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[Chris B]

Is there a method to have a newsletter signup form on a standard html page?

Using Version 4.0.19

Thanks

[longhorn180]

I'd like to be able to do this as well. Anyone have any ideas?

[longhorn180]

I found this code in another thread and it seems to work.

<form action="news.php" name="subscribeform" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="subscribe_lng" value="{$store_language}" />
<input type="text" name="newsemail" size="19" />
<a href="javascript: document.subscribeform.submit();" js_to_href="Y">Subscribe</a>
</form>

Here is the link to the thread: http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=32615&highlight=newsletter

[Chris B]

This works for 4.019.

Make sure the path is correct for your x-cart installation...


<Table>
<FORM action="/store/mail/subscribe.php" name="subscribeform">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="redirect" value="customer">
<TR>
<TD>
Your email:
<BR>
<INPUT type="text" name="newsemail" size="16">
<BR>
<A href="javascript:document.subscribeform.submit()" class="VertMenuItems"><FONT class="VertMenuItems">Subscribe&nbsp;</FONT><IMG src="/store/skin1/images/go_menu.gif" width="27" height="14" border="0" align="absmiddle"></A>
</TD>
</TR>
</FORM>
</TABLE>

[2coolbaby]

I had this working in 4.0.18, but since I upgraded to 4.1.8, it no longer works. Anyone know how to fix this for the 4.1 branch?

[2coolbaby]

I realized that I do not have a subscribe.php in my mail folder since x-cart installed the update. I wonder if that was a mistake or for a reason. Any ideas?

[OpheliaPayne]

Use the code at the very beginning, but make sure you have the correct path for news.php. It looks like the "news.php" has replaced the subscribe.php file.

[ottodacat]

Hi,

Actually I went with an iframe solution (i embedded the sign in through an iframe) and leveraged a free open source solutin which gave me a means to manage the user database separately, see:
http://www.selfexile.com/projects/opennewsletter/

[Jon]

As a quick and simple way, all you need to do is go to your x-cart page where your existing newsletter sign-up page is presented. View source on the page, scroll down to the newsletter code, and copy the information between <form and </form> (including anything that provides formatting which may possibly exist outside of these elements).

Then adjust the paths based on it's new location and paste it into your html document.

[connemara]

Thank you Jon and the others as I have been struggling to get this working. I have an image on the head section that links to the html page (subscribe.htm). This all opens with greybox. It is perfect. I can subscribe and get the appropriate results. Last challenge:
The results page is within the default cart layout, but the subscribe is in a fixed window so it looks pretty awful since the page gets squished.

Is there a way to have the "thank you" or results message go to an html page so I can control how it looks to the customer in that window?
Connie