tips and tricks for movable type
combined form for bloglet and mt notifications
February 24, 2003
I'm no Javascript whiz by any stretch of the imagination. But when Doc aka medic119 asked about creating a combined form for Bloglet subscriptions and MT notifications over in the support forums, I turned to Google to see what I could come up with.
Javascript:
function bloglet(form)
{
document.myform.action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp"
document.myform.submit()
}
function notify(form)
{
document.myform.action="<MTCGIPath>mt-add-notify.cgi"
document.myform.submit()
}
</script>
Form:
<input type="hidden" name="blog_id" value="<MTBlogID>">
<input type="hidden" name="_redirect" value="<MTBlogURL>">
<input type="hidden" name="ID" value="XXXX">
email: <input class="forms" value="" name="email" size="20"
maxlength="100" /><br/><br/>
url: <input class="forms" value=""
name="url" size="23" /><br/>
(optional)<br/><br/>
<input class="buttons" type="submit" value=" bloglet " onClick="bloglet()"; />
<input class="buttons" type="submit" value=" notify " onClick="notify()"; />
</form>
Replace XXXX with your Bloglet ID number.
Now, I have no idea what happens if someone submits a URL when choosing the Bloglet option (I was too lazy to test it that day). And I'd rather have radio buttons with a single submit button. And, of course, if this is possible without Javascript, that would be nice too.
But I thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone a) wants to use it, or b) can improve upon it in the aforementioned ways.
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Comments
This definitely more clever than the kludge I used (multiple forms) on my site's registration page... attempting to enable people to sign up for two separate bloglet notification lists AND a lyris list. Ack!
How could I simply have two buttons, one to subscribe to bloglet, and one to un-subscribe?
Also n00b question: Javascript goes in the header section, and form stuff goes in body section, right?