I need some help with a signup form...

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Ok well I have a new website in development and the coder is having trouble with the signup form.

So when a user signs up to create an account it will ask for email, username, and password. So the username and password is stored in a database so they can log in and what not. I want to have their email address sent to my opt-in list though.

The programmer doesn't know how to do it, and of course I don't or I wouldn't be hiring a programmer lol.

I'm sure it's easily done, because I see it done on tons of websites.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 


Create an account with either of aweber or Mailchimp and they give you plenty of integration options that you can utilize.
 
Apricot said:
Create an account with either of aweber or Mailchimp and they give you plenty of integration options that you can utilize.
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Yes I can just make a mailchimp form then embed it in my site, but that doesn't take care of what I want. All that does is sign them up for my list. It doesn't create a username and password for them on my website.
 
It sounds like there need to be 2 steps to your form on the back-end, the first one is submitting the information to your database, and the second is submitting the information directly to MailChimp's system. The best way to do this directly would be via the MailChimp API.

Your programmer needs to have experience with APIs to do this. Here's the MailChimp API documentation:
MailChimp API v1.3 Overview

Here's the API method they'll need to use to add a user to your list:
MailChimp API v1.3 - listBatchSubscribe() method

Hope this helps.
 
For Mailchimp

[high=php]
$subid = "test";
$first_name = "hurr";
$last_name = "durr";
$email = "yourr@testemail.com";
$list_id = "yourlistid";
$chimp_api_key = "yourchimpapikey";

// Aggregate variables to form POST

$source = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

$chimp_link_pre = "http://us1.api.mailchimp.com/1.2/?method=listSubscribe"
."&apikey=".$chimp_api_key
."&id=".$list_id
."&email_address=".$email
."&merge_vars[FNAME]=".$first_name
."&merge_vars[LNAME]=".$last_name
."&merge_vars[SUBID]=".$subid
."&output=json";

$chimp_link = str_replace(' ', '%20', $chimp_link_pre);

/* end path aggregation */


######################CURL to mailchimp
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $chimp_link_pre);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
//ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
//ob_end_clean();

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
[/high]

~ it's a little messy since I decided to use a different solution before integrating it into a live campaign.

Lol while writing this reply I read your last post. Just structure the page you POST to from the sign-up page to take care of the username/pw creation while adding them to the list.
 
I would have them fill in their information, then on the next page have the email information sent to aweber, and then just insert the user name / password / email into the database. it's important to store the email too in case they lose their password.

aweber gives you a form code that you can use to put the sign up sheet on your website, style it to match the rest of your design, and use ajax to send it off to aweber while your website handles the real registration.

Let me know if you have any more specific questions, or if I can help in any way.

good luck!
 
It's not that hard. The script that stores the account information into the database on your site would execute, then before you exit the script, have it send the variable storing the E-mail address to MailChimp via their API.

MailChimp API

It's very basic stuff.
 
ZimmyZim said:
your programmer dont know shit
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Yeah kind of what I gathered once he told me that he didn't know how to do this. It's a dude from freelancer, up until this his work seemed good though.

Thanks for the info so far guys. And actually, would anyone like to implement this on my site for me? Would pay of course. Hit me up with a PM.
 
I just briefly scanned the post but if you need a successful sign up code use JPMaster77's login code. The website where you can find the files and tutorials for your incredible programmer is http://www.evolt.org/node/60384


Good Luck with this programmer and introduce him to google, it helps alot :)
 
My suggestion is to go ahead and use JPMaster77's log in script. It's all PHP and is very easy to impliment in any project. Here are some of the
features:

Better Security - Passwords are not stored in cookies, randomly generated ids take their place.
Member Levels - Now users can be differentiated by what level they are (user, admin, etc.)
Admin Center - As an admin, you have full control over registered users. You can view user info, upgrade/demote user levels, delete users, delete inactive users, and ban users.
Visitor Tracking - You can now tell how many guests and users are actively viewing your site, and who those users are. You also know how many total members your site has.
Account Info - Users can now view their own information, and edit it as well. They can also see the information of other users.
Form Helper - No more ugly error pages! Now users are redirected to the form they filled out and the errors that have occurred are displayed.
Forgot Password - Users who forget their password can have a new one generated for them and sent to their email address.
Email - Now emails can be sent to newly registered users.
Miscellaneous - Much better code design, smooth page transitions, and MORE!

Visit the site http://www.evolt.org/node/60384 for set up information.
 
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