[plugin] PBTS_XTRA - Mulitple Content Areas in Template

[carterco]

I've not experienced this, before or after I hacked the dickens out of the code, so afraid my answer is "I don't know"... but, allow me to ask:

you are getting both, when?

1) when you send a test message?
2) when you send your message to a list?

If it's #1, then good news (for me): that's the behavior of phpList. One-off's under "send test message" send both Text and HTML, always. (I could tell you where to disable that in phpList's code... but there are reasons for what they do)

if it's #2, wouldn't you reconsider and say it is #1 instead? please?

Let me know. But on the record, I don't KNOW of any reason why it (installing the plug-n-patch pbts_xtra) would do this, it's wired into a fairly safe spot.

[jwatts001]

thanks for the reply...

haha, unfortunately it is #2, but FORTUNATELY, it didn't have anything to do with your plugin. i guess phpList has its radio buttons a little backwards, cause selecting "html only" sends both text and html, but selecting "text and html" sends html only!

i should probably post this elsewhere on the forums, cause i think i saw a few people having this issue.

[carterco]

Ahhhhh....

I know EXACTLY what you're saying! Yes. Actually, if you whip out your magnifying lens, it isn't a bug in phplist, just an unfortunate UI choice. The radio buttons are on what, to nearly everyone's way of thinking, they are on the wrong side of the text. Would be much better if they were on separate lines. Quite confusing.

Glad it worked out and thanks for helping others out with this!

[phpfan]

Hello, carterco.

I'm really excited about this plug-in. I'm tantalizingly close to getting it to work, but try as I might, when I send a test message to myself from the standard PHPList editor (that *is* the only way, isn't it?) or to a test mailing list, I get only the [PBTS_XTRA...] tags in the output message. When I preview the message in the pbts_xtra plug-in editor, it looks great, but when I use the standard PHPList functions to send it, something goes wrong.

More specifically, the output test email message has two parts. At the top of the message are all my PBTS tags in plain text with the values I entered for each. But the tag key word appears as [PBTS_EXTRA...], rather than [PBTS_XTRA...] as I entered them in my template (without the 'E'). Then the second part of the message is just my raw template with images embedded (and the tags written as [PBTS_XTRA...]).

Do you have any idea what's happening? Can you suggest something I should look at?

Thanks,

PHPFan

[phpfan]

[jwatts001]

[phpfan]

Does anyone have any ideas as to why my text-only emails are being output with the PBTS tags still intact? For example, I'm getting this:

[PBTS_EXTRA NAME="monthyear"]May 2006[/PBTS_EXTRA]

instead of just this:

May 2006

The corresponding HTML output looks fine.

Thanks,

PHPfan

[JoaoMartins]

Hello,

this is a great code, i like two view this functionality in core of phplist.

I make modifications in code, for include in default message editor. With may modifications, the "PBTS EDITOR", simple replace de textarea editor (fckeditor, TinyMCE, textarea), if the template selected contain PBTS tags, .
I remove de tab "format", and I placed the select of template, in the first tab because, the detection of "PBTS EDITOR".

I also include the option of htmlarea for type of a PBTS tag, and one function for customize the tag for editor (eg: fill one select with promotion from data base), and one function for customize de value of the tag for send email (eg: obtain the title, and description of the selected promotion, for email). these function are in a separate file to allow to be modified, without the risk to overlap with new versions of the extension.

Briefly i go place my modifications here, I am wait commentary, mainly of the author of this wonderful extension.

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[carterco]

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[OldJoe]

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