I'm looking for a solution for my band's site. I'd lke to have a free standing email subscriptions list on pages like myspace, sonicbids and other sites we use (indepentent from our drupal site) The most important part of this mail subscriber would be that we can collect the subscriber's zip code. This will allow us to mail subscribers in specific cities when we have events in their area.
PHPlist has the ability to do this, but there doesn't seem to be any solution for integrating it in a drupal 5.0 site. If anyone knows of any solutions to look into, please share.
Also if anyone else is interested in this soultion and is willing to chip in please message me.
NOTE TO DEVELOPERS: There are at least 2 other people interested in this project and willing to chip in.
Please contact me if you are interested in providing this solution and we will work out specifics.
ciao
-Mec
mj[at]meczilla[dot]com
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Extending simplenews
I've used and contributed to phpList over the years. I do like what it can do as a stand alone application, but integrating two distinct PHP applications is always very difficult. Maintaining the glue between them as each package produces security releases is difficult. phpList was working on producing an API interface, but I don't think that has proceeded.
If what you need is a city/state code to be associated with a newsletter, we'd happily extend simplenews to store and use this information. We would plan to write a module to extend simplenews and add additional contact information. Let me know if you're interested in a solution like this.
Mike
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Simplenews extensions please
I be very interested in a module which extends simplenews, so that I can collect more than just a postcode. If I could have the option to create a number of additional contact info fields that would be brilliant. I'd been thinking of hooking up PHPlist, having used it before, but like you say it wouldn't integrate nicely with Drupal. How long would it take for a module like this to be released? Thanks.
I think we'd all like it, but how do we get it done?
Someone could probably hack something together for this fairly quickly if they were quite familiar with simplenews. Ideally simplenews will evolve to have some of the complexity that established applications like phpList already has. Being able to add custom fields (like postal code, city, state, dates or other custom fields), set up custom mailing to targeted fields (say if there was an event that was city specific that you wanted to alert people to), and view members of your lists based on that data would be great and would benefit the whole community.
However, it will take some time to build a sound estimate, secure the funding and build the module. Might be just worth commenting on this issue if you think that this feature would help your sites:
http://drupal.org/node/137120
Mike
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