[mod] different text strings for strThisLink = this link

[rrcatto]

[SUBSCRIBE]
[UNSUBSCRIBE]
[PREFERENCES]
[FORWARD]

are all replaced in the email body with "this link"

the global variable (set in english.inc) holds this value:

$strThisLink = 'this link';

this leads to inefficiency.

all i want in the body of the email is

subscribe | unsubscribe | update profile | forward

essentially, phplist needs to allow individual users to customise what text is substituted into the email body for the above placeholders ( [SUBSCRIBE] etc.)

I can do this by editing the php code myself, but of course, then all my changes will be lost when an upgrade comes out.

[Hernol]

An easy way is to edit the html code and insert a link in each word, don't you think?

[rrcatto]

you clearly don't understand the problem, Hernol.

[Hernol]

you clearly don't understand the problem, Hernol.

Jajajaja, ok ok, you are right.
So only hack the code and use your changes.

[rrcatto]

i made changes to english.inc and sendemaillib.php

i added extra $strThisLink variableS for 4 types of placeholders:

[SUBSCRIBE]
[UNSUBSCRIBE]
[FORWARD]
[PREFERENCES]

then I modified the sendEmail function in sendemaillib.php to use those variables instead of $strThisLink in each case.

english.inc [ additional variables ]
$strThisLinkSubscribe = 'SUBSCRIBE';
$strThisLinkUnsubscribe = 'UNSUBSCRIBE';
$strThisLinkForward = 'FORWARD';
$strThisLinkPreferences = 'UPDATE PROFILE';

I kept the ThisLink part intact to make it easier for me to locate the new variables in the modified code.

I would suggest that this facility (to be able to customise what text is substituted for the above placeholders) be incorporated into future versions of phplist.

[Hernol]

That's great, post it in the feature request forum or in the mantis.

[jcorbitt]

I'm not experienced w/PHP, but have a solution for the placeholders for SUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE PREFERENCES that allows customized and fully formed links, which is working in the [FOOTER] of my email template, see below.

<a href="[PREFERENCESURL]&uid=[USERID]" title="Change My Profile">Profle</a> |
<a href="[SUBSCRIBEURL]&id=1" title="Subscribe">Subscribe</a> |
<a href="[UNSUBSCRIBEURL]&uid=[USERID]" title="Unsubscribe">Unsubscribe</a>

But I need help to achieve the same solution with FORWARD. I don't know how to obtain the (&mid=) MESSAGE ID that is required for use with the FORWARDURL placeholder, which I believe would work and look like this:

<a href="[FORWARDURL]&uid=[USERID]&mid=[XXXX]" title="Forward to a friend">Forward</a>

I'm sure it is available, I just don't know how to reference/call/query it. I can implement a solution in XHTML/PHP/Javascript if someone could provide an example.

[johnap]

Hi rrcatto,

Where exactly in sendmail you have modified? can you please put it in detail?

thanks

[johnap]

[quote="rrcatto"]i made changes to english.inc and sendemaillib.php

i added extra $strThisLink variableS for 4 types of placeholders:

[SUBSCRIBE]
[UNSUBSCRIBE]
[FORWARD]
[PREFERENCES]

then I modified the sendEmail function in sendemaillib.php to use those variables instead of $strThisLink in each case.

english.inc [ additional variables ]
$strThisLinkSubscribe = 'SUBSCRIBE';
$strThisLinkUnsubscribe = 'UNSUBSCRIBE';
$strThisLinkForward = 'FORWARD';
$strThisLinkPreferences = 'UPDATE PROFILE';

I kept the ThisLink part intact to make it easier for me to locate the new variables in the modified code.

I would suggest that this facility (to be able to customise what text is substituted for the above placeholders) be incorporated into future versions of phplist.[/quote]

Where exactly the changes need to be done ?

[cogitatio]

Wouldnt it be much better to have something like this:

[UNSUBSCRIBE "Text for link"] - That would be flexible and appropriate for the footer aswell since it could render non-HTML aswell:

Text for link: link here

[Dreyer]

Use the folowing code to create custom links with images or text.


For Unsubscribe:

<a href="[UNSUBSCRIBEURL]">text or image goes here</a>

For forward mail :

<a href="[FORWARDURL]">text or image goes here</a>

For Update Profile:

<a href="[PREFERENCESURL]">text or image goes here</a

[twitch]

does the global change so it holds all of them
global $strThisLinkSubscribe, $strThisLinkUnsubscribe......,$PoweredByImage,$PoweredByText,$cached,

etc or do you just change them in each instance?? as below

$html["unsubscribe"] = sprintf('<a>%s</a>',$url,$sep,$hash,$strThisLinkUnsubscribe);

please help a bit bad at this PHP millarky!!

[jcorbitt]

From my experience, the [xxxURL] format shown below works in the Template Body, but not in the Footer.
==================================================

I believe this

Use the folowing code to create custom links with images or text.


For Unsubscribe:

<a>text or image goes here</a>

For forward mail :

<a>text or image goes here</a>

For Update Profile:

<a>text or image goes here</a

[twitch]

thanks for that - but i'd also love to know how to do this via the php.

[johnap]

[quote="Dreyer"]Use the folowing code to create custom links with images or text.


For Unsubscribe:

<a>text or image goes here</a>

For forward mail :

<a>text or image goes here</a>

For Update Profile:

<a>text or image goes here</a[/quote]


Dreyer
its the easy way of doing things with out burden...thanks