LiveValidation, Aweber, and Collecting Phone Numbers Code/Help!? (14)

Ok,

So if anyone can help me out, im looking to be able to do live validation on a aweber, email form, along with a cell phone field integrated inside, with 3 slots, which collects the phone number inside a .txt file instead of going through aweber.

Im trying to get this to work past day and its so confusing... Besmir's walmart example collected the email.txt but how to do this when you want to collect a cell phone number that has 3 fields?

Also how to make aweber show the livevalidation?

Any help appreciated!

subscribing - looking forward to the answer as well!

I'll add something to this so a coder guy can do it easily for us..

This is what you put if you want to save an email.txt file:

<?
session_start();
$email=trim(@$_SESSION['email']);
if($email!=""){
$myFile = "phones.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $email."\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
}
?>


Now how do you do it if you have 3 fields and want to save a phone number instead?

First question would be why do you want to do this?

is there a reason why you need to save the phone number to a file...and not to aweber?

This does not show aweber integration as I don't use aweber but elaborates on the code you provided to show how to collect phone number.

<?
session_start();
//Grabs Email and trims white space from front and left.
$email=trim($_REQUEST['email']);

//Grabs each section from phone number.  Assuming you called the fields phone1, phone2, phone3.
$phone1 = $_REQUEST['phone1'];
$phone2 = $_REQUEST['phone2'];
$phone3 = $_REQUEST['phone3'];

//Combines the three phone numbers into one.
$phone = $phone1 . $phone2 . $phone3;

//Checks to see if email is not empty.  If it is not it tries to write the email to a text file.  
if($email!=""){

//Declares what file name should be
$myFile = "phones.txt";

//Tries to open the file.  If it can't it dies - I would not have it die as it would stop the progress of your users.
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");

//Assigns what will go in file - If only email use this one.
$stringData = $email."\n";

//If you want email and phone in comma separated line then this one
$stringData = $email.",".$phone."\n"; 

//Writes the line in the file
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

//Closes the file
fclose($fh);
}
?>

Ok...I've been wondering something, since we're on this topic.

In general, when you're collecting info, passing it on to the next page (like in the case of coreg)...
If you're using aweber, is there really anything special you need to do? Won't aweber validate for you?

(of course, this is not taking into account vidivo's special need).

From what i understand you can have aweber validate for you. When you pass on to aweber you can have aweber pass all of the form values back to your next page. On the next page is where you would have the code listed above to record to text file.

Originally Posted by polarbacon

First question would be why do you want to do this?

is there a reason why you need to save the phone number to a file...and not to aweber?

on the 3 field thing for phone numbers.....has any one got data on this? because i would say there is about 10 other things i would do first to improve CTR of that page first.....then worry about 3 boxes....

BUT

if you wanted to do that just setup 3 dif fields in aweber.....ph1 ph2 ph3 send then all to awebber......then when you need them export to CSV at aweber....then just cut and paste them from excel when you need them....or just merge those fields in excel....

and yes aweber can validate.....they will need to hit the back button as its not live validation per se.....

Originally Posted by clicktrack

This does not show aweber integration as I don't use aweber but elaborates on the code you provided to show how to collect phone number.

Code:

<?
session_start();
//Grabs Email and trims white space from front and left.
$email=trim($_REQUEST['email']);

//Grabs each section from phone number.  Assuming you called the fields phone1, phone2, phone3.
$phone1 = $_REQUEST['phone1'];
$phone2 = $_REQUEST['phone2'];
$phone3 = $_REQUEST['phone3'];

//Combines the three phone numbers into one.
$phone = $phone1 . $phone2 . $phone3;

//Checks to see if email is not empty.  If it is not it tries to write the email to a text file.  
if($email!=""){

//Declares what file name should be
$myFile = "phones.txt";

//Tries to open the file.  If it can't it dies - I would not have it die as it would stop the progress of your users.
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");

//Assigns what will go in file - If only email use this one.
$stringData = $email."\n";

//If you want email and phone in comma separated line then this one
$stringData = $email.",".$phone."\n"; 

//Writes the line in the file
fwrite($fh, $stringData);

//Closes the file
fclose($fh);
}
?>

Originally Posted by polarbacon

on the 3 field thing for phone numbers.....has any one got data on this? because i would say there is about 10 other things i would do first to improve CTR of that page first.....then worry about 3 boxes....

BUT

if you wanted to do that just setup 3 dif fields in aweber.....ph1 ph2 ph3 send then all to awebber......then when you need them export to CSV at aweber....then just cut and paste them from excel when you need them....or just merge those fields in excel....

and yes aweber can validate.....they will need to hit the back button as its not live validation per se.....

The code looks correct. What I would do is put just that code into a php file on your server. Then hit that code with a querystring. If it says can't open file on the screen then there is an issue with permissions and that is why it can't write. If the screen is blank then something else is going one and you will have to debug further. An easy way to debug it is to add lines of code to print things on your screen.

test.php?mobilenumer1=123&mobile_number2=456&mobil e_number3=7890 etc

You can do stuff like echo "HERE<BR>"; in between lines to make sure it is hitting the portion of the code. I would also add this echo $phone1."<BR>"; after you declare the phone1. That will tell you if the variable is being set correctly. Then again after $phone is set do the same thing echo $phone."<BR>";


This allows you to debug and it is a trial and error until you make sure it is all working write.

If it is working for you when you hit the page directly testing then the variables are not being set then the form data is not passing to your page correctly. If you are using cpv labs and the form hits base2.php you need to have the form user the get method and not the post method. Also note that php is case sensitive so if your form name is Mobile_number1 and you are doing $_REQUEST['mobile_number1']; it will not find anything because of the capital M.

Originally Posted by clicktrack

The code looks correct. What I would do is put just that code into a php file on your server. Then hit that code with a querystring. If it says can't open file on the screen then there is an issue with permissions and that is why it can't write. If the screen is blank then something else is going one and you will have to debug further. An easy way to debug it is to add lines of code to print things on your screen.

test.php?mobilenumer1=123&mobile_number2=456&mobil e_number3=7890 etc

You can do stuff like echo "HERE<BR>"; in between lines to make sure it is hitting the portion of the code. I would also add this echo $phone1."<BR>"; after you declare the phone1. That will tell you if the variable is being set correctly. Then again after $phone is set do the same thing echo $phone."<BR>";


This allows you to debug and it is a trial and error until you make sure it is all working write.

If it is working for you when you hit the page directly testing then the variables are not being set then the form data is not passing to your page correctly. If you are using cpv labs and the form hits base2.php you need to have the form user the get method and not the post method. Also note that php is case sensitive so if your form name is Mobile_number1 and you are doing $_REQUEST['mobile_number1']; it will not find anything because of the capital M.

Super bump but I just solved this as I've been dealing with this myself since yesterday...

I have this working on a web coreg path but not my mobile path so I was like 'WTF IT IS ALL THE EXACT SAME'!

BUT... It wasn't the exact same.

What seemed to do it for me was changing the "name" value of my mobile capture input to the same thing as the id.

Example...

$phone=@$_GET['CellPhone'];

<input name="CellPhone" id="CellPhone" class="textbox" maxlength="10" value="" type="text">