{"id":7240,"date":"2009-03-02T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2009-03-02T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:19:18","slug":"daisy-chained-source-tracking-with-the-universal-contact-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7240\/daisy-chained-source-tracking-with-the-universal-contact-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy-chained source-tracking with the Universal Contact Form"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the features I built into the Universal Contact Form<\/a> last night is source tracking. This is Direct Marketing 101 — know where your efforts are producing the best returns.<\/p>\n

So to invoke the form with source-tracking, you would just do this:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.domain.com\/UniversalContactForm.php?source=CLad2<\/pre>\n
In this case, we’re assuming that the source of the click into the form is a Craigslist posting.<\/p>\n
Same thing, but as a unique form:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.domain.com\/UniversalContactForm.php\r\n?action=Relocation&source=CLad2<\/pre>\n
(I had to break the line at the question mark to make it fit. Here and below, these should be seen as being all one line.)<\/p>\n
In reality, though, you’re not going to want to go directly to the form. You’re going to want to hit a landing page that has the form as its call to action. And, in light of that, you’re going to “include” the form in PHP.<\/p>\n
Alas, the variables passed from the URL in your Craigslist ad will be lost. You can’t live without the action variable, but you already know what to do about that: Hard code it.<\/p>\n
And that’s essentially what you’ll do with the source variable, as well — except you’ll soft code both variables by passing them through.<\/p>\n
So you invoke the form like this:<\/p>\n
include (\"http:\/\/www.domain.com\/UniversalContactForm.php\r\n?action=$action&source=$source\");<\/pre>\n
The action variable is being received into the PHP variable $action on the way into the landing page, and source is being received into $source. When you do the “include,” you are transferring to another variable space, so you need to pack up the two variables and ship them along as you go.<\/p>\n
But having done that, the form has access to them, so it behaves just as you want it to. You can daisy-chain like that as many times as you need to and the form will still receive the variables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the features I built into the Universal Contact Form last night is source tracking. This is Direct Marketing 101 — know where your efforts are producing the best returns. So to invoke the form with source-tracking, you would just do this: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/UniversalContactForm.php?source=CLad2 In this case, we’re assuming that the source of the click […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7223,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7223\/building-an-even-more-universal-universal-contact-form\/","url_meta":{"origin":7240,"position":0},"title":"Building an even more universal Universal Contact Form","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked before about the idea of a software universe -- where the set of actions possible in a given software configuration is so large that you can come up with tools and techniques never anticipated by the developers. 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