Hello, I'm just starting to use the 1.5beta2 newsletter component. I'm really liking it so far. However, I am having trouble with the text email.

Whenever I send out the preview, the text email that I get includes all of the html tags in it, including the html tags for the table items that the core.php mambot creates for each article.

Is there a way to have the html tags stripped out for the text email version?

It is very hard to read otherwise.

Thanks and thanks for the great component.
Don

Adam,
thanks for your reply. When I set up the mailing, I enter the text in both the html and the text areas and it is basically something like:

Dear [NAME],

[CONTENT:1]

[CONTENT:2]

But when I do the preview, the html version looks great. But the text version includes a bunch of html tags such as:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="contentpaneopen"><tr><td class="contentheading">Background</td></tr><tr><td><h2>Experience That Counts</h2>

where "Background" is the article title and the <h2>Experience That Counts</h2> is pulled directly from the article.

I'm trying to have it just include the article title and then strip any html from the article itself.

Is that possible?

I think that I've figured out a solution. I don't know if it is the best one, but it looks like it works for me.

In the core.php mambot, in the function botContent I added a htmlspecialchars_decode() and strip_tags() functions around the AltBody (around line 368) so that it is:

$mailer->AltBody = htmlspecialchars_decode(strip_tags(preg_replace_callback($regex, 'botParseContent', $mailer->AltBody),'<a>'));

note that the htmlspecialchars_decode() only works with PHP5 >= 5.1.0 so leave that function off if you are on < PHP5.1

Then, to keep the title and the first line of the content from running together, in the function botParseContent somewhere around line 391 (the line with $row->title) and around line 402 (the line with _READ_MORE) I added a ."\n\n" to add a couple of carriage returns.

I included the '<a>' part for the strip_tags function so that at least some kind of link for Read More would show up. It does show the weblink but leaves the html for the <a href...> in there. Any suggestions from anyone on how to get around this would be greatly appreciated.