[Snippet] Newsletter (Improved version from Luca Allulli)

first of all, thanks for the nice snippet.

i use this snippet on a local installation (XAMPP - MODx 0.9.1 ).
for testing purposes i copied the same code from wendy’s testserver example. ( of course, i modified the link-ids).
but, i get a parser error:

« MODx Parse Error »
MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« Execution of a query to the database failed - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’?mode=signup ) AND (sc.privateweb=0) LIMIT 1’ at line 4 »
SQL: SELECT sc.parent FROM `esoulate`.esoulate_site_content sc LEFT JOIN `esoulate`.esoulate_document_groups dg on dg.document = sc.id WHERE (sc.id=41?mode=signup ) AND (sc.privateweb=0) LIMIT 1

what’s gone wrong?

thanks for help, le block

solved the mysql error.
obviously, i didn’t create the the document and user group in th right way.
After creating this, the error message is gone,but i don’t get the newsletter to work.
I dont’t know to th eprper usage of the the call (or the functionality).

maybe someone can give me the right hint.
i wanna have a page(e.g. id=17) where frontenduser (without any registration) are able to sign in a emailadress.
after preessing the signin-button a page should called (e.g. id=18) with a response text ("thanks for signing in...).
The backend user (admin) schould be able to write newsletters.

whats about a link in a received nesletter for unsubscribing the newsletter .surely a link to the cms-page with the unsubscribe call.Am i wrong?
thanks for help, le block.

Try RegisterX
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4799.0.html

Hi I tested this snippet last and it worked perfectly for sending text and html newsletters when the snippet is called with &mode=`msg`.

However when I changed the call to &mode=`doc` I get the following error:



Any idea how I can go about correcting this? I’m going to try and setup a test document with a very simple table-based layout and see if I can get it to work since I do some complex templates for all my other pages.

It seems that CURL package is not available in your php installation. The curl_init() function that the error message refers to depends on that package.

Hi thanks for the direction, I installed the curl package and got it working. Email does now get sent when using &mode=`doc` but all I receive in the email client is a message containing "1". Any idea what I’ve done wrong?

I haven’t looked into this snippet very much.. what the "doc" mode should do?

As far as I know it should send the document I selected as either a text or html email message.

That sounds like a bug in the snippet; if you use the line "return <some_function()>;" what you’ll get is the return value of that function, not the results of the function. For example, if your snippet includes a file, and you use "return include(’myfile.php’); you’ll get a 1 on your page.

I haven’t looked into the newsletter snippet, but that result sounds very much like a similar bug.

Thought it might be something like that, has anyone successfully sent a page as an html email using this snippet?