Hello

I'm running silvertstripe 2.3.3 with newsletter trunk "newsletter-trunk-r88195.tar.gz"
I did manage to install it, have some contact list etc.

My main problem like lots of people here is tog get the template system to work.

I try follow the http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=modules:newsletter instruction but I don't get :

1) where _config.php is located (is it the main one or the one in the newsletter folder)
2) when I try to add those two line :
Email::setAdminEmail(’<default from address>’);
Object::useCustomClass(”Member”, “<custom member classname>”);

and flush I get a blank page. (in both _phpconfig files)

I'm very stuck by all this, and it seems more complicated than using templates in Silvestripe itself ;)

Can anyone show me a way of proceding or direct me to a post answering thos question (eventough I search the forums but did not find anything that halped me a lot)

Thanks in advances

1) Doesn't matter, but it's better to put your custom code in mysite/_config.php
2) That's because you copy/pasted it from the docs and the quotes are wrong there. Should be:

Email::setAdminEmail('<default from address>');
Object::useCustomClass('Member', '<custom member classname>'); 

Hi thanks for the answer .

But when I try to add thos two line and flush I get a blank page as a result of flush not the usual list of database field and all

Maybe it has to be inserted somewhere specific inside the _phpconfig file.

Let me know.

Thanks Again

T

There's no such thing as a _phpconfig file. It's _config.php.
When you're getting a blank page, you most likely have an error in your code somewhere. Check the PHP error log to find out where.

OUps sorry I meant _config.php

Anyway I was wonedring where to put those two lines in the _config.php file

I did it like this but it is not working (blank page after flush)

Any advice Thanks

<?php

global $project;
$project = 'mysite';

global $databaseConfig;
$databaseConfig = array(
"type" => "MySQLDatabase",
"server" => "localhost",
"username" => "xxxxxx",
"password" => "xxxxxx",
"database" => "xxxxxx",
);

// Sites running on the following servers will be
// run in development mode. See
// http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=devmode
// for a description of what dev mode does.
Director::set_dev_servers(array(
'localhost',
'127.0.0.1',
));

// This line set's the current theme. More themes can be
// downloaded from http://www.silverstripe.com/themes/
SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandy');

// set email template folder to themes/mytemplate/templates/email
NewsletterAdmin::$template_path = "themes/mytemplate/templates/email";

// Newsletter set up
Email::setAdminEmail('<default from address>');
Object::useCustomClass('Member', '<custom member classname>');
?>

T

Like I said: If you get a blank page, there's probably an error in your PHP code somewhere. Check the PHP error log.

Thanks I did check and corrected the php mistake ( some quote problem)

Now I have another problem I followed the instruction for the template settings and I ca not get it to appear in the dropdown menu .

My _config.php is in mys site and is set like this :

<?php

global $project;
$project = 'mysite';

global $databaseConfig;
$databaseConfig = array(
"type" => "MySQLDatabase",
"server" => "localhost",
"username" => "xxxxx",
"password" => "xxxxx",
"database" => "xxxxx",
);

// Sites running on the following servers will be
// run in development mode. See
// http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=devmode
// for a description of what dev mode does.
Director::set_dev_servers(array(
'localhost',
'127.0.0.1',
));

// This line set's the current theme. More themes can be
// downloaded from http://www.silverstripe.com/themes/
SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandy');

// set email template folder to themes/mytemplate/templates/email
NewsletterAdmin::$template_path = "themes/mytemplate/templates/Email";

// Newsletter set up
Email::setAdminEmail('<default from address>');
Object::useCustomClass('Member', '<custom member classname>');
?>

my pemplate is in themes/mytemplate/templates/Email and is like this

CAn you tell me if all this is corect, maybe I missed something

Thanks for your time and help

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<style>
...
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1><img src="http://www.mysite.com/images/image.png" alt="My Image" /></h1>

<div class="body">
<p>Dear $Member.FirstName,</p>
$Body
</div>

</body>
</html>

T

It's working !

I was rtying to change the template folder

Thanks a lot