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Mailing List
I’m wanting to have a semi-mailing list system whereby the user enters their email address and then i can send an email for when a website is online. so for example I have this built so far: http://simplecandy.com/
How can I do this using Textpattern? Can you post any code examples for how I could do this thanks.
~ Cameron
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Hi Driz
postmaster does the job nicely for us:)
Yiannis
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colak wrote:
Hi Driz
postmaster does the job nicely for us:)
I thought Postmaster just subscribed people to the lastest Articles?
Last edited by driz (2009-06-03 16:34:19)
~ Cameron
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No it is a newsletter system. Alternatively you can just use zcr and collect the addresses in your computer. Much simpler to set up.
Yiannis
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I do my best editing after I click on the submit button.
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colak wrote:
No it is a newsletter system. Alternatively you can just use zcr and collect the addresses in your computer. Much simpler to set up.
The plugin describes itself as ‘Simple email-on-post/newsletter manager for Textpattern’ what does the email on post refer to (if not emailing when a post is submitted much like subscribing to articles).
Last edited by driz (2009-06-03 17:22:49)
~ Cameron
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The subscription system of Postmaster works in tandem with zem_contact_reborn. It saves the email address of a subscriber on a subscribers list (a new table on the database).
Email-on-post refers to the ability of sending an email to your subscribers lists (you can have many, different lists of subscribers) when posting an article to Textpattern.
Also, Postmaster can be used to send newsletters: again, those are also TXP articles that may or may not be published publicly in your site.
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How would I set up the mailing list for a simple form like I have on http://simplecandy.com/
I’ve looked at the Postmanual but they all seem to want to send the subscriber info to an email address, when what I would want to is just save the email address on the subscriber list.
Last edited by driz (2009-06-03 17:24:07)
~ Cameron
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include a checkbox called “zemDoSubscribe” as per this documentation you can even have it checked by default and hidden with css.
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So by having this plugin installed ALL ZCR forms are then assumed to be Postmaster ones unless stated otherwise?
~ Cameron
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No.
All ZCR are just contact forms unless you set up it properly to be a ZCR + Postmaster subscription form.
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I still don’t get this plugin :/
Could you post the code for a very simple form that basically just collects the users email and submits it to the list and nothing else! Mebbe I might be able to understand it better then :P hopefully anyways. thanks.
also with regards to this checkbox could it not just be a <input type="hidden" />? and how would I choose which mailing list the form submits to?
Last edited by driz (2009-06-03 18:03:45)
~ Cameron
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<txp:zem_contact label="" to="your@email.com">
<txp:zem_contact_text name="zemSubscriberName" label="##your_name##" />
<txp:zem_contact_email name="zemSubscriberEmail" label="##your_email_address##" />
<txp:zem_contact_secret name="zemSubscriberLists" value="notification newsletter" />
<txp:zem_contact_submit />
</txp:zem_contact>Of course, this will send and email to your@email.com, as some kind of notification of the recent subscription.
Last edited by maniqui (2009-06-03 18:13:18)
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