selective action on submit?

[JohnB]

Hi Russell,

I've got the forms all working fine now but I would like to know if there's a way where the web user can check a box on a form if they wanted to be added to a mailing list in addition to submitting their data. If they check the box the form data will be submitted and an e-mail will be sent out to my Aweber account to subscribe them to a mailing list. The only data I would need to send to aweber would be firstname and e-mail at this stage (maybe more later). If the user does not check the box then the form data would only be sent

Have you got any ideas how this may be achieved?

Thanks JohnB

[russellr]

Hi,

You're starting to need to do programming.

If you want it in real-time, then you will indeed need to some programming (though I can think of a couple of new features in FormMail that would do what you want).

Alternatively, you could load up your CSV file into an Access database (or something), select the people who have said "yes" and then sent that list to the subscription process.

[JohnB]

hehe, I was just seeing if your formmail program already had this feature or not. Its a feature that is beyond most form programs anyway. but thought I'd ask to be on the safe side.

Thanks for your reply

regards,

JohnB

[russellr]

Hi,

I think what we'd do is provide a feature that combines recipients with templates.

So, something like this:

<input type="hidden" name="special_recipients" value="someone_AT_yourdomain.com=someonestemplate.txt,
subscriptioncontrol_AT_yourdomain.com=subscriptiontemplate.txt" />

The template would then provide the right formatting and correct field list for the email being sent to the special email addresses.

Sounds pretty useful, but.....