Comments on: Subscribe list users to a MailChimp mailing list using Flash http://christiancox.com/?p=29 Web development and more. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:06:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-254 admin Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:06:20 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-254 Hi Chema, you're welcome! Always pleased to know that something I've worked on is useful to others. It is possible to add a field for your user's birthday and pass that to MailChimp. How do you plan to collect that information? I would imagine you can create a text input area where the user can type it in, or you can create a series of dropdown fields where the user can select a day, month and year. Then you will need to write a validation script that ensures this data is both valid (for instance, they have not tried to enter February 40, 109) and formatted correctly (YYYY-MM-DD is MailChimp's preferred format). If not, you need to present an error message to the user describing the problem and prompting them to correct it. When the data is both valid and formatted correctly, you would need to append that information in to the send_url variable. How you add that information depends on the name you have given to the "date" field in your mailing list and the variable name you are using to store that string data - for instance a mailing list field named "USERBDAY" and a string named "bDayString" would be added as "&merge_vars[USERBDAY]=" + bDayString. Not sure how familiar you are with Flash development, so this is a very high-level overview of the steps you would need to take. If you need more specific information, feel free to post here and I will try to help you out! Hi Chema, you’re welcome! Always pleased to know that something I’ve worked on is useful to others. It is possible to add a field for your user’s birthday and pass that to MailChimp. How do you plan to collect that information? I would imagine you can create a text input area where the user can type it in, or you can create a series of dropdown fields where the user can select a day, month and year. Then you will need to write a validation script that ensures this data is both valid (for instance, they have not tried to enter February 40, 109) and formatted correctly (YYYY-MM-DD is MailChimp’s preferred format). If not, you need to present an error message to the user describing the problem and prompting them to correct it. When the data is both valid and formatted correctly, you would need to append that information in to the send_url variable. How you add that information depends on the name you have given to the “date” field in your mailing list and the variable name you are using to store that string data – for instance a mailing list field named “USERBDAY” and a string named “bDayString” would be added as “&merge_vars[USERBDAY]=” + bDayString. Not sure how familiar you are with Flash development, so this is a very high-level overview of the steps you would need to take. If you need more specific information, feel free to post here and I will try to help you out!

]]> By: Chema http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-253 Chema Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:21:06 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-253 Hi Christian, thanks for sharing this to us. I was wondering if it´s possible to add a field for my users brithday using the Date field of Mailchimp. Thanks a lot. Hi Christian, thanks for sharing this to us. I was wondering if it´s possible to add a field for my users brithday using the Date field of Mailchimp.

Thanks a lot.

]]> By: Steve Kiges http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-252 Steve Kiges Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:23:10 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-252 We have been looking for this of code for some time. I have sent it over to my developer and will let you know how it works for us. Thanks so much! We have been looking for this of code for some time. I have sent it over to my developer and will let you know how it works for us. Thanks so much!

]]> By: admin http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-203 admin Thu, 06 May 2010 18:54:17 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-203 That is interesting - is it possible the confirmation message is going into your spam folder, or is it possible your email server is experiencing issues? What if you try subscribing a different email? That is interesting – is it possible the confirmation message is going into your spam folder, or is it possible your email server is experiencing issues? What if you try subscribing a different email?

]]> By: Zachary http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-202 Zachary Thu, 06 May 2010 18:38:16 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-202 Hello Christian. Great work on this form. I do have a strange issue. I integrated all of your pieces into my existing Flash stuff and it all seems to work. I get a successful message when testing online. However, I never receive the confirmation email, nor does the Mail Chimp List show a new subscriber. Any thoughts? The API Key and List are both brand new...maybe a delay on Mail Chimp's side or did I miss adding a variable to the .as file? Hello Christian. Great work on this form. I do have a strange issue. I integrated all of your pieces into my existing Flash stuff and it all seems to work. I get a successful message when testing online. However, I never receive the confirmation email, nor does the Mail Chimp List show a new subscriber. Any thoughts? The API Key and List are both brand new…maybe a delay on Mail Chimp’s side or did I miss adding a variable to the .as file?

]]> By: admin http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-145 admin Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:07:42 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-145 Hi Artemis, glad to be of help. Not sure I understand how the "share with a friend" mailchimp form would work - how would it tie in to MailChimp? A "share with a friend" form might be helpful on your site, but I don't see how it would need to integrate with MailChimp in any way. If a simple mail form is sufficient, you might check out this <a href="http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_email.htm" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a>. Hi Artemis, glad to be of help. Not sure I understand how the “share with a friend” mailchimp form would work – how would it tie in to MailChimp? A “share with a friend” form might be helpful on your site, but I don’t see how it would need to integrate with MailChimp in any way. If a simple mail form is sufficient, you might check out this tutorial.

]]> By: Artemis http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-144 Artemis Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:03:53 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-144 Thanks, this was really helpful. Now, do you happen to have a "share with a friend" mailchimp form for Flash? Thanks, this was really helpful.

Now, do you happen to have a “share with a friend” mailchimp form for Flash?

]]> By: alan starck http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-140 alan starck Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:38:19 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-140 Thanks! Sorted! Excellent help ;o) Thanks!
Sorted!
Excellent help ;o)

]]> By: admin http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-139 admin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:56 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-139 No problem Alan, I'm going to email you directly and see if we can get it working for ya! No problem Alan, I’m going to email you directly and see if we can get it working for ya!

]]> By: alan starck http://christiancox.com/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-138 alan starck Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:02 +0000 http://christiancox.com/?p=29#comment-138 Thanks for the reply. I won't keep writing cos I don't want to fill up your blog with my rubbish! So in my flash file I make some text entry fields using the text tool with 'input text' option selected, I give them instance names FNAME, LNAME and EMAIL. I then create a button from the common libraries. I make sure no specific item is selected then open the action window and paste the above code in. i change the apicode string to a little 10 digit number something like this '123abcde [edited by admin]' and list id to something that looks like this 'QWERTYPOIUt [edited by admin]'. Then that should be it? Do I somehow have to link the button, or the fields or something? I think the button is where my problem is, cos its not doing anything when i click it and there is nothing in the action. Maybe I am missing a huge step-cos there is no form thing in my library etc. Oh dear Sorry, I am a true amateur, who has been struggling to build my site for my music on no knowledge. It has been a real struggle and this is the last hurdle if you like. I am very grateful for your help! A Thanks for the reply.
I won’t keep writing cos I don’t want to fill up your blog with my rubbish!
So in my flash file I make some text entry fields using the text tool with ‘input text’ option selected, I give them instance names FNAME, LNAME and EMAIL. I then create a button from the common libraries.
I make sure no specific item is selected then open the action window and paste the above code in. i change the apicode string to a little 10 digit number something like this ‘123abcde [edited by admin]‘ and list id to something that looks like this ‘QWERTYPOIUt [edited by admin]‘. Then that should be it?
Do I somehow have to link the button, or the fields or something? I think the button is where my problem is, cos its not doing anything when i click it and there is nothing in the action.
Maybe I am missing a huge step-cos there is no form thing in my library etc. Oh dear
Sorry, I am a true amateur, who has been struggling to build my site for my music on no knowledge. It has been a real struggle and this is the last hurdle if you like. I am very grateful for your help!

A

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