For sites that aren't open to user registrations, it would be nice to be able to capture a little bit of additional information on 'anonymous' (i.e. non-user) Simplenews subscribers, like their full name, and maybe an affiliation and address too. Someone had submitted a similar feature request but was asking for more info about the subscription itself (date submitted, etc.) and not the subscriber.

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Bevan’s picture

Bevan commented

Other somments about this feature are here: http://drupal.org/node/127178

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Bevan commented

It would be nice for this information to be stored in the profile.module's tables so that the user attributes entered here could be recycled be other modules and features on a drupal installation. Saving user attributes for anonymous users could be an issue. possible solutions for anon subscribers could be:

Register them, using their email address as a user ID, or a generic username, like subscriber-123, where 123 is the UID.

Use another relation from profile table to subscriber table, or store anon subscriber info in simplenews own table. This would make a site that allows user signups AND anonymous newsletter subscription potentially difficult to maintain, but would probably work fine for private sites that don't allow user signup.

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dualdiesel commented

I'd like to be able to collect zip codes... so

*bump*

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sutharsan commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Please continue the discussion on this subject here: http://drupal.org/node/76575

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pelicani commented

I'm a fan of the Bio module (not so much profile), but for anonymous users this won't work.
http://drupal.org/node/127178
Here is some discussion on using the webform module.
I'm going to try it out.
Seems to be an uber flexible solution.