Tim Plumb’s PHP Feedback Form Action sounds really great. I had previously downloaded that action, but don’t know how to use it. I reuploaded the old page with the Radio (thanks!) buttons and applied the PHP Feedback Form action to the grouped form. I added in my info in the actions palette. I tested it out live on the web, but got an error page from Tripod (my host). They don’t support PHP.
I really appreciate your help. Although I don’t want to advertise my email address to everyone I don’t know if I have another way. The form with the checkboxes is working and I don’t know what else to do. Thanks for your help.
The form with the checkboxes is working and I don’t know what else to do.
Change hosting provider!
But seriously this is a major deficiency if they do not support PHP and there are many providers that do for only a few dollars a year.
You may not think that it is a big issue just now but there may well come a time when you need PHP and/or a MySql Database and if the don’t have one they won’t have the other.
I trust that you are right. I’ll do my research and find a new provider. If you have any suggestions I’d be happy to hear them.
I can live with the Mailing List page working without a search box for the moment, but now I have another problem. I’m ready to pull my hair out! I was adding the info to the paypal buttons on my listing pages and found out that they don’t work. I click add to cart and it goes to the results page. So the Simple Site Search is overriding my Paypal buttons. I added No Form action to one of the pages and was able to get the Paypal button to work, but then the search box doesn’t work anymore. I really don’t want to delete the search boxes off all my listing pages.
How do I separate the Paypal buttons from the Simple Site Search action?
Forgive me posting here, but I’ve been searching for instructions to create a simple mailing list form. Can you give me some initial guidance. Feeling a bit dumb…
Thank you!
While it is fairly straightforward to create a form handler that stores your visitor’s submissions in a database or another data store, mailing lists are a very special breed. Owing to the fact that SPAM mail dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication by several orders of magnitude, most civilized countries have put in place stern laws regarding how and where an e-mail address may be harvested and how it must be handled. In the US, there’s the CAN/SPAM Act (federal law), and there are similar measures in the UK and the EU. Running afoul of these rules gets you (if caught and prosecuted) a whopping fine. That’s not to say that it isn’t done all the time – to my enduring dissatisfaction – but you should take the basic steps to avoid being a part of the problem.
Long story short, go to MailChimp, MyEmma, or Campaign Monitor (probably others – it’s a big tent) and sign up for a cheap or free account (MailChimp is free for a ridiculous number of messages sent per month). Use the snippet of HTML code they give you to inject their form into your page. It’s automatic, it follows the law, and it looks nice. Even my ActionsForge/Next pledge form is powered by MailChimp: http://actionsforge.com/next And believe me – I know how to write a form handler.
Walter
On Sep 30, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Graz wrote:
Forgive me posting here, but I’ve been searching for instructions to create a simple mailing list form. Can you give me some initial guidance. Feeling a bit dumb…
Thank you!