Help > Form Variables

Sign up forms are provided through the Generate Customer Sign-up Form function. You can use and customise the generated html code provided to suit your needs. The forms allow customers to subscribe to your particular autoresponder/mailing list.

Below is a list of form variables that can be used in your signup form.

• firstname - The customer’s first name.
• lastname – The customer’s last name.
• email –The customer’s email address.
• address1 – The customer’s postal address.
• address2 – A continuation of the customer’s address if needed
• city – The customer’s city
• state – The customer’s region/state
• zipcode – The customer’s postcode/zip
• phone – The customer’s phone number.
• fax – The customer’s fax number.

The following two variables are hidden variables (i.e. they do not get seen by the user when the form is displayed on the browser screen.)

• un – This variable is set to the name of your account (i.e. the account name you chose when you signed up.)
• function - This is always set to addresponder2. It tells the computer program where to go to process the form.

The following 10 variables are used for demographic data collection. It is recommended that you set up the customer signup form and demographics data set through your control panel. Then, save and edit the form that is generated by the system on your behalf.

• options1  – Generic data collection input field
• options2  - Generic data collection input field
• options3  - Generic data collection input field
• options4  - Generic data collection input field
• options5  - Generic data collection input field
• options6  - Generic data collection input field
• options7  - Generic data collection input field
• options8  - Generic data collection input field
• options9  - Generic data collection input field
• options10 - Generic data collection input field

The following 5 variables are true generic data collection fields. That is their only purpose in the system and you can use them for anything you wish. The easiest way to create a signup form with these variables is to use the Generate Customer Sign-up Form.

• custom1 - Generic data collection input field
• custom2 - Generic data collection input field
• custom3 - Generic data collection input field
• custom4 - Generic data collection input field
• custom5 - Generic data collection input field