eZ newsletter extension

Monday 22 May 2006 9:59:23 am

Hi,
I have spent some time playing with the newsletter extension.

These are the results:

First of all, I am running a 3.6.7 version, on php_4.3.11.
I patched the kernel and the main functionalities are ok, so it seems it is working on 3.6, either.

:-)

That said, here are some questions:

1. There are three "related object" fields in the Subscription list and in the Newsletter type forms. What (on Earth) are they supposed to mean?

2. What are the meaning and function of the "Inbox" folder? I suppose it's a folder where reply to the newsletter messages from the users are stored (... suggestions). But how can it be binded to the pop3 account of the originating e-mail address?

3. The unsubscribe view is bound to an unsubscribe.php file which does not exist at all! Any ideas?

4. The binding between the ezuser and the ezsubscriptionuserdata table appears to be existing, but is not at all clear and is poorly documented. Are there any further insights, as far as you know?

5. A newsletter item has a "Category" field. Is it just a test, or what?

The rest goes on pretty smoothly.

Thursday 25 May 2006 12:37:03 pm

Hi,

ok i will try to clear all your questions.

1. Those are for build in for further use. You already can use them and access them later in the templates for displaying additional informations.

2. For importing into the inbox ( suggestions form employees or feedback from subscribers) you need the mail import extension ( http://ez.no/community/contribs/import_export/ezmailimport ) that will handle the import of mails.

3. That we will check. If you want make a bug report out of it. There is already a category for newsletter.

4. Yes it exists. Its optionally. If ez publish users register to a subscription list the subscription is connected with the ez publish user.

5. That was a customer request. You can access this in for example in the template of the newsletter ( $newsletter ).

@Alexandre: When you want to send out the images embedded with the email you have to use an append block {append-block scope=global variable=$imageFileList}filepath_to_image;url_of_image{/append-block}. That we will defineatly make easier very soon.

I hope i answered all you open questions. Elsewise notice me :).

Cheers

Friday 22 September 2006 1:51:36 am

I am still in need of a subscription form.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Friday 22 September 2006 3:20:52 am

Thanks,

I've managed to get the form to display by using the list ID

newsletter/register_subscription/1

But the form fields are all disabled.so I cant edit them

I would like to try the hash value approach, how do I finf the hash value?

Thanks