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Hi Guys,

I’m in discussions with a client that would like to send out a monthly newsletter containing content from a weblog. The content is a list of used cars. The client will be adding cars on a regular basis. In an ideal world, the client would like to set a status of ‘hot’ (or something similar) when adding a car, then at the end of each month, send out an email with an opening welcome message followed by a list of all of the cars marked as ‘hot’ to a mailing list.

Is this achievable? I’ve produced a number of sites for various agencies using EE but this is the first time this functionality has been requested.

I’ve taken a quick look at the Entry Mailing extension but as far as I can tell, I won’t give my client the opportunity to choose which entries to mail (via status or something similar) and when.

Has anyone implemented a similar function to this? and if so, would you be kind enough to point me in the right direction.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers,

Gary 😊

Well, you could achieve at least something in that direction with Entry Mailing.

Create a weblog for the newsletters. Whenever you want to send one start a new entry there or use an existing one and just re-mail it.

Then use a regular template in which you pull the data you need. If you want to employ data not connected to the entry used for the mailing be sure to use dynamic=“off” in the weblog:entries:tag.

{!-- This would use data of the entry used to initiate the mailing //--}
{exp:weblog:entries}
{text}
{more}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

{!-- This can pull any kind of data defined by you //--}
<ul>
{exp:weblog:entries dynamic="off" weblog="cars" status="hot"}
<li>{title}</li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>

I hope that was comprehensible…

Ah! Superb.

I had noticed that you can assign a regular template to each Entry Mailing, but hadn’t considered creating a new section devoted to the newsletters and then assigning my template to that. Ha! It’s obvious now that you mention it. Sorry… had a long day yesterday 😉

Nice one!

G.