DHTML/Ajax "pop-ups" for collecting email addresses?

[mj]

Does anybody have code that will automatically "pop-up" a section on a page for a user to enter his email address or click cancel before using the page?

The usage is to collect email addresses of visitors to affiliate pages.

.

[mj]

After clumsily searching around for a while (I didn't understand the jargon to use in the search), I found the solution here:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...dhtmlmodal.htm

Basically I want the "sign up for our newsletter" demo to automatically load when a person visits the page. So I should be able to adapt that code to do what I want fairly easily.

When I get it working, I will post a link to the code here.

Basically what I am after is a sort of a pop-up that can not be blocked, but the user can just click X or a "no thanks" button if he doesn't want to sign up.

.

[alexd]

You might want to make sure that it will work if Javascript is turned off.

An alternative could be to use a simply form script, which, when the user completes - they are then simply redirected to whatever page they should go to, and the info from the form can either be stored in a database or emailed to you.

[mj]

Originally Posted by alexd

You might want to make sure that it will work if Javascript is turned off.

An alternative could be to use a simply form script, which, when the user completes - they are then simply redirected to whatever page they should go to, and the info from the form can either be stored in a database or emailed to you.

If Javascript is turned off, then I don't want them using my pages anyway :-)

I got it working somewhat so far, here is my demo:


http://sr0.org/modal/


Now just to modify it so that I can collect the email addresses... Stay tuned.

.

[clipper]

Very nice.

[mj]

OK, I've got it cleaned up and accessible via PHP now.

You can download it at http://sr0.org/modal.zip

The submitted email address is accessible via the variable $email on the index.php script. What you do with the contents of $email is up to you (write it to a text file, write it to a database, email it to yourself, etc).

The text of the "popup" page itself can be edited in modalfiles/newsletter.html

This is nice because it's not a real popup, so it can't be blocked in any way as far as I know.

.