How to make "Subscribe to Our Newsletter" checked by default?

I am working on our account signup page. In the admin section, I have set "Show Newsletter Checkbox" to "2= Display Checked." However I don't see it checked on my account signup page. Any ideas? :smile:

Thank you!!!

Works on my stock test site. If I edit tpl_modules_create_account.php to remove the email type options (as has been done on your site), it still works, so you might try replacing that file temporarily with a stock copy to see if it's been edited improperly.

Just a personal thing, but I wouldn't sign up for your newsletter if I can't select plain text.

In the UK, and possibly the EU in general, this is illegal as it contravenes the provisions of the Data Privacy Act.

Furthermore, auto-signup increases the likelihood that people will press the "Mark as Spam" button on your communications, since after all, they don't remember asking for it.

If you get enough of these, then eventually all your email communication will be marked as spam.

I did make that edit to remove the plain text/HTML option AFTER I noticed that the check box was not working correctly. So I'm pretty sure that didn't mess anything up. We use a mailing list provider that allows us to send both plain text and HTML, so this choice was redundant.

I understand that this may not be legal in the UK, but I live in the US where this is the most common practice, so I am just trying to stay competitive in my market. :)

If anyone has any ideas PLEASE let me know. :)

SWGUY makes the most important point...

Your action will "oblige" people to receive your newsletter - even if they don't want to.

So... what a LOT of people will do is simply mark the incoming email as spam or junk.

As Scott says... get enough of these, and your outgoing email address will be flagged as that of a potential spammer. Blocking engines will then blacklist you, and you will find that your host server could also be blacklisted - affecting everyone who shares that IP.

So... far from being competitive, you risk causing huge problems, not only for yourself, but others too.

Far more efective would be to incentivize sign-up to the newsletter. Offer subscribers a discount coupon on their first purchase (easy to configure in ZC).

To "force" a behaviour onto potential customers is not the best way to go.

Thank you guys for your opinions and feedback. I appreciate where you are coming from, but does anyone know how to fix this bug? :)

Have you tried putting the stock version of the file back to see if that fixes the problem

on another note, when i look at the source of that page, you seem to have CSS and javascript outside of the <html> tags (can someone confirm that)

nigelt74:

Have you tried putting the stock version of the file back to see if that fixes the problem

on another note, when i look at the source of that page, you seem to have CSS and javascript outside of the <html> tags (can someone confirm that)

Yes...

A lot of stuff wrong here. Too much hard-coded stuff, breaking too many WC3 rules, as well as ZC protocols.

Run the page through http://validator.w3.org to see how much of a dogs breakfast it is...

Thanks for the suggestion--I did remove the rouge Javascript and CSS that was outside of the <head> tags.

And I found the solution to my problem!

The fix is here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56418

The other issues I saw at http://validator.w3.org/ were things such as my <br> tags not being formatted with "OMITTAG NO" like <br /> I am assuming. I don't think this is something I should really be concerned about?