I posted in another threat about WordPress newsletter plugin and if that can be used to help build similar plugin for glf?

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Dennis

I posted this into Plugin Ideas for GLF? well, feel free to move this post

My newsletter plugin works w/ glf and would be a far better starting point.

-s

Thanks for sharing,

As your latest update is from 2009 and from what I can see it offer very simple sign up form and can only be manually installed.
As you said, can be used as a staring point.

Some features I would like to see:

Sign up form
Can be added to a block
Can be used as an Ajax slide in or pop up when entering/leaving the site.
Double Opt-in

I like to know where my subscribers are coming from,
Forms, same or similar as when you sign up to glF. Make option to add forms such as country.
Fore those marketing to local market could us State/City/Town etc...

Newsletter creation
Text editor like the one I am using right now or similar!
Can use/import ready made e-mail templates and store them for later use.

Import/Export list:
Manually add names and email addresses, import/export as .txt and CSV

When sending your letter, as in glf, option to send to groups and/or country etc.
(makes a huge difference when sending special offers/news to a targeted market)

Dennis

can only be manually installed.

trivial fix

Text editor like the one I am using right now or similar!

this was built from the staticpages plugin, so it same editors available

Can use/import ready made e-mail templates and store them for later use.

Already has cloning functionality.

Manually add names and email addresses, import/export as .txt and CSV

already in admin interface import/whitelist/blacklist


-s

Tried to install but got this error which put my site down!:

An error has occurred:

(This text is only displayed to users in the group 'Root'

2 - filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for block_small.thtml @ /home/mysite/public_html/private/system/classes/template.class.php line 1672

Dennis

There's a "themefiles" directory in the plugin archive that I think needs to be copied under your layout directory. The directory contains a "newsletter" subdirectory, so you should end up (assuming that you use Nouveau) with public_html/layout/nouveau/newsletter, and the templates will be in there.

I don't know if that's the only difference, but it's one that relates to your current issue.

Thanks Lee,

This solved this issue.

Dennis

sorry on the road today. glad you got it resolved.

Just an FYI to any email newsletter users:
HTML email is still to this day a pain in the a%#. Its like stepping back into the '90s.
Two great articles from Sitepoint to help you better understand and better structure:
http://www.sitepoint.com/code-html-email-newsletters/
http://www.sitepoint.com/principles-bea ... tml-email/

Have fun.

-s