Mailbeez After Sales Modules

[lukelloyd]

hi luke,

think you just helped me to find a bug ;-)

please go to mailhive/common/classes/mailbeez.php and replace the function dbdate (around line 80) with this one:

    function dbdate($day) {
      $rawtime = strtotime( -1 * (int)$day . " days");
      $ndate = date("Ymd", $rawtime);
      return $ndate;
    } 

now -1 should work for you!?

will put this into the next release

regards
cord

Hiya Cord

Thanks very much for that, it works a treat now.

Glad to be of help ;)

Regards, Luke

[TonyBunney]

hi tony,
good to hear you like mailbeez and see the potential for anyones online shop ;-)

Throttling is on the roadmap, but I would like to develop a stable solution rather than a quickfix. Hope to have a solution within a couple of weeks.

until then: most modules will only generate a small number of emails if run daily, e.g. the review reminder will send as many emails as you had orders in the configured number of days before.

In simulation mode you can try out things in a "what-if" way to get a feeling for it. The current version does not support tracking in simulation mode, so don't get confused by that (will come with verison 2.0)

cheers
cord

Absolutely agree with you about a stable solution as opposed to a quick fix.
One of the reasons I am eager to get the throttling in, is because my client currently uses phplist to send out newsletters to over 20,000 which is obviously throttled and if I then send out even minimal Mailbeez emails, there is a chance that I will exceed my email limit on my server.
A point to consider here is to hold mailing information, i.e. the number of emails sent on a database table, so that it is accessibly by other mailing software. I am sure that phplist using database information to control its throttling but I will need to check that.
If details of how many emails have been sent from the website are held in a common area, then all mailing systems could use it.

Tony

[TonyBunney]

thanks a lot,
have more a trial and error approach when dealing with html
will put your changes it the next version. Maybe you can review the whole system for me (wait until version 2.0)

cheers
cord

I will be more than happy to review version 2.0 when it comes out.

[TonyBunney]

Continuing om with my pet hate, I have been looking at some of the template files shop/mailhive/mailbeez/template name/email/body_html.tpl and a lot of these are not XHTML 1.0 transitional compliant, so I may have my work cut out if I am going to review version 2 for you.
The main culprites that I am seeing is the use of <br> instead of <br /> and <img tags not ending with />.

[uneek]

Im putting in the Review module but just wondered if someone could explain in proper english the meaning of Set Days Passed and how Set Days to Skip After affects it. Obviously Set Days Passed is equal to how long ago the order was. But I don't understand Set Days to Skip at all?? Perhaps someone could explain by way of using an example?

The cron job will be running on a daily basis.

thanks!

[Kenichi]

Im putting in the Review module but just wondered if someone could explain in proper english the meaning of Set Days Passed and how Set Days to Skip After affects it. Obviously Set Days Passed is equal to how long ago the order was. But I don't understand Set Days to Skip at all?? Perhaps someone could explain by way of using an example?

The cron job will be running on a daily basis.

thanks!

I'm just installing this for reviews and I believe "days to skip" means the time frame you want included from your first set of emails being sent out. From what I understand this module will only send an email once per person (for each type of email).

So for example, if you wanted the first email set to go out to all the people from the past 2 years, you would put around 700 days.

If you wanted the first email to only go out to people within the past month, you would put 30 days.

[rjspomer]

OK That maybe where I need to go "email_template_default.html I have not reworked that template.I will let you know thanks.

rebuilding the default template worked.

I hope that v2.0 of zen cart takes on this issue. I like a lot of people receive hundreds of html emails a month and i can not recall one that was not formatted correctly for outlook 2007.

One other question when I send a test email in production mode and it sends a cc to my on file store email should I get a html version? It works in the birthday "send test' but not in the review.

I would like to see what I am actually sending out.

Thanks again!

[kcb410]

Sorry! I was pretty vague in my explanation.

When I was in the Mailbeez Facebook mod, I was clicking on "Send Test Mail", putting in the test email address, submitting the request and instead of being sent to a viable page within my admin, I was getting a 404 page. At the end of the web address of the 404 page, a "zenid=564321326546531321" was being added.

I (finally) figured out that the number after the zen id was a session token which led me to turn off the "Recreate Session ID" in my admin>config>sessions.

I hope that it is easier to understand.

Hello All,

I'm getting the exact same 404 error when sending the test mail as shown above. I don't believe it's my htaccess file causing this issue.

Has anyone else had this problem and resolved it?
If so...what was causing it?
Any help is appreciated.


Mailbeez 1.7
Zen 1.3.9h
PHP 5.2.15

Thank you!

[kcb410]

Hello All,

I'm getting the exact same 404 error when sending the test mail as shown above. I don't believe it's my htaccess file causing this issue.

Has anyone else had this problem and resolved it?
If so...what was causing it?
Any help is appreciated.


Mailbeez 1.7
Zen 1.3.9h
PHP 5.2.15

Thank you!

Just an update to the above post...I'm getting the following error on my server:

[Fri Jan 21 12:46:15 2011] [error] [client 111.222.333.444] File does not exist: public_html/mailhive.php&zenid=0c3e6a1ac2dcb90577aeca92ae5190fa, referer: http://kcbgraphics.com/?????/mailbee...odule=birthday

[ksoup]

Great Mod ... No errors but one concern... the zenid shows in the actual emails links that went out to the customers on the following mods...

how can we avoid that zenid?!

ZC 1.3.9h
Mailbeez 1.7
Reviews 1.5
Winback 1.5
Share Reviews to Facebook 1.5
Customers without Purchase 1.5