Co-Reg on submit page

[DelMarSurf]

I would like to co-reg my aweber account by allowing 2 submissions from the email field OR replace the phpld email field with my mailing account. I am a “code paster” at best – not a programmer. Any ideas?

I can do it with two submit buttons (stupid) or after submit provide an option to enter email again (less effective)

This IS a good idea!

[David]

It sounds like you will need an additional field added to the database, submission form, and admin edit form, so it will involve changing several files, and surely 1-2 hours of someone's time. I'm not sure what "aweber" means.

[DelMarSurf]

Howdy! Thing always sound so easy until....

aweber.com is an autoresponder mailing system. You (can) create the email field on page via .js file - so no extra db, fields, etc actually need to be created. The key would be to get one submit action to perform to actions - one, post the data for the submission, two, pass the email address to the aweber system. The browser could return the regular submission complete function, and the aweber system could launch a second window confirming subscription to the email system.

Of course my idea is to get all submissions into my email system for future marketing. I would turn off the phpld confirmation, and have the email system. Instant list!

Am I over thinking this?

[anon]

i dont know if you are overthinking, but i did just submit a few to your directory :D

please don't spam me, as the term 'future marketing' reminds me of reselling email lists.

Rob

[David]

I see what you are saying. You could also do periodic exports of csv files from phpmyadmin, and then import into your aweber account. The js file might work too.

[DelMarSurf]

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Hello Mod – Thank you for submitting. Just to clarify, I actually want to push people into my email system to FIGHT SPAM. I don’t want to spam, I F’n hate spammers. The mailing list program is an opt-in system that allows receivers to click and “opt-out” at any time. The system meets “can-spam” compliance standards.

In reality, using the emails gathered from submissions to do anything other than confirm submission would be considered spamming, even if you have some sneaky hidden TOS that says you can email all you want. That’s actually the law – not that it is really enforced.

If you did not sign up for the email program on my site after submitting, then you will only receive one further email.

Best Regards, DEL

[DelMarSurf]

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Hi David – that is absolutely possible and easy. But it is after the fact. When you add an email (even as the list owner) the system requires that the email receiver “confirm subscription” on that channel to receive email.

If you capture it (the email addy) at the time of submission, you have a list member. If you send out the solicitation after the fact, your conversion sucks. And, technically speaking, you are guilty of spamming, asking people to join your list.

[kirkward]

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Sorry to be so late in joining this thread ... but I am a new user and was was searching the forum to see if anyone had a method for subscribing people to an autoresponder when they submitted a link.

If I were to add this functionality in PHP, I would use the mail() function in or with the same routine that adds the information to the database.

It is rather simple in PHP, but I know absolutely nothing about Smarty templates. Can anyone suggest how and where to add this function?

Thanks,
Kirk

[James]

IF your using aweber I will help it is easy.