Newsletter - Is there a better option?

Nuke Soldier Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Posts: 10

I tried the module from http://www.bariba.de ... it times out for me. I am trying to send a newsletter to almost 400 people and really need the code that will loop that Chatserv mentioned above.

Chatserve... you still have that code?

Thanks

SCROFT

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:10 am

The loop code didn't work as intended and was dropped.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 25, 2003 Posts: 4

Question: has anyone developed a multi-subscriber newslwetter module. Example; subscriber wants to subscribe to certain topics, and doesn't want to get mail she/he is not interested in.

Found a mailer called Oi!, which works fine, but I have to use/maintain two email lists databases.

Would be nice if this feature was intgrated into nuke.

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:37 am

So Cureently there are all of these questionable Newsletters that MIGHT work and have glitches.

Has there been a new newsletter built yet without glitches?

I know everyone wants a better newsletter but it seeems like they have all been failurs.

Support Mod Joined: Mar 19, 2003 Posts: 308

Hi all,

I have been testing the improved newsletter with html that Raven described. But hotmail-accounts seem to put them in the bulk e-mail-map. Is there something wrong in the coding or do I need to add some extra information:

Code:

thanks for any help!

Bart

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 14, 2003 Posts: 1

I'm very interested in the newsletter issues that have been raised above. I'm setting up a php-nuke site to consolidate and replace a static web site, a blog, and a yahoo group.

Is there any way to send all new News postings to all users? Or to allow users to subscribe to receive those automatically? I've got a mod that lets users add particular topics in the Forum to a "watch list" and be notified of changes by email -- I'd basically like to extend that functionality to the rest of the modules.

Right now, the only thing I can apparently do is to duplicate postings in a Newsletter.

Does anybody have a better solution working/in development?

Cheers,
Andy

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 19, 2003 Posts: 3

Hi,

I'm using Bariba's newsletter addon version 1.7.
Does anyone have a code to allow users to change between Text type and HTML type without having to unsubscribe and subscribe again ?

Thanks,

Fed

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 12, 2003 Posts: 8

I'm using Baribas's newsletter 1.71 for nuke 6.5, but it works with an extra table and not with the normal nuke_users one ( to get username, email, etc.)

I have made some changes following the instructions contained in the ADDON NEWSLETTER SYNCHRONIZER v1 : http://www.phpnukedownloads.de/modules.php?name=Phpnuke&d_op=viewdownload&cid=13

but now I get an error when a user activates his account:

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in ... /modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 177

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in ... /modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 178

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in ... /modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 179

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in ... /modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 188

Can someone explain me where is now the problem?? Sad

(The rest is working fine and now the email of the new user get inserted automatically in the nuke_newsletter table)

Another idea: Wouldn't be better if someone find out a method to make that the script gets directly the email addresses (and user name) from the nuke_users table instead from the nuke_newsletter one (or from both, so that both, registered users but also the non-registered but subscribed to the newsletter, can receive it)?

I, personally, don't need this second possibility, I'm not going to use the "newsletter module" and I only need that the registered users can receive the newsletters, but maybe someone wants to have both possibilities.

If someone has an idea (for the only-reg. or for the reg.+subscr. version), please, tell me (us): as I see in the forums, we are lots of people waiting for a really good newsletter feature totally integrated in phpnuke (and without bugs) Smile

Nuke Soldier Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 33

Chatserv,

I tried your mod, but whenever I put in HTML in the box and click preview, it just directs me to the homepage. I have a feeling it is a problem with the "tags" in the code, but I would like to know what tags PHP-Nuke doesn't like.

Thanks

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 13, 2004 Posts: 7

Looks like someone could make a mint if they could find a solution to the timeout error in the newletter.. just charge a dollar for the fix.. wow!

Blessings,
Mercy

Nuke Soldier Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 33

sharlein wrote:

I am starting to work with a module called "Fancy Newsletter". So far so good. I believe you can find it at dutchies site. It will also work in conjuction with "La Newsletter".

Yes, that is a pretty good module. I believe that it still has some problems, but otherwise it works very nicely.

Corporal Joined: Oct 29, 2003 Posts: 51

I'm using your module Fancy newletter 2.3 as well, and it seems great but I can't send emails: I get a 404 error whenever I try to preview or send the letter (click send)...
I foolowed the install procedure, everything seems quite straight forward, but is there something I missed ?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Apr 29, 2004 Posts: 7

can you share the new code here,

Thanks,

Frank

Corporal Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 72

OMG someone just fix the friggin basic newsletter to not time out.
None of the above options work for me.
We have over 20,000 people to send to and can't sue to time out

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:27 pm

I ran into the newsletter problem only a few days ago and have been trying to find a solution but to no avail.

I cannot understand how phpnuke has come such a long way, used by sites with thousands of members, and still have a newsletter module that is pretty useless and dosen't support html;

I've tried the Fancy Newletter, which was so fancy that it suffers from the same timeout problem, so only 145 out of my 3200 members received their newsletter!

I am now looking for an alternative method, something that will extract the email addresses from the database and send them using a different program or any linux compatible mail server.

If anyone is able to suggest a solution, please do so and save us from this torture!

Cheers,