Configurable header and footer content

It would be possible to do, I just wrote it for my own sites needs. I also added a few more substitution variables which may be useful for a footer.

I'll try to separate the appropriate changes from my other local features and submit a patch later today.

Cheers,
Eric

OK, as promised, here's my configurable footers patch.

Adds two textareas to the settings page in their own form group, one textarea is for a HTML footer, and the other is for a plain footer.

I've also changed simplenews_replace_vars a little. It now has a few more (undocumented) variables which it will replace (things like %unsubscribe_uri and %archive_uri).

Hope you like it,
Eric

I'm +1 for this feature...I asked for it combined with another issue.

+1 also from my side...

maybe a special header area is also usefull...

ciao

Thanks for your interest. Now that the updated module is out I'm going to port this patch forward to it and make the footer per newsletter. Hopefully I'll be done with that sometime later on this week.

I thought about adding a header option as well... I might do that while I'm working on this, or possibly I could create a template for each newsletter where the body is included via a %body-text variable? How does that sound? Takes care of headers and footers in one text box :-)

Cheers,
Eric

this sounds very good for me :D

I thought also about something like a template for the newsletter...

how is your patch going on?

ciao tobi

I have this footer feature functioning with the updated module, but it's not yet per newsletter (haven't had time to do that yet). It's still on my todo list though and hopefully I'll get to it within the next week.

+1 for this feature. It would be useful to include the logo of your site, like a lot of newsletters do. An example is the redhat magazine, which I think has the same header and footer each time.

I like the %body-text idea. I think the header and footer should only be added to sent out newsletters, not to newsletter node items displayed on the site.

This patch is against the old version pre-January 28, 2006.

+1 for functionality

Once Mime Mail is used, which is on the simplenews todo list (http://drupal.org/node/40058), this functionality will be available through a theme function (theme_mimemail_message). I was just digging into the code today and found that out, so that will be good. Hopefully, this will be done soon.

Another question though, will everyone want to edit the theme function in order to customize it, or would it be better as a configuration on the site? Most themes on drupal probably aren't going to implement it, for a while at least, so unless you're into php, it's not going to be all that easy.

Is this related to the message appended to all my newsletters:

"-- Footer will be appended here"

Looks silly and I don't see a way to get rid of it.

Oops. Sorry about the last post. Didn't realize that was only included in the test message until I sent a trial-run.

subscribing

We now have cck and simplenews_templates.

You can translate the unsubscribe footer message with localisation, the string is wrapped in a t function:
"Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter" and "Unsubscribe from this newsletter: @url"

The footer generated with the Simplenews_templates module does not overrides the unsubscribe footer so is no solution for this problem, see http://drupal.org/node/139305.

I'm using CCK and removed the body field from the simplenews node type, but still have the hard code simplenews "footer will be appended here" footer present. Please explain how CCK would solve this issue.

Use theming to override the footer.