Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I needed to have all my eZine subscribers assigned to an unique role in order to take advantage of the ubercart discount module. I couldn't figure out how to do this without changing code (I think it could be done using actions and/or triggers in v6, but my site is still v5). Am I missing something and could have done this in v5 without writing code?
I had originally hacked the core simplenews module to accomplish this, but decided to try my hand at module development and extend the functionality the "right" way. I have attached my add-on module, which I describe as beta, but I am running on my production site (http://www.trizmpuzzle.com). Before I try and contribute it, I wanted to get some feedback from the community as to whether they think it is useful or not.
Andy
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| simplenews_role_auto-5.x-1.0-BETA.tar_.gz | 2.13 KB | puzzlemaster |
Comments
Comment #1
sutharsan commentedI did not look at the code yet, but please explain the difference with simplenews_roles and why you can not modify this module to get the job done. Btw I know simplenews_roles needs a new maintaner.
Comment #2
puzzlemaster commentedThis essentially the reverse of simplenews_roles. Simplenews_roles takes a group of existing users that have a given role and then subscribes them to a newsletter. This module maintains a table that maps newsletters to roles, and when a user subscribes to the newsletter, it then associates them to the role(s) associated with that newsletter. It can also bulk add newsletter subscribers to a role. This fits my use case much better, as I think the user needs to choose whether or not to subscribe, and the maintenance of the roles stays transparent. Did this help?
Andy
Comment #3
sutharsan commentedI don't like to put any new functionality to the 5.x branch, 6.x and HEAD is where development takes place. This functionality has not been requested before and therefore I don't see a large audience for this in Simplenews.
Comment #4
sutharsan commentedPerhpas you can to combine it with Simplenews Roles. But upgrade to 6.x (or 7.x) first.
Comment #5
joachim commentedSo... what your code does is give everyone who voluntarily subscribed to newsletter A the role B? And this is so Ubercart discounts can see them and give them a discount?
I think from the Ubercart point of view it would be better to code a Conditional Actions condition that tests if a user is a subscriber, rather than go round the houses via role assignment.