Newsletter Text

Newbie Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 3

Great so far lads...

One problem though, everytime i try to send an email, i keep getting this message:

Newsletter Text: Required field must be given a value

Even thought i do have text in the newsletter text :S

When i go back and then click submit again, it works perfectly :S

Any ideas?

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 387

I can't say I have ever experienced this proble. Which browser are you using?

Newbie Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 3

I am using internet explorer!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1360

I have never seen this either. What nuke version are you using and are you using a javascript based WYSIWYG editor?

Newbie Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 3

I do have the editor

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1360

But, you still have not answered which PHP-Nuke version... Sad

The HTML Newsletter module was NOT designed to work with anything over 7.6, so that could be the problem.

Sorry... I have plans to try and correct that in the next version, but have not had the time to plan out that version, let alone code. Sad

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

i have the same problem , i can't send or preview any newsletter i create, it keeps telling me that error. I use phpnuke 7.9!
I saw i get the same error when trying to add a new category. It seems like the problem is with the text tiped anywhere like "description" or something like that. "THE FOLLOWING FIELDS FAILED VALIDATION:

Category Description: Required field must be given a value"

So there is no way i can repair it ? if not, what newsletter do you suggest for 7.9, if there are any, please i will appreciate it.
Thanks in advance

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

Ok never mind i figure it out (by luck ) Wink

So the things you have to do if you get the above error:
Tipe your text or html codes or whatever in the newsletter text and then select it all with your mouse and click on the "cleanup messy codes". Try to send, if you still get the error then click back and do the same thing, the second time will work for sure Wink

That should do it, at least it worked for me...

I still have a question:
Is it possible to make the newsletter read info from other forum module than the one pre-installed in phpnuke ?
I ask this becouse i don't use phpbb from phpnuke i have splatt forums installed and i want to know what should i need to change to make the newsletter read the content from that forum. If you guys need some info, like whats the database name, or something like that please let me know...
Ciao

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1360

Quote:

Tipe your text or html codes or whatever in the newsletter text and then select it all with your mouse and click on the "cleanup messy codes". Try to send, if you still get the error then click back and do the same thing, the second time will work for sure

Yeah, like I said above, I do not yet support versions 7.7 and above. The way the advanced editor was implemented in those releases FB basically stripped out all the security checks. I still struggle with the thought of supporting it to be honest.

Regarding your quesion about support another forum tool, I am sure it is possible, but I would not be of much help to you. I use only phpBB and have no plans on supporting any other forum tools since they do not come with PHP-Nuke.

However, with that said, the script that you would need to customize is this one here:

Code:

modules\HTML_Newsletter\admin\admin_make_nls.php

You would need to change this code around this line for the statistics:

Code:

//Total Amount of Forum Topics

And here for the actually pull and display of the latest posts:

Code:

************************************************************************
* Build the Latest X Forum Posts - to replace the {FORUMS} tag
************************************************************************/

The problem is that nuke's database abstraction layer cannot be used unless your Splatt forum tables are inside the same database as your nuke database. You would have to re-write the calls in these two places to go against the spatt database using native mySQL calls.

Sorry, just not something I have time to do.

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

heh, its ok...
I have the splatt forums database in the same place as the nuke database.
If i was good at programming i'd give it a try, but maybe i'll just mess it up, and i'm sure i don't want that Wink

Good luck!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1360

If it is the same database, it should be much, much easier. But, you would have to figure out the table differences. So, knowing SQL, even just a little, would be important. But, beyond that, maybe give it a try?