By tgeller on

For the site at http://www.savemyhomebook.com: I'd like to make it possible for people to subscribe to newsletters easily, via a simple "enter your email" box on the front page.

Here's how I was thinking of doing it:

1. Install the Email Registration module -- check.

2. Have a checkbox (via CCK?) under the "Enter your email" box to let the subscriber choose whether to subscribe to the newsletter or not. That way one could become a member, and have permission to post to the forums, without subscribing to the newsletter.

3. If the checkbox is checked, subscribe that user to receive email when there's a new instance of a content type, or taxonomy type, or similar, named "Newsletter". (How would I do this? I know there are modules that make it possible, but don't know which ones -- or, if there are several, which woud be best.)

4. Whenever I post the newsletter, make sure it has that content type/taxonomy/whatever.

Is this the best way? Can you suggest others? If this is best, how would I do #2 and #3?

Thanks in advance!

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finchair’s picture

finchair commented

I'm using the Notify module for notifications. It has proven to be fairly configurable for what I need and lets users opt out from their account infomration page if wanted.

tgeller’s picture

tgeller commented

Thanks -- that seems to be half of the solution. What's needed is the "glue" to automatically subscribe members who join via email address to the newsletter. Anyone have ideas? I wouldn't be surprised if a snippet of code is necessary. (I'm not a coder myself.)

Thanks again,

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Tom Geller * San Francisco

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Tom Geller * tomgeller.com * Oberlin, Ohio
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finchair’s picture

finchair commented

I was looking for something to allow for just this, but I'm currently just working based on user accounts.

tgeller’s picture

tgeller commented

Nope, it doesn't look like Notify will work: Its only options are "send me all new content on the site" or "send me nothing". I want people to be able to subscribe to a specific thing -- in this case, blog posts. And that subscription should happen automatically when people register for the site (and have a checkbox selected).

Anybody?

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Tom Geller * San Francisco

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Tom Geller * tomgeller.com * Oberlin, Ohio
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