) . "', '1', now())";
          $db->Execute($sql);
        }
      }
    }
// END newsletter_subscribe mod 1/1

    // phpBB create account 

[nikki72]

Thanks! I think that's what I'll do :o) I really love my template. I also just remembered that the defined pages from the newsletter subscription mod are not showing up in the admin Define Pages Editor. I've uploaded the mod twice, so I don't think I missed anything. How do I get those to show up there? Thanks! Amy

PS For anyone who's using the Apple Zen template, the above line of code should have a second break in it to put the subscribe button down to the next line:

$content .= ' <br /><br />' . zen_image_submit (BUTTON_IMAGE_SUBSCRIBE,HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_BUTTON, 'value="' . HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_BUTTON . '" ');

Otherwise it just sits next to the text-only line :)

I have had to play around a bit to get the box to look the same across browsers. I finally got close with this:

/**
 * Side Box Template
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: tpl_subscribe.php,v 1.1 2006/06/16 01:46:16 Owner Exp $
 */
   
   $content = '';
   $content .= zen_draw_form('subscribe', zen_href_link(FILENAME_SUBSCRIBE, '', 'SSL'), 'post', '');
   $content .= zen_draw_hidden_field('act', 'subscribe');
   $content .= zen_draw_hidden_field('main_page',FILENAME_SUBSCRIBE);
   $content .= (empty($subscribe_text) ? '' : $subscribe_text);
   $content .= '  ' . zen_draw_input_field('email', '', 'size="18" maxlength="90" style="width: ' .
               ($column_width-20) . 'px" value="' . HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_DEFAULT_TEXT .
               '" onfocus="if (this.value == \'' . HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_DEFAULT_TEXT . '\') this.value = \'\';"');
    if(EMAIL_USE_HTML == 'true') {
    $content .= ' <br /> ' . zen_draw_radio_field('email_format', 'HTML', true, 'id="emailhtmlformat"');
    $content .= ' <label for="emailhtmlformat" class="radioButtonLabel">'. ENTRY_EMAIL_HTML_DISPLAY . '</label><br />';
    $content .= zen_draw_radio_field('email_format', 'TEXT', false, 'id="emailtextformat"');
    $content .= ' <label for="emailtextformat" class="radioButtonLabel">'. ENTRY_EMAIL_TEXT_DISPLAY . '</label>';
   }  


  $content .= ' <br /><br />' . zen_image_submit (BUTTON_IMAGE_SUBSCRIBE,HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_BUTTON, 'value="' . HEADER_SUBSCRIBE_BUTTON . '" ');
  $content .= '</form>';
?>

this is my sidebox/tpl_subscribe.php, I am using the apple zen template.
However, in IE the buttons are center align instead of left like in firefox and opera- Has anyone found a fix to that?
thx

[eminentonline]

Hi all

I've tried installing this mod twice now, but still to no avail. FileZilla comes back and says all file transfers were successful; I go in and modify the 2 files - define_newsletter_subscribe and define_newsletter_unsubscribe as instructed.

However, when I log on to my Admin, I click the Customers tab and can still only see the following:

Customers
Orders
Group Pricing
PayPal IPN

Any ideas what I may or may not be doing?
I renamed all of the 'YOUR_TEMPLATE' folders to the name of my template prior to uploading, so that shouldn't be a problem (I forgot that last time....)

Thanks in advance.

Nick.

[nagelkruid]

However, when I log on to my Admin, I click the Customers tab and can still only see the following:
Customers
Orders
Group Pricing
PayPal IPN

Please look in your admin folder, go to includes/boxes/extra_boxes
Do you have any file there that relates to subscription_manager_ ?