slashcode-development

[Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the 
newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the 
subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to 
know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

I don't think there was much coding involved at all - I think I just copied the original form for sign up, trimmed out what I didn't want, and added a check box for the list sign up. I probably copied the perl code from the user info page where you usually sign up for the list to the place where the user sign up action happens - I guess it just does a simple SQL statement in the user info. It was a long time ago and it might be a while before I can dig up the details but I don't think it is much more than a few cut and pastes. Maybe I put it in a new perl file, maybe not I don't recall - if my form ACTION line has a strange name, then I guess I made a new one, otherwise I modified the existing one a bit.

Barry

At 05:32 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Barry, that's very slick and exactly the type of thing I was looking for!  I like it because it solves the buried newsletter problem and gets people to sign up right off the front page.
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>Was there much coding involved?  I'd love to add something like that to my health news site and if you are able to save me the time of coding it up I would really appreciate it.  Thanks!
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>i18n wrote:
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>>see www.i18n.com - you sign up for the newsletter (stories only on my site) by opting in when you do a quick sign up. Probably my readers don't even know the difference for the most part - if yours would, that is fine too. 
>>As you can see, all you have to do (from the front page if you are not already logged in) is enter your email address, leave the box checked, and press the button. That gets you a subscription and a membership. I maintain that it is impossible to get simpler than that.
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>>Barry
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>>At 03:34 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 15:34, Marc Murphy wrote:
> Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the
> newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the
> subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to
> know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.

If you look at the latest Rtag of the CVS tree, the new user page has 
checkboxes for 

Replies to my comments will be mailed to me
Send me the newsletter
Send me the daily headlines

(hit http://fry.lottadot.com/users.pl?op=newuserform 
to see it, that's my test-box).

Is that what you are looking for? An easier method for them to subscribe? 
The checkboxes seemed like a pretty damned good idea to me.

I don't think it's possible to let them subscribe w/o a valid user account in 
the website itself.

 Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

see www.i18n.com - you sign up for the newsletter (stories only on my site) by opting in when you do a quick sign up. Probably my readers don't even know the difference for the most part - if yours would, that is fine too. 

As you can see, all you have to do (from the front page if you are not already logged in) is enter your email address, leave the box checked, and press the button. That gets you a subscription and a membership. I maintain that it is impossible to get simpler than that.

Barry

At 03:34 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.
>
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>kinosis.com <http://kinosis.com> - Your Daily Dose of What's Fit to Print!