News Letter

[cabazon]

Hi and thanks for the time to help.

 

In the News Letter Manager I would like to have colums and rows for a pricing grid but osCommerce reformatts the text into lines and I loose the look and order I need.

 

Q, How do I keek the format exactly as I either type it in or cut and paste it in?

 

Thanks for your help! :thumbsup:

[OceanRanch]

I'd create your newsletter in HTML and apply the following patch to allow sending the newsletter in HTML format.

 

In admin/includes/modules/newsletters/newsletter.php

 

around line 63

 

$mimemessage->add_text($this->content);

 

change it to

 

$mimemessage->add_html($this->content);

 

Then just use simple tables for your pricing grid.

 

Have fun.

 

HTH

Tom

[cabazon]

I'd create your newsletter in HTML and apply the following patch to allow sending the newsletter in HTML format.

 

In admin/includes/modules/newsletters/newsletter.php

 

around line 63

 

$mimemessage->add_text($this->content);

 

change it to

 

$mimemessage->add_html($this->content);

 

Then just use simple tables for your pricing grid.

 

Have fun.

 

HTH

Tom

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[cabazon]

Thanks for your time Tom :thumbsup:

 

Making a table would take so many hours as there are hundreds of products to list and in columns with a price at the top.

 

I was able to find line 63 or so and I am amazed that you know the code so well as to direct me to that place to make that change. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!.

 

But, even after I made your recomended change, and after I copy from note pad or word pad then paste into the newsletter text box, I still loose the formatting.

 

Then I did make a table and it did work but it would take me about 8 hours to make the table and enter in all the data. :'(

 

There must be a better way. Why is the text editor so unfriendly in osCommerce?

Is there going to be a team working on that in the near future?

 

Anyhow I am starting to rant a little so I'll just say good night now. :blush:

 

Thanks for the time, Tom et el :thumbsup:

 

 

 

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[Jeremy at oddly enough]

Call me crazy, but if I signed up for a newsletter, I wouldn't expect a dump of your catalog into my inbox! I want something interesting, and hopefully relevant to me, something special!

 

Jeremy

[OceanRanch]

I agree with Jeremy, hundreds of products listed in a Newsletter is a bit overkill. A few featured products and a link back to the site is much cleaner....

 

The change I recommended puts everything into HTML.

 

If you copy/paste straight text into the newsletter in HTML mode you will loose any non-HTML (i.e. newlines, carriage returns etc.) formatting and everything will run together.

 

Use some simple HTML tags surrounding your text and you'll be fine.

 

The simplest one is <pre> and </pre>. Any text entered between thes tags will keeps its formatting including spaces and newlines etc.

 

<p> - new paragraph

<br> - line break

 

A quick reference is here

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp

 

HTH

Tom