What are my options for stripping data?

[windjc]

I'm not sure if "stripping data" is what it's called, but what I'm referring to creating a landing for an affiliate offer that requires a first page submit and taking the form data for myself too.

So, if there are two or five or seven fields, I'd like to get that information as well.

I know there are ways to do this, because I have seen it referred to many times in different threads.

I also know that legally I will need additional disclaimers and such.

So are we talking Iframing the data fields, some other special code, or embedding the data fields in some way so that my landing page looks like the offer page and redirects the user to the offer 2nd page once they enter the information?

I'm just not sure how this works and what I need to learn to make it happen.

Cheers.

 

[jryan21]

This may need to be modified, depending on how transparent you need it to be.

make the form action for your LP post to itself. Use a script in the language of your choice to do the following:

on POST{
If data does not exist, load the blank form.

Else      put the formdata in a variable, 
           write it to a db, 
           post it to the merchant's post url,
           Load the blank form.
}

sorry for my crappy pseudocode.

 

[windjc]

This may need to be modified, depending on how transparent you need it to be.

make the form action for your LP post to itself. Use a script in the language of your choice to do the following:

on POST{
If data does not exist, load the blank form.

Else      put the formdata in a variable, 
           write it to a db, 
           post it to the merchant's post url,
           Load the blank form.
}

sorry for my crappy pseudocode.

Lol. You just gave me what looks like the perfect answer and I have no idea what it means.

Since I dont do coding myself, should I outsource these specs to a coder and have them do it for me?

I really wish I understood what you just told me.