Email Sign-up form

Marc

I've successfully created a sign-up form for uses to input their email address and get on the mailing list using the API.

How do I get Convio to send back an email to confirm that email address is valid and allow for proper opt-in specifications. Currently this form creates a new record in C360 regardless.

<form method="post" class="request" action="https://secure3.convio.net/MYSITE/site/CRConsAPI">

<input type="hidden" name="api_key" id="APIKEY" value="APIKEY">

<input type="hidden" name="v" id="v" value="1.0">

<input type="hidden" name="method" id="method" value="create">

<input type="hidden" name="add_group_ids" value="8911">

<input type="hidden" name="add_interest_ids" value="1983">

<input type="hidden" name="success_redirect" value="http://mysite.com/contact/email_thanks">

<input type="hidden" name="error_redirect" value="http://mysite.com/contact/email_error">



<input name=" primary_email" type="text">

<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit">



</form>

Alison McCauley

Not sure if you figured this out already, but just in case, or just in case someone else is wondering...

I think you can do what you're describing by adding the parameter "no_welcome" and setting its value to "false" -- that's if I'm correctly understanding the explanation in the Convio Open API Reference document, page 85. So, you'd have one more hidden field in your form, i.e.

<input id="no_welcome" name="no_welcome" type="hidden" value="false" />

Then, as long as your site uses "welcome autoresponders," new users signing up with this form should receive a welcome email.

(Anyone know if this is at all true??)