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Auto-Follow System


There are different methods to offer our service on your site. The easiest, and definately not the worst solution is to make use of our auto-follow system. If you preset certain values using $_GET attributes, our system will automatically fill those in and the user will be guided through the three subscription steps. Everything will be automated, except for the last step where the user has to verify his e-mail address. For example, to automatically subscribe to digg.com's most popular items with email@address.com as your e-mail address and a daily delivery interval, you would redirect the user to:

http://feedpostal.com/?url=http://feeds.digg.com/digg/popular.rss&mail=email@address.com&interval=daily&redirect=http://google.com

You could try it out, of course this example will return an invalid e-mail address error. As you can see there are 3 $_GET values in the above example: url, mail (not email!) and interval. Redirect is another optional value, if you set it the user will be redirected to the given address after subscription, this will normally be your homepage. All values are optional.

Make it look pretty!


Rather then simply redirecting, you could create a form allowing the user to fill in his preferences. Or, you can choose to only set the URL attribute, so the user is free to fill in his own information on our website. Example:

http://feedpostal.com/?url=http://feeds.digg.com/digg/popular.rss

We'll give you some examples on how to make things look good. The following form is using our submit API located at http://feedpostal.com/api/submit.php, which redirects all given form values to our Auto-Follow System. It could look like the following, however you can choose what values you want to give and you can edit the looks to your match your preferences:

E-mail:

This is the code of the above example:

<form method="post" name="feedform" action="http://feedpostal.com/api/submit.php">
    <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://feeds.digg.com/digg/popular.rss" />
    E-mail: <input type="text" name="mail" />
    <input type="submit" value="Subscribe!" />
</form>

As you could have guessed, there are 4 input values (url, mail, interval and redirect) which you can set. If you do not want to let the user insert his own data for a certain value, but default it to a certain value, add it as a hidden field. For example the feed URL input in the above code:

Feed url:
Email:

How often would you like to receive updates about this feed?
daily
weekly
monthly

And here's the corresponding code:

<form method="post" name="feedform" action="http://feedpostal.com/api/submit.php">
    <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://google.com" />
    Feed url: <input type="text" name="url" /><br />
    Email: <input type="text" name="mail" /><br /><br />
    <b>How often would you like to receive updates about this feed?</b><br />
    <input type="radio" name="interval" value="daily" checked="checked" /> daily<br />
    <input type="radio" name="interval" value="weekly" /> weekly<br />
    <input type="radio" name="interval" value="monthly" /> monthly<br /><br />
    <input type="submit" value="Subscribe!" />
</form>

Images


You can use any of the following images to link to or promote our service. You can of course also give any of these images a link with subscription values as seen above. If you want to change these images to your own style, please feel free to do so.