Change Receive Newsletter by Email? default to yes

registered · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:44 am

I am running RN v2.2 and I want to set the default option for “Receive Newsletter by Email?” to "yes". I searched the forums and came across two different solutions but they have some issues.

The First one is on post http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postt9894.html
This post feels like the better of the two ideas except that it is now obsolete. The instructions tell us to go to “modules\Your_Account\public\activate.php” and change some values but we no longer have “\public\activate.php”. So I can’t follow these steps.

The Second is on post http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postt13885.html
This post deals with going into phpmyadmin and changing info in the tables. This idea seems to treat the symptom and not the sickness. There should be a way to edit a file in RN that would allow anyone to change the default values.

If anyone knows or can figure out the solution, I would be most appreciative. Very Happy

registered · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:08 am

The second post is the way to do this because the code assumes defaults are in place at the database level. I don't necessarily disagree with your statement of "There should be a way to edit a file in RN that would allow anyone to change the default values", however, if you are not going to keep up on releases, anything we incorporate in the future won't be meaningful to you as with 2.3.x, we changed the YA module significantly... it won't even look the same to you. Much more capable than before (its a somewhat heavily modified CNBYA 5.x code base).

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:23 am

Thanks Montego. Cool

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:10 am

Please be aware the Privacy laws such as the Data Protection Act and various anti-spam legislation (depending on the country) may prohibit a default newsletter subscription or other "opt-in"

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:15 am

Very good point "G". Thanks!