Mass Email

Regular Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 50

In the mass email function, is there a way to keep the formating? When I send a mass email it is received in one big paragraph.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

If you're using the standard Nuke newsletter, you need to use HTML (i.e. it won't automatically enter <br> or <p> tags when you press enter).

But, you should strongly consider one of several really good replacement newsletter addons. I like Fancy Newsletter. It gives you MUCH more flexibility, integration with various Nuke content types, the ability to integrate with NSN Groups and NSN Mailing_List and the ability to send yourself a test newsletter first...

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:44 am

Thanks I will check that out.

registered · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:33 pm

Another possibility is the HTML Newsletter which also has the above capabilities with the exception of integration with NSN Mailing_List, but it does integrate with NSN Groups and, in my opinion, is easier to create your own templates for, but I am biased!

ROTFL

See the below link:

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:05 pm

Thanks sounds great. Thanks for your help you guys are great.

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:03 pm

Is there one with a WYSIWYG editor in it? Like spaw?

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:50 pm

edkiefer wrote:

Is there one with a WYSIWYG editor in it? Like spaw?

It has been on the To Do list for awhile now for HTML Newsletter, but when nuke 7.7 came out with it integrated, I was watching to see how well it worked. Not sure if Fancy Newsletter already comes with it? Worth another look. I have definitely not incorporated it as yet, but thinking that since the newsletter creation process is already an admin/author function, it would not hurt to integrate it. I.e., not as risky. However, if you are concerned with W3C Compliance, you might want to stick with the current approach of cut-and-paste your newsletter text into the text box rather than relying on the editor to produce valid HTML!

I will put it on the To Do list for version 1.4 (one release after the one I am working on finalizing now).

Regards,
montego

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:07 pm

montego is absolutely correct - HTML newsletter is another fine choice. I started using Fancy first, and have stuck with that.

I did some integration with FCKeditor and Fancy Newsletter. It would be very easy (replace each text area with one line of PHP code) to integrate with HTML Newsletter, too (or any other textarea, for that matter). I hope to make it available for download before the end of the year, but I'd be happy to send it to you, montego, if you'd like to take a look.

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:44 am

kguske, very much appreciated. If it really is that easy, I might as well incorporate it sooner rather than later. However, I will make it a configurable option.

Yes, please send to me when you get a chance: montego{at}montegoscripts{_dot_}com

Regards, montego

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:13 am

I sent it just now, so please let me know if you did not receive it.

A nice alternative would be to check if one of the includes files exists, and apply the appropriate logic. I am considering doing just that so that you can elect to disable the WYSIWYG editor just be deleting it. You could also replace FCKeditor with something else, if it can be implemented in the same way (i.e. dynamically, as opposed to the all-or-nothing approach used with TinyMCE in PHP-Nuke 7.7+).

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:29 am

kguske, Thanks! Just sent you a reply message as well. Regards, montego

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:28 pm

Can you send it to me also? edkiefer@dvfsite.com
Thanks, Ed

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:50 am

How do I integrate FCKeditor into newsletter.php or fancy-nl.php?