EXT: Ajax mail subscription

Extension Key:	ods_ajaxmailsubscription
Description:	Adds a plugin for subscription to direct mail newsletters.
Author:	Robert Heel <[email protected]>
Copyright:	2008-2016

Introduction

What does it do?

• Adds a plugin for subscription to direct mail newsletters.
• Uses ajax to prevent page reloads.
• Template based design.
• Change personal newsletter preferences (name).

Screenshots

• Frontend plugin

• Frontend plugin, user can change preferences

Users manual

Insert the Ajax mail subscription as frontend plugin. - To add automatically new addresses to a mailing list, select the according list in the field “Add new recipient to group”. - Links appearing in emails sent by this extension (e.g. "To confirm the subscription, please click here") refer to the page selected in the field “Preferences Page”. Note: The selected page has to contain this extension as well.

Plugin option	TS option
Add new recipient to group	default_group
Send HTML email (default on subscription)	default_type
Mail from email	mail_from
Mail from name	mail_from_name
Notify email to	mail_notify
Reply-to email	mail_reply
Reply-to name	mail_reply_name
Return-path	mail_return
Preferences Page	page_edit
Show default value	show_default
Template	Template
Successful subscription mail: Subject	mail_subscribe_subject
Successful subscription mail: Body	mail_subscribe_body
Successful unsubscription mail: Subject	mail_unsubscribe_subject
Successful unsubscription mail: Body	mail_unsubscribe_body
Startingpoint	page_records
Recursive	page_records_recursive

Please see configuration section for description of the fields.

Administration

• In order to add an unsubscribe link to the mail, add the following link to your newsletter template:

<a href="http://[your domain name]/index.php?id=[id to page of this plugin]&u=###USER_uid###&t=###SYS_TABLE_NAME###&a=###SYS_AUTHCODE###">unsubscribe</a>

• If the unscubscription should be done immediately, set authcode_std = del in TS and use this link:

<a href="http://[your domain name]/index.php?id=[id to page of this plugin]&u=###USER_uid###&t=###SYS_TABLE_NAME###&a=###SYS_AUTHCODE###&do=del">unsubscribe</a>

• Unsubscribe user - A tt_address record won't be deleted, instead it will set to hidden (“hidden=1”). This user won't receive mails any more. If you import mail addresses using the direct_mail CSV import, the user remains unsubscribed if “Update existing user, instead renaming the new user” is set.

Template marker

Template file: ods_ajaxmailsubscription_mail.html

Subpart	Marker	Description
###MAIL_NEW... ###MAIL_CHANGE...	###LINK###	Link to configuration page
	###SERVER###	Server name
	###UNSUBSCRIBE_LINK###	Link to unsubscribe

Configuration

Reference

Property	Data type	Description	Default
default_group	group list	Join to these lists or groups. Typo3 database group list, e.g. sys_dmail_category_1, sys_dmail_group_1, fe_groups_1, sys_category_1
default_type	boolean	HTML newsletter. Value of module_sys_dmail_html.	1
mail_from	string	From: Sender email address in system mails.	typo3@###DOMAIN###
mail_from_name	string	From: Sender name in system mails.
mail_notify	string	Notify (un)subscriptions to this address
mail_reply	string	Reply-to: Reply email address.
mail_reply_name	string	Reply-to: Reply name.
mail_return	string	Return-path: Bounce email address.
page_edit	integer	Link to this page in system mails.	$TSFE->id
page_redirect_unsubscribe	integer	Redirect to this page after unsubscription.
show_default	boolean	Show default “[email protected]”.	0
template	string	Template file.	EXT:ods_ajaxmailsubscription/pi1/ajaxmailsubscription.tmpl
page_records	integer list	Record storage page id (Startingpoint)
page_records_recursive	integer	Recursive level	0
edit.fields	string list	Fields used in the preference (edit) template.	gender,first_name,middle_name,last_name,birthday,title,phone,mobile,www,address,building,room,company,city,zip,region,country,fax
subscribe.fields	string list	Fields used in the subscribe template.	email
required.fields	string list	Fields required in the subscribe template.	email
authcode_fields	string	Fields used to generate authcode.	uid
authcode_std	string	Standard authcode does not expire for specific actions: del
authcode_expiration_time	integer	Expiration time of authorized links in email. 0 disables expiration.	60
default_table	string	Add new users as fe_users or tt_address records.	tt_address
mail_confirmation	boolean		0
mail_html	boolean		0
error.stdWrap	string		wrap = <p class="error">|</p>
info.stdWrap	string		wrap = <p class="info">|</p>
javascript	string		EXT:ods_ajaxmailsubscription/res/ods_ajaxmailsubscription.js
mailtemplate	string		EXT:ods_ajaxmailsubscription/pi1/ods_ajaxmailsubscription_mail.html

Example

plugin.tx_odsajaxmailsubscription_pi1 {
        default_group = sys_dmail_group_2
        mail_from = [email protected]
}