MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

swguy:

Certainly you could do this. Mailchimp gives you a hosted signup page which you can find by logging into your account and poking around. Then add this link to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php file, or make an ez page link out of it, etc.

Thanks worked like a charm.

Great! Some folks who don't use sideboxes do what you have done.

when i export emails from the database SELECT customers_email_address FROM customers WHERE customers_newsletter = 1
and trying import from the email file csv .

i get error
4585 emails had syntax errors. About syntax errors: http://eepurl.com/hcnb
See attached files for the subscribers that were not imported.

Thank you.

need help . when we try rxport the emails newsletter from zen cart shop . and after import to mailchimp i receive error

Error: There were no emails added to your Kingmagic Newsletter list
4585 emails had syntax errors. About syntax errors: http://eepurl.com/hcnb
See attached files for the subscribers that were not imported.

I modified my installation to allow for signing up through admin (similar to show here) and through the My Account Control panel.

My question is, is there a way to check if the customer is subscribed to the given list so that the box is pre-selected already? I know it gets messy if the customer changes email addresses (I'll start writing a way to unsubscribe the old email address and subscribe the new email address) but getting the log messages about the email is already subscribed is kind of annoying. I know that MailChimp's API has a function to return the list of emails currently subscribed but not sure how to decode it so PHP can add it to an array of sorts.

Also as MailChimp upgraded API versions, will there be a need to change this script to match, or should it be fine as is?

MailChimp updates their API ever so often, and most of the changes have been backwards compatible.

dmagic:

when i export emails from the database SELECT customers_email_address FROM customers WHERE customers_newsletter = 1
and trying import from the email file csv .

i get error
4585 emails had syntax errors. About syntax errors: http://eepurl.com/hcnb
See attached files for the subscribers that were not imported.

Thank you.

This doesn't have anything to do with the plug in. The only thing that I can think that would be a problem is that file you are using isn't properly formatted or has the correct fields.

I just read all 23 pages of this forum. Found a question I had that someone else asked that was never answered....

How can the HTML / TEXT-only radio buttons be removed from the newsletter sidebar (and make sure that HTML is kept as default)

Also, I saw the question as to how to start a new window upon clicking subscribe was answered but my file looks nothing like what was posted. So.... how can I fire up a new window upon someone clicking subscribe? Better yet, I have zen lightbox installed is there any way to fire it up in a lightbox?

Thank you.

Removing the HTML (format) radio buttons:
When you are creating your signup form on the MailChimp site, use the Super Slim form (under Embedded Forms).

swguy:

Removing the HTML (format) radio buttons:
When you are creating your signup form on the MailChimp site, use the Super Slim form (under Embedded Forms).

hmm, thought thats what i did....let me double check

thanks for answering...

any word on firing it up in a lightbox or at least a new window?

thx

Everything works fine and to the best of my knowledge I have done everything correctly. Here is my php file

Do I add CSS anywhere to remove the HTML/TEXT options?

any word on how to fire this up in a lightbox? Or at least a new window so customers are not take away from the site?

thx

Please don't bump your posts.

As you are the author of this plugin I would like to ask you directly if you have a solution for this to start in a new window or lightbox.

This is not a bump.

Thank you

As the author of this plugin, I don't know. That's why I haven't answered any of your three prior requests for the same information.

You are welcome to experiment and try things out, but repeatedly asking the same question just annoys people and doesn't get you what you want. Why not try a new approach? For example, try digging in to MailChimp's documentation. They might have a way to handle this.

swguy:

As the author of this plugin, I don't know. That's why I haven't answered any of your three prior requests for the same information.

You are welcome to experiment and try things out, but repeatedly asking the same question just annoys people and doesn't get you what you want. Why not try a new approach? For example, try digging in to MailChimp's documentation. They might have a way to handle this.

Here is how to get mailchimp to use a new window upon pressing "Subscribe".

add target="_blank" to line 13 of tpl_mailchimp_sidebox.php as illustrated in the code below

'method="post" target="_blank" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form">';

next step is to throw some javascript in to "size" the new window

then I will work on getting it to start in a lightbox

anybody care / want to help?

If you are using my MailChimp Sidebox plugin for Zen Cart, and you installed it a while back, please take a look at something: the form created by the sidebox should say

NOT

The latter can cause the lock icon to be slashed out, so an SSL page will appear to not be encrypted.

If the MailChimp sidebox is shown on your login page, you can easily test this by going to the login page and checking the lock icon for your site (assuming you have an SSL certificate).

Hello,

I apologize in advance if this question has been already asked on this forum, but will this module work on ZenCart 1.5.4? If not, is it in the planning to update in the near future? The only comments I see v1.5.3.

Thank you,
Admir M.

All my modules work on 1.5.4.

Great! Thank you for your quick reply. :)