Subscribe Pages for Dummies

[stuartb23]

Please forgive my dumb ignorance... I've spent the last hour pouring over the forums and documentation, and I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

I have established the preferences in the 'Create multiple subscribe pages' section, yet I cannot work out how I then get phplist to generate the code for those pages?

I'm assuming phplist generates code that I paste into an HTML document and upload to my server via FTP, or is this all wrong?

I'm also confused as to how this corresponds to "URL where users can subscribe" in the Configuration setup.

If it's just a case of directing me to the right place, then you have my thanks and apologies for not finding it in the first place!

[H2B2]

I have established the preferences in the 'Create multiple subscribe pages' section, yet I cannot work out how I then get phplist to generate the code for those pages?

PHPlist will generate these subscribe pages each time a visitor clicks on a link that triggers this generation process, for instance:
- http://www.yoursite.com/lists/ will load all "activated" subscribe pages you configured.
- http://www.yourdomain.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1 will just load the subscribe page with ID-nr 1
So, just place one of these links on your site, and when a visitor clicks it, the subscribe pages will load...

I'm assuming phplist generates code that I paste into an HTML document and upload to my server via FTP, or is this all wrong?

Yes, that is possible too. This method will make it easier to customize the subscribe page to the look and feel of your site, or you can just place the subscribe form on an existing webpage. See Put a subscribe form on one of my pages for an example of how you could do this.

[stuartb23]

Thanks for your help, much appreciated!

[trevors]

Can I "plug in" some implicit attributes using multiple subscribe forms?

I'm thinking of having two links from my site:

1) Subscribe to keep informed
2) Subscribe and volunteer.

Subscribe form #2 would set my db attribute "Volunteer" to true.

(I realize I could put the attribute only on the second form and default it to checked. But I'd like to hide it. It's implicitly checked because the user chose that form.)

Thanks