CMS Made Simple: get the Newsletter Made Simple (NMS) module to send out attachments

We have a customer who sends out newsletters as an PDF attachment. NMS is capable of sending these attachments within the module itselve, but only from the root. In this case we would like to use the /uploads/pdf folder.

My workaround for the attachment dir bug;

Open /modules/CGExtensions/CGExtensions.module.php:

locate the function ‘CreateFileDropdown’ and change the code to:
* A convenience function to create a file dropdown
*/
function CreateFileDropdown($id,$name,$selectedfile=”,$dir = ”,$extensions =
”,$allownone = ”,$allowmultiple = false,$size = 3)
{
$config = cmsms()->GetConfig();

if( startswith( $dir, ‘.’ ) ) $dir = ”;
if( $dir == ” ) $dir = $config[‘image_uploads_path’];
if( !is_dir($dir) ) $dir = cms_join_path($config[‘uploads_path’],$dir);

if( $extensions == ” ) $extensions =
$this->GetPreference(‘fileextensions’,”);

$tmp = cge_dir::get_file_list($dir,$extensions);
$tmp2 = array();
if( !empty($allownone) ) $tmp2[$this->Lang(‘none’)] = ”;
$filelist = array_merge($tmp2,$tmp);

if( $allowmultiple ) {
if( !endswith($name,'[]’) ) $name .= ‘[]’;
return $this->CreateInputSelectList($id,$name,$filelist,array(),$size);
}
return $this->CreateInputDropdown($id,$name,$filelist,-1,$selectedfile);
}

In /modules/NMS/action.compose.message.php; locate the string ‘case:
‘attachment” and replace complete section with:

case ‘attachment’:
// a file selector dropdown?
$content = ”;
if( isset($blockvalues[$safe_name]) ) {
$content = $blockvalues[$safe_name];
}
if( isset($params[$obj->name]) ) {
$content = trim($params[$obj->name]);
}
//$cgextensions = $this->GetModuleInstance(‘CGExtensions’);
//$obj->control =
$cgextensions->CreateFileDropdown($id,$obj->name,$content,”,”,1);
$dir = ”;
if( isset($keyval[‘dir’]) ) {
$dir = $keyval[‘dir’];
$obj->dir = $dir;
}
$cgextensions = $this->GetModuleInstance(‘CGExtensions’);
$obj->control =
$cgextensions->CreateFileDropdown($id,$obj->name,$content,$dir,”,1);

break;

Now the dir function works, only relative to the /uploads folder, but works
nevertheless. Make sure in the CGExtensions module that the extension is allowed
to be uploaded/used.

And to make it work with sending the newsletter don’t forget the following in /modules/NMS/NMS.modules.php locate the code:

foreach( $this->attached_files as $onefile ) {
echo $onefile;
$fn = cms_join_path($config[‘uploads_path’],$onefile);
$mailer->AddAttachment($fn,$onefile);
}

I’ve just manually changed the path to the path i need, for example:

foreach( $this->attached_files as $onefile ) {
echo $onefile;
$fn = cms_join_path($config[‘uploads_path’].’/PDF’,$onefile);
$mailer->AddAttachment($fn,$onefile);
}