Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

NG,

problems with the iTunes update, huh... you're not the only one out there, i hear.

anything i can maybe help with?

Adam.

Apple Certified

pensive612:

NG,

problems with the iTunes update, huh... you're not the only one out there, i hear.

anything i can maybe help with?

Adam.

Apple Certified
I'd love some. I'll PM you in the morning (about 3hrs past my bedtim atm).

-Ng_

NG,
is this version buggy as hell?

Just wondering cause non of the tect or html radios are showing.

If it is abuggy version I will wait till next version if need be.

Also is your gallerycart compatible with zen?

Rob

knuckle-101:

I like to have this for
Newsletter:
Email box submit
Well, you can try adding a <br /> either in the header template file, or in the text definition (former if you don't want to have to edit it for every language, latter if you want some freedom to have/not have it).

For the template file, right after:

  $content .= '<label>'. (empty($subscribe_text) ? '' : $subscribe_text);

add

  $content .= ' <br /> ';

Or in the def file, just add it to the define: 'Newsletter: <br />'

Oh, one caveat tho...the current release also uses the header template on the subscribe page when an error occurs, so you'll have the line break there, as well.
If you need it one-line there, but 2 in header, let me know and I can show you what to do (basically copy the header template and use that for subscribe page).

knuckle-101:

I dont mean to pound on your forum just I spent 4 days trying to get it to work, but thats my fault for two reasons did not see the header control in admin and didnt study it hard enough :(

But I hope it all works well for you.
blink have you perused the forums much? You are nowhere near the level I'd consider 'pounding' :)

Re your wish for me-It'll all work out with help/time.
I've got this saying (probably stolen from somewhere, but if it is, I can't remember, so it's mine.) :
Life is a hilly road-lots of ups and downs. You gotta hope you're heading toward the mountains instead of the sea; but just in case-learn to swim.

-Ng_

knuckle-101:

is this version buggy as hell?

Just wondering cause non of the tect or html radios are showing.

If it is abuggy version I will wait till next version if need be.

Also is your gallerycart compatible with zen?
Buggy is debatable :0

but in the case of the radio buttons check to make sure you have html mail enabled in your admin->configuration->email settings.

If you do, the buttons show. If you don't, then it defaults to 'text' email format and they don't show (because you only send one type of mail so users don't need a choice).

GalleryCart is for Menalto's Gallery 1-it's not Zen Compatible. There is a ZenCart module for Gallery 2, but as far as I know no one has ever updated it to work with zc1.3 -it was originally made for 1.2.7

-Ng_

1.3.5 update-
knuckle-101 found an issue with the 1.3.5 create_account.php module not being compatible with the current version shipped with the contribution. I'll be releasing the update tomorrow after I doublecheck to make sure the other account related pages are okay.

In the meantime, you can use winmerge to compare the core version with the ns version in your override directory and just merge the marked changes for the newsletter subscribe mod (marked with // BEGIN and //END comments) into the new core version and save back to your override directory.

-Ng_

While you await an updated I have attached the current version file for 1.3.5.

Upload to includes/modules/YOUR TEMPLATE/ just override your current file, be sure to compare for contrubitions you have added previously in the last release or before.

rename YOUR TEMPLATE with your current template name.

Rob

I have installed the contribution on Zen Cart 1.3.0.2 but I can't get the sidebox to show in the layout boxes controller. It is everywhere else in the admin but the controller.

Any help is greatly appriciated!!

What version of the newsletter do you have installed?

offnetrob:

I have installed the contribution on Zen Cart 1.3.0.2 but I can't get the sidebox to show in the layout boxes controller. It is everywhere else in the admin but the controller.

Any help is greatly appriciated!!

If the sidebox is showing in the layout boxes controller, and you have that turned on for left/right/single, that should be it.

You can doublecheck that it's enabled (should enable by defalt). Under 'Configuration -> My Store' you will see the option to enable/disable subscriptions.

Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that the contribution is active everywhere except in the "layout boxes controller". I do not have the option to use that box anywhere.

The rest of the options for the contribution are fine. I can view the contribution in the "my configuration" and I can view the users it has already merged in.

I just want to figure out how I can add the box to the sideboxes in the store.

The version of the contribution I am using is 2.0.5.

Thanks again!!

offnetrob:

Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that the contribution is active everywhere except in the "layout boxes controller". I do not have the option to use that box anywhere.

That sounds like the files aren't in place.
Check the tempate that you use (I'll use 'foo' as the example) in:

/includes/modules/sideboxes/foo/subscribe.php
/includes/templates/foo/sideboxes/tpl_subscribe.php

These were in 'YOUR_TEMPLATE' folders that you needed to rename to 'foo' or the name of your template.

-Ng_

I'm probably doing something lame. I installed Newletter Subscribe v 2.0.5 in Zencart 1.3.0.2 and everything works except it doesn't show in the layout Boxes area. Any ideas?

brynn :-)

brynn:

I'm probably doing something lame. I installed Newletter Subscribe v 2.0.5 in Zencart 1.3.0.2 and everything works except it doesn't show in the layout Boxes area. Any ideas?

brynn :-)
See the post just above yours. Verify that the templates/modules are in the right folders.

Hi,

I just installed this mod and everything is great, however, I noticed none of my emails are reaching their destinations anymore. Yesterday, all was good and I was receiving emails in MSN, Yahoo and Telus test accounts, but since the install, I'm not getting anything.

Has anyone else experienced this or is this just a freakish coincidence on my end?

Cheers,

Colin

send a test email to an account you own.

disable subscriptions (in configuration see readme for where)

try again

if no luck:

replace the functions/email.php (not in place to look up name...but email functions)
with the backup you made.
ditto for audience.php

try again.

report back.

Hi NG,

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, I made the post late last night and wasn't near the computer all day.

I disabled the mod under 'my store' and uploaded the backups of audience.php and functions_email.php but I am still unable to receive email. The only account is seems to get passed is gmail and even then it's put into the 'junk' folder.

I'm going to email my isp and see if anything changed and hopefully it's not this mod.

Cheers,

Colin

Radish:

I disabled the mod under 'my store' and uploaded the backups of audience.php and functions_email.php but I am still unable to receive email. The only account is seems to get passed is gmail and even then it's put into the 'junk' folder.

Those two files are the only ones related to the actual email process...if the module was responsible, replacing those with the backups should have fixed.

But you said you are getting email at one account, that indicates that the server is sending mail.

Are you using shared hosting?
If the emails from your site were never previously parsed as 'junk' it sounds like your ip (shared with others) or that of your mail server has been blacklisted for sending spam (not that you did, but others using the same shared ip did). You might check your mail server's ip against a blacklist search, such as is done here:
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

If it has been blacklisted, your host has to be notified so they can try to rectify it.

Another thing to check is where the email is said to be coming from (your store email or [email protected]) - some places block the 'nobody' senders as well.

(You can google mail smtp blacklist, etc for a gazillion articles on other possiblities as well).

-Ng_

Ng,

Thanks for the reply. I ran my ip in the site you gave me and it appears on one of the lists. I've emailed my host to see if they can do anything to fix the problem. Once a site has been blacklisted, is it a real process to 'remove' the blacklisting?

Thanks again for your help and many thanks for your mod. I'm super poor right now, but I look forward to giving a donation soon enough.

Colin

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.

I found this code in a post a while back:

ALTER TABLE `subscribers` CHANGE `subscriber_id` `subscriber_id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT

Is this something I should run from my ZC admin?

Thanks again,

Colin