Question

I want to add two custom fields for newsletter subscriber at which date customer subscribed and its ip address:
1) I had added two columns in ‘newsletter_subscriber’ table.
How this can be achieved?

In the file app/code/core/Mage/Newsletter/Model/Subscriber.php
I found the the functions like:

$this->setSubscriberEmail($email);
$this->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
$this->setCustomerId(0); 

But i did not found its code.
I think I also save data like that but how it will be possible ? where I have to define and declare code for the function like $this->seSubscriptionDate();

And how to display in Admin panel under Newsletter->Newsletter Subscriber ?

Answer 1

I had not find the solution or help from any person.
I bang my head and find the solution its very simple hope in future may some one’s time save by this post:
1) Add columns in the table “newsletter_subscriber” say in my case “subscription_date” and “sub_ip_address”
2) Add following two lines in the file @ two places
app\code\core\Mage\Newsletter\Model\Subscriber.php

**$this->setSubscriptionDate(date("d-m-Y"));
**$this->setSubIpAddress($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

One place: in the function: public function subscribe($email)
Before: $this->save();
Second place: in the function: public function subscribeCustomer($customer)
Before: $this->save();
Now data will be added in the table
Now to show in admin panel
1) Open the file app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Newsletter\Subscriber\Grid.php
Just add two required columns in it like

$this->addColumn('subscription_date', array(
            'header'    => Mage::helper('newsletter')->__('Subscription Date'),
            'index'     => 'subscription_date',
            'default'   =>    '----'
        ));

        $this->addColumn('sub_ip_address', array(
            'header'    => Mage::helper('newsletter')->__('IP Address'),
            'index'     => 'sub_ip_address',
            'default'   =>    '----'
        ));

Now finish.
** This is the point where I spent my time and at the end I added this function on hit and trieal basis but it works.
Someone from Core magento team plz explain why this {setSubscriptionDate()}function work ? I had not declared anybody of this function.
It seems it shows intellisense to detect table field?