Multiple Newsletters Extension

Thanks! I’ll definitely test it as soon as time permits.

I updated the extension to version 1.1.

Version 1.1 adds a “Custom Javascript” field which you can use to add some extra javascript to the page, you can use this to select checkboxes, set the value of drop-down menus etc. so your client does not have to worry about that part.

You could add this for example:

// ============================================
// Formatting (plain, html)
document.forms['0'].mailtype.value ='html';

// Word Wrapping (y, n)
document.forms['0'].wordwrap.value ='n';

// Priority (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
document.forms['0'].priority.value ='3';

// Send to Mailing Lists (list_1, list_2, etc.)
document.forms['0'].list_1.checked = true;
// ============================================

Of course this feature requires some javascript knowledge.

If you were using 1.0 you’ll have to update your language file to add the Javascript field.

Enjoy

Hi, trying desperately to get this to work so I can give it a whirl. I changed the variable names in both the extension and language files, enabled the extension (Paul Burdick’s has been disabled - it’s didn’t do what I needed anyway) and added the tab as you suggested. Once I clicked on the tab I got this error message:

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /www/pmh5340/public_html/publish/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 170

Notice: Undefined index: 1 in /www/pmh5340/public_html/publish/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 172

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /www/pmh5340/public_html/publish/extensions/ext.multiple_newsletters.php on line 175
MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1064

Description: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1

Query: SELECT group_name FROM exp_template_groups WHERE group_id =

Any thoughts?

—EDIT—

I hadn’t hit submit on the email template setup page. That’s what threw the error. This is pulling content exactly as I had hoped. So far, so good.

Thanks! Scott

I installed this on some test sites and had no problems – it’s a really neat solution that you came up with. But I tried it on a live site and the “create newsletter tab” link did not show up in the newsletter extension settings. Any thoughts why that happened and any steps to workaround that?

Thanks!

No idea why the link isn’t showing.

There is a simple workaround for creating tabs. Point your browser to this page and change the last part of the URL to match the name of your newsletter.

http://domain.com/system/index.php?S=0&C=myaccount&M=tab_manager&link=C–communicate/newsletter–NEWSLETTER_NAME

Great, I’ll give that a shot. Thanks for the quick response!

Those links are actually stored in the language file, could you chack and make sure you have the latest version?

it should look something like this for each newsletter:

<?php

$L = array(

"EN_subject" =>
"Subject",
"EN" =>
"English Template - <a href="http://index.php?S=0&C=myaccount&M=tab_manager&link=C--communicate/newsletter--ENtarget=_blank" rel="noopener">Create Tab</a>",
"EN_scripts" =>
"Custom Javascript",

etc...

Yes, that is what I have:

"EN_subject" =>
"Subject",
"EN" =>
"English Template - <a href="http://index.php?S=0&C=myaccount&M=tab_manager&link=C--communicate/newsletter--ENtarget=_blank" rel="noopener">Create Tab</a>",
"EN_scripts" =>
"Custom Javascript",

Ok, thanks.

Still no idea why the link isn’t showing up :ohh:

Just a thought but I’ve got the multi-text extension and was wondering if that lanaguage file being so closely named to multiple_newsletters might have contributed to the problem. I may investigate this at a later time.

Hi Cocoaholic, just a couple of q’s about your ext..

We currently have an english newsletter on our site, but we would slowly like to roll out also an italian, french and spanish version.

Ideally visitors would be able to choose which version they can subscribe to and receive the email confirmation in their native language. Is this what your extension achieves?

thanks, kenny

Hi Kenny,

Not exactly, but you can use it for the purpose. All the extension does is allow you to use regular templates as a basis for (more than one) newsletters.

Visitors that visit your site cannot subscribe to a newsletter directly, they subscribe to a mailinglist, and you decide what to send to that particular list. see docs.

You could have a mailinglist for each language, and setup the extension to check (select) the correct mailinglist by default in the communicate page.

There are some examples on how to do this in the README.txt

I might look into updating the extension and add some more settings instead of having to do this manually using javascript.

Hi, yes that is exactly what i have done (set up individual mailing lists), however there seems to be only one Mailing List Activation Email template. I suppose I could include text in all languages in this template but that is a bit messy. I was wondering if I could use an if structure in this template to sniff out what mailing list is active and display only the relevent text.

Hi Cocoaholic. This sounds like a very exciting extension. However, I can’t get the tabs to appear in the communicate tab, running EE 1.6. Any ideas?