Newsletter that REALLY works for 4.2

[LinkBliss_com]

Hi Chris,

Software works great, and I think the little newsletter.css looks decent enough.

However there's an issue when I send to a Gmail account -- it doesn't render the CSS.

Any ideas or is there a trick to make Google recognize the css?

Maybe I can forward the emails or send you screenshots to explain better, but basically when I send to my Gmail account, there is no pretty formatting, it is all just plain.

Thanks!
Eric

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I played around with this and partially got it to work... looks a little different from the way it's supposed to, but not too far off. I added this to functions, just above where it says "Prepare Test Email:

  //convert css to inline
  require_once('newsletter/CssToInlineStyles.php');

  // create instance
  $cssToInlineStyles = new CssToInlineStyles();
  $cssToInlineStyles->setHTML($message);
  $cssToInlineStyles->setCSS($css);
  $message = $cssToInlineStyles->convert();

  // Prepare Test Email

You can Google CssToInlineStyles, it's on Github.

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I also put this in newsletter_sendemails.php, not really sure this will work, eek.

         //convert css to inline
         require_once('newsletter/CssToInlineStyles.php');

         // create instance
         $cssToInlineStyles = new CssToInlineStyles();
         $cssToInlineStyles->setHTML($bodytext);
         $cssToInlineStyles->setCSS($css);
         $bodytext = $cssToInlineStyles->convert();

         $mail->Body = $bodytext;

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Oh no wait, newsletter_sendemails.php doesn't have $css, so I put this in newsletter_prepare.php

         //convert css to inline
         require_once('newsletter/CssToInlineStyles.php');

         // create instance
         $cssToInlineStyles = new CssToInlineStyles();
         $cssToInlineStyles->setHTML($message);
         $cssToInlineStyles->setCSS($css);
         $message = $cssToInlineStyles->convert();

         $vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."newsletter_newsletters SET subject='$subject', message='$message', adsmessage='$adsmessage', ready='$ready', version='$version' WHERE id=$newsletterid");

[Christos Teriakis]

Well I never thought that GMail needs special css. Thank you for pointing me there I'll check it.

Chris

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by LinkBliss_com

Any ideas or is there a trick to make Google recognize the css?

Maybe add an absolute link to the css file in the header of the newsletter?

[BirdOPrey5]

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