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#325 2007-08-06 23:56:10
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
NeilA,
Both of those issues are annoyingly unresolved. I think the “inserted tabs” is just sleuthing — finding where in the code that is being done, and reversing it in the “strip_html” part of PM code. The “article_context” issue is probably the same. I think I could make that go away if I had time to dig into TXP and figure out how to define article_context. But I never do seem to have the time. I’ve been trying some experiments with the inserted tabs to no avail, but I’ll let you know if I find anything.
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#326 2007-08-07 00:48:26
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
Thanks Ben – I understand the problem of debugging these small problems…
Anyone else out there more experienced than me with PHP want to help track down the ‘inserted tab’ problem?
Cheers
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#327 2007-08-13 22:55:58
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Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
Anyone know how to edit the formatting of this great plug-in? I’m trying to roll out a very simple implementation of the plug-in so that I can collect email addresses for monthly newsletter mailings. What I have not been able to figure out is how to change the “Contact” text that shows up and that ovalish frame. You can see how I have it implemented here Example
I’m a total newbie so any help is appreciated.
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#328 2007-08-13 23:25:30
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
facho,
The subscription form is actually created using zem_contact_reborn, so that’s a better place to go for styling. Check the zem_contact_reborn Help file first (do you know how to find the help files? Go to Admin > Plugins and then click the “View” link next to zem_contact_reborn), and if that doesn’t get you what you need you can ask for help here (the support thread for zem_contact_reborn).
- Ben
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#329 2007-08-13 23:27:44
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Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
thanks, I’ll take a look and see what i can figure out. Muchos gracias.
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#330 2007-08-14 06:31:58
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
facho, the “Contact” text is set by the label attribute in the <txp:zem_contact> tag.
<txp:zem_contact to="your@email.com" label="Subscribe">Your complete form could look like this:
<txp:zem_contact to="your@email.com" label="Subscribe">
<txp:zem_contact_email name="zemSubscriberEmail" label="Submit your email" break="br" />
<txp:zem_contact_submit />
<input type="hidden" name="zemSubscriberLists" value="your-list-name" >
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#331 2007-08-14 11:42:51
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
I noticed that in text mode, not all special characters got filtered out. Encoded ampersands and non-breaking spaces were left in. So I edited the deGlyph function at the end of Postmaster Library:
// ===========================
function deGlyph($text)
{
$glyphs = array (
'’', // single closing
'‘', // single opening
'“', // double closing
'„', // double opening
'…', // ellipsis
'—', // em dash
'–', // en dash
'×', // dimension sign
'™', // trademark
'®', // registered
'©', // copyright
' ', // non-breaking space numeric
'&#nbsp;', // non-breaking space named
'&', // ampersand numeric
'&' // ampersand named
);
$deGlyphs = array (
"'", // single closing
"'", // single opening
'"', // double closing
'"', // double opening
'...', // ellipsis
' -- ', // em dash
' - ', // en dash
' x ', // dimension sign
'T', // trademark
'R', // registered
'(c)', // copyright
' ', // non-breaking space numeric
' ', // non-breaking space named
'&', // ampersand numeric
'&' // ampersand named
);
$text = str_replace($glyphs, $deGlyphs, $text);
return $text;
}The dimension sign was commented out in the second array – was that intentional?
Last edited by andreas (2007-08-14 11:44:54)
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#332 2007-08-14 19:14:59
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
andreas,
Thanks for that. I’m not sure why the dimension sign was commented out — either that was the way the code was when I grabbed it, or I would have done it. Did you get your other issues straightened out?
This could be why NeilA was having trouble with spaces being inserted — NeilA, if you read this, can try replacing the code at the very bottom of Postmaster_library with the code andreas posted above? See if that helps with your “strip_html issue”.
- Ben
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#333 2007-08-14 19:18:30
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
Ben, I also get the spaces with the corrections I’ve made.
I haven’t looked into my other issue with the second form again. Probably going to work on it tomorrow.
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#334 2007-08-14 21:13:55
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
You guys read my mind!
When I saw Andreas post, I thought maybe this was related to the tab issue!
Andreas – let me encourage you to see if you can work out why those tabs are inserted at the start of paragraphs when using the strip_html switch… ;-)
Thanks guys!
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#335 2007-08-15 14:24:40
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
Ben, I got my form-related problem solved – but don’t ask me how :-).
I copied the code/text of the working form into the non-working one and modified it. I double-ckecked all entries in the listst page etc. Then it worked – so it was probably PEBMAC.
Anyway – all’s well at last. :-)
Neil, I have to disappoint you – I don’t really know PHP, I edited that deGlyph function simply based on the pattern that was used and what I observed in the emails. I had a look through the library code looking for hidden tabs in the functions that I understood to be respobsible to put together the emails (function bab_pm_mime) but I couldn’t find any. Sorry.
Last edited by andreas (2007-08-15 14:25:11)
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#336 2007-08-15 15:13:08
Re: [archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager
Another thing: it would be great if tags such as <txp:bab_pm_data display="section" /> could fetch the title of the section instead of the name. Or have an attribute such as <txp:section title="1" />.
Last edited by andreas (2007-08-15 15:13:34)
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