The plugin generates a page that displays a campaign email customised with subscriber and phplist placeholders, and link tracking. A placeholder, [VIEWBROWSER], is included in a campaign and is replaced by a link to the page when the email is created by phplist. Alternatively the placeholder [VIEWBROWSERURL] can be used for the URL of the page.
The plugin can also generate an anonymous page, where subscriber placeholders are removed.
It also provides an archive page that lists all emails sent to a subscriber. That page is accessed by including a placeholder, [ARCHIVE] or [ARCHIVEURL], in a campaign email.
Requires phplist release 3.3.0 or later and php version 7 or later.
This plugin requires the Common Plugin v3.29.0 or later to be installed, and will not work without that. phplist now includes Common Plugin so you should only need to enable it on the Manage Plugins page.
Requires the XSL extension to be included in php. You can verify this through phpinfo.
Install on the Plugins page (menu Config > Manage Plugins) using the package URL https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-viewbrowser/archive/master.zip.
Then click the button to enable the plugin.
For guidance on using the plugin see the plugin's page within the phplist documentation site https://resources.phplist.com/plugin/viewinbrowser
Please raise any questions or problems in the user forum https://discuss.phplist.org/.
This plugin is free but if you install and find it useful then a donation to support further development is greatly appreciated.
version Description
2.12.0+20230928 Add config option to open links in new browser window
2.11.11+20230906 Use publicUrl() function
2.11.10+20230814 Use function to get the public URL
2.11.9+20230630 Log libxml parse errors
2.11.8+20230412 Remove leading and trailing whitespace from link URLs to avoid them being % encoded
2.11.7+20230412 Remove surrounding white space from image URLs
2.11.6+20221231 Remove dynamic property to avoid php 8 deprecation
2.11.5+20220204 Small internal changes
2.11.4+20200609 Change the required version of phplist to 3.3
2.11.3+20200524 Allow a superadmin to view any campaign.
2.11.2+20200523 Add the date placeholder plugin to the list of supported plugins
2.11.1+20200519 Replace USERID placeholder as a synonym for UNIQID
2.11.0+20200417 Use core phplist functions to format dates.
2.10.4+20191108 Remove support for phplist versions prior to 3.0.7
2.10.3+20190907 Restrict downloading attachments to subscribers only
2.10.2+20190604 Replace CONTACT and CONTACTURL placeholders
2.10.1+20181122 Change to the messages that a subscriber can view
2.10.0+20181023 Provide anonymous archive of emails sent to a list
2.9.6+20181015 German translation
2.9.5+20181015 Minor bug fix
2.9.4+20180918 Remove urls for sensitive placeholders for an anonymous page
2.9.3+20180419 Add description for the Plugins page
2.9.2+20180207 Add Spanish translation
2.9.1+20171220 Update dependency on Common Plugin
2.9.0+20171218 Use paging on the archive pages
2.8.0+20171206 Rework layout of campaign archive
2.7.1+20171120 Added Dutch translations
2.7.0+20171102 Add archive page and placeholders
2.6.0+20170604 Use dependency injection container
2.5.1+20170331 Remove placeholders when message is forwarded
2.5.0+20170204 Changes to link tracking for phplist 3.3.0
2.4.5+20160714 Convert text footer to html
2.4.4+20160120 Replace LOGO only for compatible versions of phplist
2.4.3+20151215 Correction for LOGO placeholder
2.4.2+20151214 Support LOGO placeholder
2.4.1+20151121 Update dependencies
2.4.0+20151119 Integration with other plugins
2.3.0+20151106 Suppress VIEWBROWSER link
Minor bug fixes
2.2.0+20151018 Internal changes to use namespaced classes
2.1.3+20150916 Display [CONTENT] when used by Content Areas plugin
2.1.2+20150907 Fix problem introduced with previous change
2.1.1+20150906 Fix problem where default settings are not used
2.1.0+20150819 Display attachments with download links
2.0.1+20150817 Fix backslashes being displayed
2.0.0+20150815 Updated dependencies
2015-07-29 Allow additional attributes on the link <a> element
2015-06-25 Internal changes
2015-03-23 Change to autoload approach
2015-02-06 Use & as arg separator for http_build_query()
2014-11-18 Allow text to be translated
2014-10-14 Provide anonymous page, support sending campaign from a webpage
2014-10-02 Keep the original document type
2014-09-18 Handle embedded template images, allow other plugins to transform the email
2014-08-16 The view page is now a plugin public page for phplist 3.0.7
2014-08-09 Test for xsl extension being installed
2014-05-05 Added fromemail placeholder
2014-04-17 An email is now always personalised
2014-04-14 Support for click tracking and further placeholders
2014-04-12 Support for user tracking
2014-04-09 Added to GitHub