Re: FN-FORUM: drupal technical question

date posted 17th January 2007 10:31

hi alex,
many thanks for your suggestions. the problem is i don't know enough about
the development side of things to implement this, and don't have a budget to
outsource it on this particular community site. i was sort of hoping there
might be an web admin solution (add a module or something!) to fix this one!

i'll investigate further. have also asked the question on the drupal support
forum.

cheers
cat



> From: Alex Libby [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Date: 16 Jan 2007 21:08:26 -0000
> To: "FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: drupal technical question
>
>
> Hi Cat,
>
> I don't know Drupal technically, but do have an idea which may be worth
> checking out:
>
> When you generate the email to confirm the subscription, I assume that you
> would have an email address within the link, or at least something to
> identify who the member is? For arguments sake, let us assume that the
> member id is an email address - is there any way you could include a
> parameter within the link, to identify if the user is a member or not (such
> as http://www.joeblogs.com/index.php?id=joe&mem=0) ? If not, then could you
> perhaps set the link to redirect from the "confirm subscription" page, to
> maybe a couple of standalone pages on your site, which access the same
> database as the main site? (This assumes that members would stay on the same
> confirmation page).
>
> I know this means extra work, but on the assumption you see what I am trying
> to explain, it could be designed so that the database stores a record of the
> email address of the non-member (as login ID), and a switch / setting which
> indicates whether they are a member or not. This may then be usable to
> conduct an email campaign to see if any non-members change their minds and
> do want to become members - provided that they are still registered and
> happy to receive a select number of emails from the site.
>
> Something to think about - my apologies if I am way off base here, and it
> turns out to be a non-starter!
>
> Alex.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 16 January 2007 13:27
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: drupal technical question
>
>
> hi,
> i'm using drupal for a new community site i'm setting up. first time i've
> done this sort of thing, but it's going very well so far.
>
> question: i am hoping to utilise the newsletter functionality to push email
> content to subscribers. this is all ok, apart from one thing.
> the site itself is a 'closed community' - members need to be signed up and
> approved by admin to access the site. however, i also have a signup 'block'
> on the anonymous user frontpage for the newsletter, hoping to allow
> non-members to also sign up for the newsletter. i.e. they can't access the
> full site, but will receive emails.
>
> this is fine, but the only thing is when a non-member enters their email
> address into the newsletter signup 'block' and submits, they then receive a
> confirmation email with a link to 'confirm subscription'. this link doesn't
> work because it obviously gives them a 'access denied' message, as it's
> within the main website content.
>
> is there a way around this - i.e. to allow non-members into a couple of
> specific 'nodes' or 'pages' to allow the email confirmation to work, but not
> give them access to the main site content?
>
> btw, it's v4.7.4 i think, NOT v5.
>
> cheers
> cat
>
>
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