I found a bug last night when trying to help Tatey set up a 'newsletter subscription form' page.

First off, the checkboxes for each Newsletter do not show up under the 'Specific newsletters' option in 'newsletter subscription form' page type.

Instead I get this error:

Notice: Undefined variable: nlCheckboxes in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/cms/code/Newsletter/SubscribeForm.php on line 92

I was able to fix that error and make the option show up by changing this line in cms/code/Newsletter/SubscribeForm.php from:
if($newsletterTypes && is_array($newsletterTypes)) {
to:
if($newsletterTypes && is_object($newsletterTypes)) {

The next problem I found was that none of the checkbox selections under the "Specific newsletters" option would be saved unless I made the following change (changing $data['CustomNewsletters'] to $_REQUEST['CustomNewsletters']):
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/silverstripe/diffs/Make-Specific-newsletters-option-work-in-Admin-Panel-only-cms-gsoc-r37164.diff

Then, the checkbox selections were saved in the Admin Panel. I did start getting these errors though:

Error in Ajax evaluator on line 974: invalid flag after regular expression
Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/cms/code/Newsletter/SubscribeForm.php on line 132

Notice: Undefined variable: has in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/core/model/ComponentSet.php on line 94

Notice: Undefined variable: has in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/core/model/ComponentSet.php on line 99

Notice: Undefined variable: has in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/core/model/ComponentSet.php on line 99

Notice: Undefined variable: has in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/core/model/ComponentSet.php on line 99

Notice: Undefined variable: removeList in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/core/model/ComponentSet.php on line 105

Then I tried the frontend, and I got these errors:

Notice: Undefined variable: defaultOption in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/forms/EditableRadioField.php on line 135

Fatal error: Call to a member function getRecord() on a non-object in /var/www/silverstripe-gsoc/sapphire/forms/CheckboxSetField.php on line 20

I was able to fix that fatal error with this change (adding a if ( is_object($this->form) ) statement):
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/silverstripe/diffs/Fix-CheckboxSetField-getRecord-FATAL-error-sapphire-gsoc-r37164.diff

MAIN ISSUE: However, I was unable to fix a major bug where the "Subscribe to lists" option always shows 1 less Newsletter checkbox than is selected under the "Specific newsletters" option on the backend. I tried for a long time to fix this last night, but was unable to.

Hopefully you will have more success fixing this than I did. ;)

My details:
browser, operating system: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty)
web server software, PHP version: Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1
SilverStripe version: gsoc branch revision 37164

Hope this helps,

Elijah Lofgren

Thanks for your help msantang!

I have applied the following changes to the gsoc branches of cms and sapphire:
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/silverstripe/patches/Fix-bug-Specific-newsletters-option-in-newsletter-subscription-form-page-type-does-not-work-cms-sapphire-gsoc-r37301.patch

Here is an explanation of the changes:

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r37304 | elofgren | 2007-06-22 12:46:37 -0500 (Fri, 22 Jun 2007) | 1 line

BUGFIX: Add an is_object($this->form) check to fix 'Fatal error: Call to a member function getRecord() on a non-object' error encountered when viewing a 'newsletter subscription form' page on the frontend. Comment out unset($source[0]) call in order to make all the newsletters selected show up under 'Subscribe to lists'. Thanks to msantang for this fix\! More info: http://www.silverstripe.com/bugs/flat/1675
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r37303 | elofgren | 2007-06-22 12:40:01 -0500 (Fri, 22 Jun 2007) | 1 line

BUGFIX: Change is_array($newsletterTypes) to is_object($newsletterTypes) in order to make the list of newsletters show up under the 'Specific newsletters' option in 'newsletter subscription form' pages and change data['CustomNewsletters'] to _REQUEST['CustomNewsletters'] so that the options will be saved. More info: http://www.silverstripe.com/bugs/reply/1675
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Thanks again,

Elijah

> - In CMS if i select 'allNewsletters' and save when i see the form again 'specific newletters' is selected (but in DB 'allnewsletters' = 1)

I was able to fix that bug with this simple change:
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/silverstripe/patches/Fix-bug-AllNewsletters-value-not-being-passed-to-OptionsetField-cms-gsoc-r37360.patch

I've also committed that change to the gsoc branch of cms:
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r37360 | elofgren | 2007-06-25 12:04:10 -0500 (Mon, 25 Jun 2007) | 1 line

BUGFIX: Make value of 'SubscribeForm->AllNewsletters' be passed to 'All newsletters' and 'Specific newsletters' OptionsetField so that 'Specific newsletters' is not always shown as checked even if 'All newsletters' was chosen. Reported here: http://www.silverstripe.com/bugs/flat/1675?showPost=1741#post1741
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- if is selected 'allNewsletters' or 'specific newletters' show the newletters checkbox in the form in both case.

It does not appear that this is a bug. Rather it seems to be a missing feature.

It does seem to make sense that the Newsletter checkboxes shouldn't be shown if "All Newsletters" is checked or just one Newsletter is chosen.
Looking at SubscribeForm_Controller->Form() in cms/code/Newsletter/SubscribeForm.php it seems like the checkboxes will always be shown.

> - Email type field do not show me the options in form

It looks like these need to be added manually yourself. While editing the Form, click the "More options" icon to the right of "Mail format" and you can type an option and click the green "Add option to field" icon.

- if i fill the form and click submit button i get:

Debug (Debug::showError() in line 133 of Debug.php)
msg =
Couldn't run query: SELECT `Group`.*, `Group`.ID, if(`Group`.ClassName,`Group`.ClassName,'Group') AS RecordClassName FROM `Group` WHERE (`ID` IN ()) | You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '))' at line 1
errorLevel =
256

I don't know what version of SilverStripe you are running, but that same type of error happened in the gsoc branch of SilverStripe for a while before it was fixed.

Do you get that same type of error if you go to /admin/security/ and try to add a member to a group?

What version of SilverStripe are you running?

Hope this helps,

Elijah

The latest daily build (silverstripe.2.0.DailyBuild.2007-06-25) does not seem to contain this bug: http://www.silverstripe.com/contributions/flat/1371?showPost=1746#post1746

Cheers,

Elijah