Magic Sales Letter

From: Iszuddin Ismail aka Kidino
Date: 26 September 2004
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

OK guys, I got it done.

I call it the Magic Sales Letter.

Now, there are three (3) files. You'll need them all.

- index.php - the processing engine (very simple actually)
- form.htm - your enquiry form
- page.htm - your sales letter

OK, here's the step-by-step, simplest instructions

STEP ONE

Open up form.htm and edit the form. This is an example of the form. Of course, it is simplified just to illustrate how this works.

<form action="index.php" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="d_cookielife" value="20">

<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="age">
<input type="text" name="city">

<input type="hidden" name="d_name" value="Friend">
<input type="hidden" name="d_age" "20">
<input type="hidden" name="d_city" "New York">
</form>

Let me explain.

Your form must use index.php for the action and must use method post. Then you can use any input with any name. But if you want to have a default value for a certain input, use the hidden input.

If you want to have a default value for the inputs, just use the hidden input. Name it with a "d_" followed with the name of the input you want to define the value for.

Example, if you want a default value for 'name', then use the hidden input, set a value and name if 'd_name'

The special hidden input, 'd_cookielife' is to define how long you wan the cookie to live. If you do not define a value for this, the default value is 30 days.

With the cookie life, when a visitor has entered input at the form, the next time the visitor visits, he/she WILL NOT be taken back to the form page. Instead he/she will be directly sent to the letter page - Cool eh?

But if it has passed your cookie life period, he/she will start to see the form again.

STEP TWO

Now you need to write you sales letter. You need to use simple PHP syntax for each input that you have defined. Let me just give an example.

If you want to show the value for 'name', just use <?=$name?>. If you want to show the value for 'city', just use <?=$city?>. If you don't understand this, just look at the example below.

Hello <?=$name?>. <br>

I see that you are from <?=$city?>

STEP THREE

When you have done all that, just upload your files into one folder. Everything in one place. Your webhosting should have defined index.php as default page. So just load the URL to the folder like

http://mydomain.com/folder/

or if you have in the public_html root folder, just load the domain like

http://mydomain.com

OK ... now this is where I will let you download and use the script in any way that you want but one condition.

USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY KIND OF DAMAGES - NO SUPPORT & WARRANTIES EITHER

If you agree to that, you can download it at ...

[ http://moneyclicking.net/msl.php ]

And here's a quick and dirty example - http://moneyclicking.net/isl

Iszuddin Ismail aka Kidino
Web Marketing Techie
MONEYCLICKING.NET