Hi, I am new to cform. But I have been using it on my site as a contact form. it works great.

I would like to now make it the interface to my dreamhost hosted announce list. I would like for the cform to collect the data and pass it to the dreamhost script without the cilient being aware of what is happening. (cform looks cooler than the stuff dreamhost has a default. ;-)) Is this possible?

Here is http://wiki.dreamhost.com/KB_/…..iling_List" target="_blank">the link to the dreamhost wiki about their announelist.

Here is the code they say to place in my page… I would assume that I would have to embed this into my cform somehow??? How…

<form method="post" action="http://scripts.dreamhost.com/a.....d_list.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="list" value="FromEmailAddress" />
<input type="hidden" name="domain" value="DomainName" />
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="SubscribedURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="unsuburl" value="UnsubscribedURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="alreadyonurl" value="AlreadyOnURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="notonurl" value="NotOnURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="invalidurl" value="InvalidURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="emailconfirmurl" value="EmailConfirmURL" />
<input type="hidden" name="emailit" value="1" />
Name: <input name="name" />
E-mail: <input name="email" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Join Our Announcement List" />
<input type="submit" name="unsub" value="Unsubscribe" />
</form>

I did manage to get the dreamhost part to work without adding cform to the loop… so I am at least that competent… But if someone can help me understand what I need to do that would be so appreeciated.

thanks in advance.

You can mimic any form, but since the form action target is a dreamhost script you may loose some of the cforms functionality, e.g. tracking of data (even for that there is a workaround via multi-page forms).

Simply

• add all the necessary fields to your form (hidden and otherwise)
• enable the custom ID/NAMES option (core cform option)
• provide the  IDS/NAMES per field (via [id:MYID])
• and set the alternative form action to
  http://scripts.dreamhost.com/a…..d_list.cgi

Great! thanks for the help, I got the submission to pass the variables to my announce list. So in short I got the sign-up to work.

Now I have a question about adding an unsubscrib feature.

Here is what I understand is going on: 

My dreamhost cgi is being passed a "name" variable when the submit type is chosen. (i.e. the user goes to my web page and puts their name and email address in and clicks the button "submit".)

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Join Our Announcement List" />
<input type="submit" name="unsub" value="Unsubscribe" />

So normally there are two input types of "submit" on a given page. (I thought I would just copy the cform and add a second form for adding an unsubscribe button. You can see it here. [http://thejourneyler.org/?page_id=71]) Now the cforms plugin does not seem to let me define a "name" value for a submit input type. So in cform form settings page for the plugin under Messages, Text and Button Label I can change the value of the submit function but I can not change the "name" variable. How do I do this?

The functional problem is that If I add a name to the unsubscribe form and click submit… it still submits it as if it was trying to subscribe.

Thanks again.