Hello, I can't seem to find out how to put a redirect link on the page that confirms the persons email sign up.

Thanks for your help.

Chris

Hi Chris,

In the custom messages for the mailing list you're dealing with you'll see a welcome page.  Edit that and insert the redirect link- you'll see the redirect link and how it works towards the bottom of the page.

Scot

Hey Scot, Thank you I found how to customize, but when I did, Im now getting an error. Here's what I have in the Custom message box.
[html]
[body]
Thank you %first_name%, your email, %email%, has been added to the %mailing_list% mailing list.%redirect%http://www.lowandmean.com/honda-products.php%
[/body]
[/html]

Did I do this right?

Chris

Hi Chris,

Try using the redirect by itself.  The other stuff isn't displayed because the redirect happens immediately.

Scot

Scot, are you saying just put this link in and remove the other code?
Like below:
%redirect%http://www.lowandmean.com/honda-products.php%

Chris

That doesn't seem to work. Any chance you could give me the exact code that should go in the box?

Chris

Hi Chris,

Put a ? after the .php like this:

%redirect%http://www.lowandmean.com/honda-products.php?%

The script adds all of the subscription info to the URL, so without the ? it can confuse the browser.  I'll add some kind of automatic check for the next update.

Thank you that worked, but now Im worried the customer will not know if he signed up or not. So I kinda like seeing some sort of confirmation page, but if I have a confirmation page. I need a link back to the my website. Any ideas?

Thanks again Scot, by the way I love your mailing list!
Chris

Hi,

Well, it's a PHP page so if you script at all, you could check for one of the variables that gets sent (see the url after redirect) and put up a thank you message or something.

Or, you could send a welcome message via email (it's part of the custom message area for the welcome message) that they would get.

The most common way this is done when using a redirect is to create a thankyou.html (or .php in your case) page that mirrors the page they are going to except it has a "thanks for subscribing" message at the top.

Scot