By esend7881 on

I am creating a workflow in Ubercart 2.x such that when a person subscribes to our online magazine, they will also receive a newsletter.

I am using simplenews, but I notice that a person needs to opt-in manually to subscribe to a newsletter...

How can I make the customer get subscribed to a specific newsletter automatically?

I know about Conditional Actions, so I could write a PHP script that does it manually, though I'm not yet sure which function calls to make. For example, is there some function that I can call like:

simplenews_assign_newsletter($uid,$name_of_newsletter)

And I could just throw the customer's UID in there and it will do the rest?

I looked into "simplenews roles" and that looked promising, but it is only for 5.x and it is still in development mode. So, I'd rather not use it.

Any suggestions?

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esend7881 commented

I think I found something promicing...

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/simplenews/...

/**
 * Subscribe a user to a newsletter or send a confirmation mail.
 *
 * The $confirm parameter determines the action:
 *   FALSE = The user is subscribed
 *   TRUE  = User receives an email to verify the address and complete the subscription
 * A new subscription account is created when the user is subscribed to the first newsletter
 *
 * @param string $mail
 *   The email address to subscribe to the newsletter.
 * @param integer $tid
 *   The term ID of the newsletter.
 * @param boolean $confirm
 *   TRUE = send confirmation mail; FALSE = subscribe immediate to the newsletter
 * @param string $preferred_language
 *   The language code (i.e. 'en', 'nl') of the user preferred language.
 *   Use '' for the site default language.
 *   Use NULL for the language of the current page.
 */
function simplenews_subscribe_user($mail, $tid, $confirm = TRUE, $preferred_language = NULL)

Using that function.

I will look into that. If any one has any other advice, let me know. I would imagine a simpler solution is out there since this seems like such a common need.

Hopefully this function I found will work...

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BigMike commented

esend7881: I realize your post is old, but any luck with this?