Best way to handle collecting e-mail's with a form

[invisible777]

I have a very simple form of about 10 fields, one being an e-mail field. As it stands, the 10 or so variables/data in this form are passed off to a third-party through their URL on the form submit. The form is hosted on my site.

I'm looking for a way to to do an additional thing with just the e-mail field. I need the variable still passed to this URL, but I also want to store it locally. (yes, I have permission from the third-party).

I currently use Aweber for my list management, and as far I can see Aweber wouldn't support this...

So my questions are

1) how could I go about doing this? i'm just looking to be pointed in the right direction

2) alternatives to aweber that might be more useful for doing something like this


any ideas?

 

[xmcp123]

If you're doing what I think you're doing, there's an option to use a GET request to submit the data. You can pretty easily have it submit to your own DB, then on the last page have a header(); redirect with the data.
If not, store it and have it create a bunch of hidden inputs on the last page that contains all their data(after you've stored it), and use document.formname.submit() to submit the form to them.

 

[invisible777]

I'm not a big developer but in theory I think I get what you're saying -- thanks.

Another question... anyone have any better alternatives to aweber? Open-source alternatives?

 

[ArtDeco]

I haven't used it but phplist is free, open source, and allows what you are asking for. I have heard there are delivery problems unless you rip out the footer links and so forth.

 

[ArtDeco]

Quick bump. After reading up on what Shady said about a get() request, it really doesn't matter which autoresponder or other form you are using, you can save the data first. I always just skipped over get() since nothing uses it. Just awesome.