centerform method="post" action="http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl"

input type="hidden" name="meta_web_form_id" value="12345"

input type="hidden" name="meta_split_id" value=""

input type="hidden" name="unit" value="mylist"

input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.aweber.com/form/thankyou_vo.html"

input type="hidden" name="meta_redirect_onlist" value=""

input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value=""

input type="hidden" name="meta_message" value="1"

input type="hidden" name="meta_required" value="from"

input type="hidden" name="meta_forward_vars" value="0"

table

trtd colspan=2center/center/td/tr

trtdEmail:/tdtdinput type="text" name="from" value="" size="20"/td/tr

trtdName:/tdtdinput type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"/td/tr

trtd align="center" colspan="2"input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/td/tr

/table

/form/center

(UPDATED TO REMOVE HTML)

Susan - thanks for posting your solution, as I too have been "struggling with this for hours".  However, I think I have done all you suggested but I can't get things working.  A few questions if you don't mind helping...

My AWeber html is as follows:

I created fields in Form Master for all of the fields I have underlined above and set Silent Post with Value name equal to all that follows name=.  So for the first field, "Meta Web Form ID", I had value name of "meta_web_form_id" value="1x3x1x8x18"

I then went to "Other Settings" and set the post URL in Silent Post to:   http://aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl



The info never makes it into AWeber.  Do you have any ideas?  Thanks, as I have been pulling my hair out over this one.

Hi David,

For meta_web_form_id, here's what I have. In Form Master, make sure is is set to Hidden under Type in FM. Place a checkmark next to Exclude from Email and Data.

Under Autofill, set to none and make your Default Text be the number next to meta Web form id.

Under Send Value by Options, click Silent Post and next to Value Name put meta_web_form_id

Another thing I noticed is that you have a "meta_required" field. Don't do the validation in AWeber. Use the validation in Form Master (under Validators) on your "from" field.

It's also possible that you won't be able to use the Ad Tracking. (I've never used that feature.) But anything that needs a return from AWeber to work *won't* work. All you can do is a form post to AWeber.

The fields I have are:
meta_web_form_id (hidden)
unit (hidden)
meta_message (hidden)
meta_forward_vars (hidden)
Email*
Name*
(*set to required using Form Master validation)

I hope that helps!

FYI, our DNN site with an actual working AWeber form is here:


- Susan

Thank you!!!!  That did it.  I was putting the name AND value in the value name field.....  duhhhhh......  :-)

I have the list verification turned off in AWeber but i noticed when I submit the form via Form Master AWeber asks me to "verify" that I want to opt-in to the list with a verification email.  Do you experience the same?

Thanks a lot for your help!!!

-Dave

Hi David,

I'm glad it worked!

All my lists are set to double opt-in, so yeah, everyone gets a verification email. I set up a "thank you" page on the DNN site that AWeber redirects to that explains people NEED to click the link or they aren't subscribed.

- Susan

Hi Susan,

In addition to adding people to aweber, how do you handle adding users who sign up on your Join Now page as a DNN user so they can log into the member parts of the site?

Steve V

Hi Steve,

Actually, I don't have it integrated with the built-in DNN User Registration stuff at all. I let people choose their own username and password in the FormMaster form and then enter them manually myself later into DNN, after they've paid. (So in the security settings, User Registration is set to None...and you'll notice there's not a "register" link on the site, just a log in link.)

I tried setting up the DNN built-in user registration features and made an unbelievably horrible mess because I wanted to capture so much information. It was easier to use the FormMaster form instead. Eventually, I might figure out how to link the two, but for now, it's a lot easier to just type it in the user log in info myself.

I'm sure someone else has figured out some slick solution, but not me. Like I said, I'm not a programmer and it was all beyond what I could figure out from Dot Net Nuke for Dummies  ;-)

- Susan

Going back to the original problem, as it turns out AWeber doesn't let you do this after all. The FormMaster silent post is a bust.

Technically, you can do it for a while. But here, it says no:

What happens it seems is that it works for a while. But then AWeber notices that all your posts are coming from the same IP address.

Then it stops working.

This just happened to us, which is a very, very large pain. We're somehow going to have to integrate just ONE pure HTML page on our DNN site to keep AWeber happy.

- Susan

Susan had helped me get this working with aWeber but I dropped them and went with iContact for many reasons.  It works perfectly with iContact.  The main problem I found with aWeber is that if you have a list of contacts that you have been emailing and then put them into aWeber, they have to opt-in to the aWeber list again.  This seems like a real nice way to tick off your existing contacts and lose them.  iContact has a much better interface and I am extremely happy with their service.