Entry Mailing Documentation
Requirements
Entry Mailing requires ExpressionEngine 1.6.5 or newer and the jQuery for the Control Panel extension installed and enabled. This extension was introduced with 1.6.5 and if you carefully followed the update instructions you should have it.
If you don’t you can install it like outlined in the aforementioned instructions.
If you intend to send notifications to Mailinglists you obviously need a personal or commercial EE license. The Mailing List Module is not available in ExpressionEngine Core.
Installation
- Unzip the file.
- Upload the file ext.entry_mailing.php to the extensions-folder inside your EE system directory.
- Upload the file lang.entry_mailing.php to the language/english-folder inside your EE system directory.
- In your Control Panel navigate to CP Home › Admin › Utilities › Extensions Manager, find the Entry Mailing Extension and click Enable?
Updating
To update the Entry Mailing extension just act upon the installation instructions above, replacing the old files with the new ones.
Configuration & Usage
Supplement
Not yet shown in the screencast:
Beginning with version 1.1 you have the option to alternatively choose any regular EE template for creation of the message text.
To have access to the data of your weblog-entry use a normal {exp:weblog:entries}-tag without any parameters.
This template is treated like any other template you use to create webpages. That means you have all the usual templating-options at hand to create your email. You can use plugins, relations, embeds and even pull additional data from any other weblogs to supplement your mailing.
You can of course also pull data from weblog entries that are not related to the entry used to initiate the mailing. Just be sure to use dynamic=“off” in the exp:weblog:entries-tags used to do this. Something like
Dear subscribers!
Have you been following our weblog? Here are the topics we presented in July 2009:
<ul>
{exp:weblog:entries dynamic="off" weblog="blog" year="2009" month="7"}
<li><a href="{comment_url_title_auto_path}">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
LG Addon Updater support
If you have the LG Addon Updater extension installed, it can check for Entry Mailing updates if you enable this feature in the Settings.
Changelog
1.2.3
• Added an option to display the entry-mailing-button directly on the publish form
mplates
1.2.2
• using $SESS->cache for parsing form fields. Just because (it saves some queries).
• fixed a bug that could occcur in conjunction with duplicate field names in MSM-sites
• To:, CC: and BCC: fields now accept variables (e. g. custom fields) in the mailing templates
1.2.1
• Re-added support for relative URLs when
is set.
1.2
• Extension settings are now separated per site if MSM is installed.
• Lowered the priority of one method to keep the FieldFrame extension from inserting data into generated mails.
1.1.1
• Fixed a bug occuring when the message-template contains javascript
• rewritten link-excerpt in plain-text generation
• relative links will be turned into absolute links if <base href> is set in the HTML
• small improvements to plain-text generation
1.1
• Added optional support for regular ExpressionEngine templates
• cosmetic changes applied to plain-text generation
1.0
• Initial release
Questions / bug reports
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User Talk
2009-09-16 21:55
Yes I understand there are a lot of options.. But what option does Entry Mailing use? So if you select “Send only to members who have chosen to accept email”” what does that mean… is that emails from Admins, members, what?
2009-09-16 21:47
RE: “Send only to members who….”
It’s in their Account settings… Member Account › Email Settings
Lots of buttons to click there. Lots of fun.
Thus, each member can opt out of different types of emails from different people (members, admins, private messages, etc.).
2009-09-16 21:16
In Entry Mailing there is the following option “Send only to members who have chosen to accept email” what email option specifically does the user need to set in order for this to apply to them… There are numerous email setting within EE.
2009-05-15 04:58
Hmmm. I tried the EE template and got an error on the COMMUNICATE page.
Notice: Undefined property: url in /home/****/public_html/****/extensions/ext.entry_mailing.php on line 1449
Below that… is the COMMUNICATE area but all blank…
and below that is more stuff. I tried to add it to this feedback but it said I was not allowed to.
2009-05-15 04:25
It seems to have worked when I selected
instead of XHTML.
RE: 1.1 - Sweet.
Going to give it a whirl.
Tried it once… not sure I did it right.. got a wild error.
Will read the “how to” again… slower this time.
2009-05-14 18:28
Also, the HTML email coming through does not have the text formated even though I have selected XHTML.
Any issues there?
