FrontEndUsers to NMS (via SelfRegistration)

[Ted]

I'm in the process of setting up a paid registration site.  One of the things that I wanted to do was set it up so that users who register have the option of signing up for a mailing list.

So, I setup FrontEndUsers, SelfRegistration and NMS.  I just setup the standard FEU + SelfReg combo that's been discussed before.  The only real thing of note was that I created a checkbox property called mailing_list and assigned it to my group.

I then setup a list in NMS, which gave me a mailing list id of 1 (keep info for later).

The next step was to create a user defined tag.  I named it feu_to_nms or something -- doesn't really matter.  I then used this code:

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if (!function_exists('MyGetModuleInstance'))
{
        function &MyGetModuleInstance($module)
        {
                global $gCms;

                if (isset($gCms->modules[$module]) &&
                        $gCms->modules[$module]['installed'] == true &&
                        $gCms->modules[$module]['active'] == true)
                {
                        return $gCms->modules[$module]['object'];
                }
                // Fix only variable references should be returned by reference
                $tmp = FALSE;
                return $tmp;
        }
}

global $gCms;

$nms = MyGetModuleInstance('NMS');
$feu = MyGetModuleInstance('FrontEndUsers');

if ($nms == FALSE || $feu == FALSE)
  return false;

//Get User
$feu_user = $feu->GetUserInfo($params['id']);

//Do they really exist?  Why are we here anyway?
if ($feu_user)
{
    //Did they click the checkbox?
    if ($feu->GetUserPropertyFull('mailing_list', $params['id']))
    {
        //Add user to NMS
        //array(1) -- represents the id of the mailing list to add them to.  Change the 1 to whatever you want.
        $nms->AddUser($feu_user[1]['username'], array(1), $feu->GetUserPropertyFull('first_name', $params['id']) . " " . $feu->GetUserPropertyFull('last_name', $params['id']));

        //Set the confirmed flag to true (they clicked the checkbox -- that's enough)
        $db =& $gCms->GetDb();
        $db->Execute('UPDATE ' . cms_db_prefix() . 'module_nms_users SET confirmed = 1 where email = ?', array($feu_user[1]['username']));
    }
}

This code makes a lot of assumptions, so you will have to change it to taste.  For instance, I'm concatinating my first_name and last_name properties to create a name in my NMS user.  I have FEU setup to use email address as the username -- if you don't, then you'll have to make some adjustments for that as well.  There is also a slight hack in there to set the user as confirmed, since NMS's API doesn't give me the option on user creation.  Also, look at the note for which mailing list id to use.

Then, I went to the Events list and found the "onUserRegistered" event.  I edited it and added my feu_to_nms UDT to the list.

Now, whenever someone registers and clicks that check box, the event will fire, this code will run and the user gets added to the mailing list.  Easy peasy.

[JeremyBASS]

sweet.. thanks for sharing

Cheers

[cms_man]

Hi Ted ,

Thanks a lot  for  sharing the  code with the community. You really helped me lot.
I was  banging my head for couple of days how  to disable the user  if they decide to change their info and uncheck the box.
I have  the  following code that does not work for some reason. I hope  you  have the  solution.

Thanks in advance
Chris

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if (!function_exists('MyGetModuleInstance'))
{
        function &MyGetModuleInstance($module)
        {
                global $gCms;

                if (isset($gCms->modules[$module]) &&
                        $gCms->modules[$module]['installed'] == true &&
                        $gCms->modules[$module]['active'] == true)
                {
                        return $gCms->modules[$module]['object'];
                }
                // Fix only variable references should be returned by reference
                $tmp = FALSE;
                return $tmp;
        }
}

global $gCms;

$nms = MyGetModuleInstance('NMS');
$feu = MyGetModuleInstance('FrontEndUsers');

if ($nms == FALSE || $feu == FALSE)
  return false;

//Get User
$feu_user = $feu->GetUserInfo($params['id']);

//Do they really exist?  Why are we here anyway?
if ($feu_user)
{
    //Did they click the checkbox?
    if ($feu->GetUserPropertyFull('newsletter', $params['id']))
    {

        //Set the confirmed flag to true (they clicked the checkbox -- that's enough)
        $db =& $gCms->GetDb();
        $db->Execute('UPDATE ' . cms_db_prefix() . 'module_nms_users SET disabled = 1 where email = ?', array($feu_user[1]['username']));
    }
}

[tyman00]

Nice work Ted. I'll be bookmarking this thread for future use

[cwboaze]

would love to also have it run a event  OnDeleteUser to remove them from the newsletter if they are deleted.

[cwboaze]

would also love to have it where, a checkbox for signing up the newsletter, when they update their information if they uncheck it, it would unsubscribe them from NMS.

[tyman00]

cwboaze:  http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/feature_request/list/10

[cwboaze]

Thanks for that reference, it helped a lot.

I can do most of this myself. I just don't know the available commands,
used through NMS

like $nms->AddUser

what are the others. ? RemoveUser,EditUser, so on. and their required parameters if I know this, I can do the rest myself.

Appreciate your help!!

[cwboaze]

can anyone supply me with these functions.?? if not, I'll read through the module code, and find it myself.

[crosmuller]

Great thanks!

[Bilmartech]

Thanks for the Tip.. Been looking for this for a while...

Question.. Is there a way to do 1 of either of these:

1) Automatically have the box checked by default?
or
2) Simply automatically register them for the newsletter when they register since the people joining the site are all associates and the newsletter is simply included as a form of constant communication for the group?

[tyman00]

You could use jQuery to check the checkbox.

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$('.checkbox').attr('checked','checked')

[Bilmartech]

You could use jQuery to check the checkbox.

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$('.checkbox').attr('checked','checked')

Thanks for the response.. so in the example code that ted posted.. would I insert this portion right after the:

//Did they click the checkbox?
if ($feu->GetUserPropertyFull('mailing_list', $params['id']))

or would it go into the code in another place.

Thanks again for the help...

[Bilmartech]

Any help here.. I am lost right now trying to get this to auto check?

[crosmuller]

I put this in my template:

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</__body onload="
document.getElementById('m11515moduleform_2').m11515input_mailing_list.checked = true;
">

m11515moduleform_2 is the form id

m11515input_mailing_list is the checkbox name

Maybe not the best option but it works .