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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: boundless on September 21, 2005, 04:47:11 am

Title: Signup via e-mail - More info than just name and email?
Post by: boundless on September 21, 2005, 04:47:11 am

Dean,

I'm wondering if there is a way to send information via an email signup other than just email address and name info. This would be done via a script that is generated when someone signs up as an affiliate for our program, and this script lives on a server other than the listmail server - so I can't use the LMInsert.pl include like I was doing before.

I need to send name, email, and affiliate ID, all of which is being posted to a form. I can send an email with the perl script that contains this information, but need to know if there is a way for listmail to "parse" this information and put it in the right place in the database.

Bob

Title: Signup via e-mail - More info than just name and email?
Post by: DW on September 25, 2005, 12:48:48 pm

Bob,

I apologize for the delay - I was out of town for a couple days.

While this wasn't previously possible I have just implemented a new feature into signup-listX.cgi.  The subject field data can now be placed into the custom field of your choice. Will this help? :)

Download the new ListMail ZIP file and use the signup-list1.cgi script from it.  Be sure to modify the ListMail URL in the script, and also uncomment the line that says:

# $parse_subj = 1;

So it looks like this:

$parse_subj = 1;

You may also edit this variable to change the custom field the data is inserted to:

$parse_subj_field = 'user1';

Note: Enabling this feature requires the Perl module "URI::Escape" be installed.  It should already be...

Regards