Integrate email field only into existing yahoo store sidebar

larryhir · Jul 9, 2009

Currently had a sidebar on this site: exertools.com, and wanted to know if possible to integrate the form subscribe_single_fixed.php so it would just have an email entry and submit.

My rtml programer reworked the subscribe_single_fixed.php script for this only and successfully did get it to work in an iframe on the sidebar of a yahoo site, but we ran into some issues.

In order to get an appropriate success message formatted within the same frame we added js script to mlm.php to redirect a success message like this:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>

This caused the MBM program to not run mlm.php and access remote list.

Here's the subscribe_single_fixed.php edit he came up with that dos work in an iframe. The issue that remains is getting a custom redirect success. With a little effort I guess we could rework the subscribe_single_fixed.php to do it. But then I need to understand how to handle unsubscribe links or general subscription when those are not done not though the sidebar. I am guessing do those the multiple list script? I haven't tested how that would work, but it may be fine that way. Any thoughts?

Here's the edit to the subscribe_single_fixed.php that works in an iframe:

<?php

if ( isset( $_REQUEST['cmd'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['cmd'] ) ) { $cmd = $_REQUEST['cmd']; }
if ( isset( $_REQUEST['email'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['email'] ) ) { $email = $_REQUEST['email']; }
if ( isset( $_REQUEST['list'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['list'] ) ) { $list = $_REQUEST['list']; }

if ( isset( $_REQUEST['submit'] ) ) {
$errors = array();
if ( $email == "" ) { $errors[] = "Enter your email address in the email address text box"; $wrong['email'] = TRUE; }
if ( $email !== "" && ( stristr( $email, "." ) == FALSE || stristr( $email, "@" ) == FALSE ) ) { $errors[] = "The e-mail address you have entered is not valid"; $wrong['email'] = TRUE; }
if ( count( $errors ) == 0 ) {
$url = "../mlm.php";
$url .= "?cmd=$cmd&list=$list&email=$email&firstname=$firstname&lastname=$lastname";
header("Location: $url");
}
}

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive" />
<title>Mailing List Subscription - Exertools.com</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body>
<div id="exertools-newsletter">
<form id="FormName" action="subscribe_single_fixed.php" method="get" name="FormName">
<input type="text" name="email" <?php echo " value=\"$email\""; ?> onfocus="clearMe(this)" onblur="if(this.value=='') {this.value='enter email address';}" class="nletter" />
<div style="display:none; visibility:hidden;">
<input type="hidden" name="list" value="Specials and News List" />
<input type="radio" name="cmd" value="subscribe" <?php if ( $cmd == "" || $cmd == "subscribe" ) { echo "checked=\"checked\""; } ?> />
<font size="2" face="Arial"> Subscribe
<input type="radio" name="cmd" value="unsubscribe" <?php if ( $cmd == "unsubscribe" ) { echo "checked=\"checked\""; } ?> />
Unsubscribe</font></div>
<input type="image" name="submit" value="Submit" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/exertools/go2.gif" style="margin-bottom:-5px;" />
<br />Get the latest on new products <br /> special and accessories. <br /> <a href="http://www.exertools.com/privacypolicy.html">Privacy Policy</a>
</form>
</div>
<?php

// --- ERROR CHECKING ---

if ( isset( $_REQUEST['submit'] ) ) {
if ( count( $errors ) > 0) {
echo "<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\">";
echo "<tr bgcolor=\"#ff0000\" height=\"22\">";
echo "<td height=\"22\">";
echo "<div align=\"center\">";
echo "<font color=\"white\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Sorry but we can't process your request</b></font></div>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
echo "<font size=\"-1\" color=\"red\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"\>";
echo "<b/>Please fix the following issues</b/><br />";
for($i=0; $i<count($errors); $i++){
echo $errors[$i]."<br />";
}
} else if ( count( $successes ) > 0) {
echo "<font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"\>";
echo "<b/>Your request has been processed successfully:</b/><br />";
for($i=0; $i<count($successes); $i++){
echo $successes[$i]."<br />";
}
}
}

?>
</body>
</html>

Note that styles are particular for our layout. The iframe call looked like this:
<iframe src="http://site.exertools.com/mlm/html/subscribe_single_fixed.php" name="newsletter" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" align="left" height = "78px" width = "197px" style="margin:0; padding:0;"></iframe>

Until we figure out a way to make this all work we are using a straight text link though to the original script.

But this may be useful for development. I think most subscription services offer sidebar inclusion code which would be a great feature for future release.

stanbusk · Jul 10, 2009

Thanks for sharing this trick.

almedajohnson · Sep 16, 2010

Re: Integrate email field only into existing yahoo store sid

Thanks for sharing the important source code. That was really helpful. Do you have any share for yahoo store redesigning??

Integrate email field only into existing yahoo store sidebar

larryhir

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stanbusk

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