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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: jonisolis on April 17, 2005, 11:28:59 am

Title: Any way to add a list sign up to a feedback/contact form?
Post by: jonisolis on April 17, 2005, 11:28:59 am

On many websites they have a contact page with a Feedback/Comment form. Is there any way to ask the person filling out the form if they would like to be signed up for your newsletter or newsletters?

View my present contact form here...

http://www.alove4horses.com/contact_artist.html

I would like to be able to add a check box or two for newsletter sign ups. Is this something that is possible?

Title: Any way to add a list sign up to a feedback/contact form?
Post by: vtm on May 11, 2005, 05:40:11 pm

I'm wondering if it's possible to do the opposite - how do I add a contact form (message text area) to the signup code.

So essentially, I think we're asking for the same functionality. e.g. options to include these fields:

Type in your message here:
Name:
Email:
Subscribe to a:
Subscribe to b:

The person would get an immediate response 'message received'/welcome and the listowner would get the correspondence for personal attention. Meantime, the subscription takes place as normal (if required) and the email gets added to a 'correspondents list'.

So, bottom line: how do I use the system to include a 'contact' form? (If I just add a form the 'message' gets lost.)

thanks
Laurie

Title: Any way to add a list sign up to a feedback/contact form?
Post by: DW on May 12, 2005, 03:57:44 pm

Quote from: "Joni"

On many websites they have a contact page with a Feedback/Comment form. Is there any way to ask the person filling out the form if they would like to be signed up for your newsletter or newsletters?

View my present contact form here...

http://www.alove4horses.com/contact_artist.html

I would like to be able to add a check box or two for newsletter sign ups. Is this something that is possible?

This could be done two ways:

1) Use a custom "LMinsert" function, such as available for PHP and Perl in the Customizations forum, to add users from your own code/script.

2) Using a little tricky JavaScript, you would first need to process the form data into the correct variables and then could submit the information to ListMail's signup.php in a new pop-up window for each list.

Quote from: "Laurie"

So, bottom line: how do I use the system to include a 'contact' form? (If I just add a form the 'message' gets lost.)

What about using a textarea to submit the data to a custom field? ie. in your form:

<textarea name=user1 rows=5 cols=60></textarea>

Enable "Notify when a user subscribes to this list" for each list and you should be sent the information via email.

Regards

Title: Any way to add a list sign up to a feedback/contact form?
Post by: vtm on May 13, 2005, 08:58:00 pm

Thank you Dean

Works a treat. I had quotes around the column width, and that was apparently killing it.

Laurie