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How to pass email details from followup message to wep page?

by Phil_t
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Hi,

Does anyone know how to pass email details like the subscriber's name from email followups to a web page?

I found the following info below but it's not working and Aweber support haven't been that helpful. Also, this isn't the solution I'm after since it deals with passing web form details to your thank you page. It would still be something I want to do though.

https://help.aweber.com/entries/2169...hank-You-Page-

Cheers,

Phil
#details #email #followup #message #page #passing #wep
  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
    To pass their name to your webpage via follow-up emails, the link in the email you send out would have to have the personalization token in a query string at the end of the link, like...

    www.YourWebsite.com/landing.php?name={!firstname_fix}

    I can't remember for sure, but I think it won't work if you include the "http://" in the link -- so just start the link with "www". So basically, the link should look like this when it arrives in your subscribers inbox...

    www.YourWebsite.com/landing.php?name=bob

    Then on your landing.php page, you would do this wherever you want to display their name...

    <?php if (ctype_alnum($_GET['name'])) { echo $_GET['name']; } ?>

    For example...

    <p>Hello     <?php if (ctype_alnum($_GET['name'])) { echo $_GET['name']; } ?>, glad you're here!</p>

    @ you're other comment (passing subscriber info to your thankyou page after they opt-in), that most definitely "works". The following link may be of more help to you regarding how to do that...

    https://help.aweber.com/entries/2177...ank-You-Pages-
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    • Profile picture of the author Phil_t
      Hi Brandon,

      Thanks for that. Will give it a go. Will it work with optimize press?

      About the other comment, I know it works but I can't get it to work. Just getting a 'page not found' message on the thank you page.

      Thanks!

      Phil

      Edit: I have since tried installing exec-php plugin with no luck, so may try building a separate php landing page.

      Not sure why the javascript way isn't working either: https://help.aweber.com/entries/2169...hank-You-Page-

      Edit 2: Ok, so I tried a bunch of plugins and other possible work arounds but none have worked, so I'm just going to add these pages as php pages in my wordpress which isn't ideal but at least it works.

      By the way, both of these (www and http://) worked for me in case anyone was wondering. Not that it matters.

      www.YourWebsite.com/landing.php?name={!firstname_fix}
      http://YourWebsite.com/landing.php?name={!firstname_fix}

      Thanks for your help Brandon. Much appreciated!
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      • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
        Yeah, no problem! I'm not a WordPress guy so I couldn't help you with that part. Glad you got the rest of it sorted though.

        I haven't tested it in a long time, but if I recall correctly, it used to be that if you included the "http://" part in the link, Aweber would cloak the link and it would screw up any personalization tokens in the link. Guess they fixed that.
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