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Integrate Your Autoresponder With cURL
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If you have a membership system, blog or e-learning application, you most likely want to put your new sign-ups into some type of autoresponder system at the same time. However, you really don’t want to make them sign up twice - once for your application, and once for the autoresponder. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could auto-subscribe your new members to your mailing list application automatically?
If you use Aweber, or a similar service, you can just have your membership system shoot an email to yourListName@aweber.com - your recipient will automatically receive an opt-in verification message from Aweber. Many 3rd party services are integrated with Aweber, like E-Junkie - you can configure the E-Junkie cart to prompt Aweber to send a verification message automatically.
What if your autoresponder script does not support subscribe by email? Whether you run your own autoresponder script or use a hosted solution, is there a way to easily integrate an autoresponder script with another type of system? Thankfully, the answer is ‘Yes’ - with a little PHP scripting….
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This 1000-word post shows you step by step how to integrate your autoresponder with any type of PHP application with some PHP scripting using the powerful cURL extension. Leverage the power of your opt-in mail system with any type of user login or membership script. Mini-Course is available for a one-time $5 fee. Pay with PayPal.
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The downside to subscribing people via curl would be that you don’t get their IP address recorded, only that of your web server. I don’t remember whether that was considered “automated subscription” by aWeber or 1SC. I personally want to avoid any reason to be treated as a spammer, especially since I do not and will not send unsolicited email.
I prefer having the autoresponder service pass the info along to my other app and recording all the info I might want to stay anti-spam compliant with the AR service. For a friend I did some javascript tricks to send form fields to a PHP script after 1SC did it’s thing.
Curl is a cool solution, just be aware of what your AR terms of service allow.
Good point Wayne - I don’t know the facts on IP capture and terms of service with the various Mail providers - although when they accept subscriptions via email, they are not logging browser IP’s either. Probably would take a call to your provider to clarify. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
Carl
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