[mod] Using placeholders in the Subject line

[korondy]

Thank you for this awesome software! I like the versatility and LOVE the price

Please help me further personalize my emails by allowing Placeholders in the Subject. At present, placeholders appear as "Happy Easter to the [LastName] Family!"

[funkypenguin]

Assuming you're using 2.10.5, there are two ways:

The easy (automatic) way

Download and uncompress the attached patch into your PHPList directory, and apply it.

the hard (manual) way

edit admin/sendemaillib.php, look for the following code from line #723 to line #732:

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  if (!TEST) {
    if ($hash != 'forwarded' || !sizeof($forwardedby)) {
      $fromname = $cached[$messageid]["fromname"];
      $fromemail = $cached[$messageid]["fromemail"];
      $subject = $cached[$messageid]["subject"];
    } else {
      $fromname = '';
      $fromemail = $forwardedby['email'];
      $subject = $GLOBALS['strFwd'].': '.$cached[$messageid]["subject"];
    }

DIRECTLY AFTER this code (on line #733) paste the following:

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    // Funky Penguin Mod starts - variable substitution in the subject
    if (is_array($user_att_values)) {
       foreach ($user_att_values as $att_name => $att_value) {
            if (eregi("\[".$att_name."\]",$subject,$regs)) {
              $subject = eregi_replace("\[".$att_name."\]",$att_value,$subject);
            }
       }
    }
    // Funky Penguin Mod ends

Now you should be able to use any user attribute variable in the subject line

[korondy]

Many, many thanks, FP! (Access denied on your website, so I am doing this hard way...)

[funkypenguin]

Access should work now. (Sorry if it's too late!) :p

[metroNlevel]

Works great

Thanks!

~mandy

[Heritage]

I am pretty good with PHPlist and the mod did not work on an install of 2.10.5.

It locks up the send process. Have you submitted this for an official Mod for the next version?

[Guest]

Hi!

I tried this with phplist 2.10.8, and it is "processing the queue" forever (the progress bar just keeps going up and down). This is on a test setup with juts 2 subscribers!

I am using PHP 5.2.6 on Dreamhost.

I'm very new to phplist, so any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
/Sifaan

[deafdavid]

Suggest you contact David who wrote the program at david (at) funkypenguin (dot) info. You can click his link to his website listed above.

[johanl2]

Hi there,

Is there any information on how to get it work with 2.10.10? I've e-mailed the original programmer but probably he's quiet busy at the moment and isn't answering.

I've tried to get the old code work, but the lines of the code referred to seems to have changed. So I tried to find the same type of code (line 755 to 764) but when the extra bit if code is placed it isn't possible to send e-mails anymore. Trying to send a test-message leeds to the 'error' Message saved, but beneath that line it's blank, so that doesn't seem very good. Hopefully someone has a solution.

Thx very much.

[Dragonrider]

In phpList 2.10.10 the lines referred to in part one of the modification are on lines 753-762, add the Funky Penguin Mod after that, ie starting at line 763 and this moves the original code down a few lines, save the file and you can send personlised subject line emails with 2.10.10

(You may need to add the send-core fix - item 5 if necessary)

The final code in admin/sendemaillib.php should look like this (from line 753 on)

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if (!TEST) {
    if ($hash != 'forwarded' || !sizeof($forwardedby)) {
      $fromname = $cached[$messageid]["fromname"];
      $fromemail = $cached[$messageid]["fromemail"];
      $subject = $cached[$messageid]["subject"];
    } else {
      $fromname = '';
      $fromemail = $forwardedby['email'];
      $subject = $GLOBALS['strFwd'].': '.$cached[$messageid]["subject"];
    }
    // Funky Penguin Mod starts - variable substitution in the subject
    if (is_array($user_att_values)) {
       foreach ($user_att_values as $att_name => $att_value) {
            if (eregi("\[".$att_name."\]",$subject,$regs)) {
              $subject = eregi_replace("\[".$att_name."\]",$att_value,$subject);
            }
       }
    }
    // Funky Penguin Mod ends


[johanl2]

Thx very much! Problem must have been within the send-core.php file, but this error only showed up after adding the funky penguin mod.