Stripping off Mailchimp Footer

Resolved SunflowerSchool
(@sunflowerschool)

8 years, 6 months ago

Hi

Sorry for the length, I am trying to provide all the details.
Postie v1.7.12
Preferred text type= HTML

Goal is to strip off the Mailchimp footer which is a centered separate table to the message part.
Basically, the message ends and all HTML tags are closed and the next thing is <center>

Postie ignores <center> as the message end text even though it is correctly read by the program. (from debug: [message_end] => <center>)

The problem is, that I cannot trigger the stripping based on something else in the table because then it leaves the center tag unclosed.

This then goes on to shift the footer into the center like this http://scarborough.org.za/perfect-hideaways-movie-night-under-the-stars-at-penhill-farm-this-weekend/

it should look like this http://scarborough.org.za/scarboroughmail-thu-24-sep-2015/

but NEVER like http://scarborough.org.za/scarboroughmail-sun-27-sep-2015/

Perhaps if there was an option to strip everything between two strings that would help.

Or, if it had an option to find the end string and then strip from n characters before that string.

[BTW: In a previous version of Postie, end strings with spaces were not correctly evaluated. I have not tested with the latest versions]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/

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Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

8 years, 6 months ago

Removing the Mailchimp footer and retaining the HTML structure is something you’d need to do through a custom addon. See http://postieplugin.com/extending/

Thread Starter SunflowerSchool
(@sunflowerschool)

8 years, 6 months ago

Hi

Thanks for the response. Problem is that there are no examples. I am looking in the postie-functions.php and I see the Filter_End function but since PHP is a mystery to me, I am not sure where to start.

Could you throw some examples my way?

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

8 years, 6 months ago

What you are asking for is non-trivial and unlikely to be successful via cut and paste coding. You need to consider finding someone who knows PHP to assist you.

Thread Starter SunflowerSchool
(@sunflowerschool)

8 years, 6 months ago

Hi Wayne
Thanks for taking time to respond. Postie is a wonderful plugin.
All I really need help with is getting Postie to read my code at the right time. It must either strip the footer when reading the mail or it must strip the footer when creating the post.

I don’t know how to hook into either of those events or create a filter.

If you have to give me a pointer I would appreciate that. If not, I do understand that this is not a priority.

The code for stripping off the footer is easy enough.
<?php
$str = <<<EOD
in here I place the full email
spanning as many
lines as it
needs
EOD;
echo (strstr ($str, “<center>”, true)); //* gives back everything before “<center>”

I use the heredoc method to quote the string as it can have many ‘ and ” and I don’t want to evaluate them.

The problem is, I can’t find the message as string at any point. It seems to be an object most of the time.
Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

8 years, 6 months ago
This is the filter you want: http://postieplugin.com/postie_post_before/

There is an example on the page. The $post variable is an array with the contents in $post[‘post_content’]. You need to do something like:
```
add_filter('postie_post_before', 'my_postie_post_before');

function my_postie_post_before($post) {
    $post['post_content'] = mymagicfunctiontoremovethefooter($post['post_content']);
    return $post;
}
```

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