2.2.1 Miimalist Newsletter Signup Box

General General Questions
1

Very simple to do, take note cs-cart developers, people dont want a messy

signup box on their homepage



Use the following code. just replace the whole subscribe.tpl in,



skins/your-skin/customer/addons/news and emails/blocks



itll give you the newsletter box as below, just email box and go button.

defaults to HTML and signs the user up to all your mailing lists



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<br />
{* $Id: subscribe.tpl 10972 2010-10-21 13:58:18Z klerik $ *}<br />
<br />
{if $items}<br />
<form action="{""|fn_url}" method="post" name="subscribe_form"><br />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_url" value="{$config.current_url}" /><br />
{foreach from=$items item=list name="mailing_lists"}<br />
	<div class="hidden"><br />
		<label for="mailing_list_{$block.block_id}{$list.list_id}"><br />
			<input id="mailing_list_{$block.block_id}{$list.list_id}" type="hidden" class="hidden" name="mailing_lists[{$list.list_id}]" value="1" />{$list.object}<br />
		</label><br />
	</div><br />
{/foreach}<br />
<div class="hidden"><br />
	<select name="newsletter_format" id="newsletter_format{$block.block_id}"><br />
		<input type="hidden" id="newsletter_format" name="newsletter_format" value="{$smarty.const.NEWSLETTER_FORMAT_HTML}"><br />
	</select><br />
</div><br />
{strip}<br />
<div class="form-field"><br />
	<label for="subscr_email{$block.block_id}" class="cm-required cm-email hidden">{$lang.email}</label><br />
	<input type="text" name="subscribe_email" id="subscr_email{$block.block_id}" size="20" value="{$lang.enter_email|escape:html}" class="input-text cm-hint" /><br />
	{include file="buttons/go.tpl" but_name="newsletters.add_subscriber" alt=$lang.go}<br />
</div><br />
{/strip}<br />
</form>
```<br />
<br />
To get a gift voucher balance box just copy the form from the gift voucher page<br />
and place iti to a html block<br />
<br />
```php
<form action="/"> <input id="id_verify_code" class="input-text cm-hint" name="verify_code" type="text" value="Enter code" /><input class="go-button" title="Go" alt="Go" src="/skins/basic/customer/images/icons/go.gif" type="image" /><input name="dispatch" type="hidden" value="gift_certificates.verify" /> </form>
2

I agree this is the way to go on the homepage.



Better make the change with a hook though so your change won't be overwritten in the next update.



Thanks for the code!

3

Is this a double opt in method? If it’s not then this will not pass many mailing laws in various countries now! :-(

4

[quote name=‘AmitP’ timestamp=‘1310472877’ post=‘117015’]

Is this a double opt in method? If it’s not then this will not pass many mailing laws in various countries now! :-(

[/quote]



If by double opt in you mean they have to confirm their email address then

you just have to setup aj auto responder that contains %ACTIVATION_LINK:



Then for each mailing list you setup choose this autoresponder.



Once a user signs up they will be set an email containing a link to

click to confirm their email address.



If they dont confirm their email address you will be unable to send

a newsletter using the newsletter addon, if when your making the

newsletter / email you just tick the mailing list boxes in the send to

section

5

Thank you… This codes are helpful… But what window will show when someone join in? Oh well, better try it myself… :)

6

Updated code for 2.2.2


```php

{if $items}




{*

{$lang.text_signup_for_subscriptions}

*}
{foreach from=$items item=list name="mailing_lists"}
{*
*}


{* {$list.object} *}
{$list.object}


{/foreach}
{*
*}



{* {$lang.txt_format}
{$lang.html_format} *}


{strip}

{$lang.email}

{include file="buttons/go.tpl" but_name="newsletters.add_subscriber" alt=$lang.go}

{/strip}

{/if}
```
7

Awesome! This is perfect thanks for sharing kogi and cs-cart-newbie!

8

@kogi, thanks for the update!!!



The gift certificate balance is a great idea too… that's changed in 2.2.2 as well it looks like:



9

I applied this fix to 2.2.3 and it works perfectly for the sidebar block, however, on the checkout, the default layout still shows - any idea why or how to resolve?

10

[quote name='StellarBytes' timestamp='1321161420' post='125857']

I applied this fix to 2.2.3 and it works perfectly for the sidebar block, however, on the checkout, the default layout still shows - any idea why or how to resolve?

[/quote]



Check out is controlled by a different file.



What do you want done?

11

I pinpointed the checkout version down to /skins/yourtheme/customer/addons/news_and_emails/hooks/checkout/checkout_steps.pre.tpl, however, making the necessary changes does nothing, here's what I am using:

```php

{* $Id$ *}



{if $page_mailing_lists}



{include file=“common_templates/subheader.tpl” title=$lang.mailing_lists}



{$lang.text_signup_for_subscriptions}





{foreach from=$items item=list name=“mailing_lists”}





{$list.object}





{/foreach}



{$lang.txt_format}
{$lang.html_format}


{strip}

{$lang.email}

{include file="buttons/go.tpl" but_name="newsletters.add_subscriber" alt=$lang.go}

{/strip}

{/if} ```

I know this 'hack' has no effect on this file and the changes are definitely taking effect as I edited the text after {$lang.text_signup_for_subscriptions} just to ensure I was definitely editing the correct file. Any idea why this doesn't work for the checkout? The newsletter sign-up box looks like it does as default, no change whatsoever.