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6/25/2008 6:20 PM

Oscar Martin

www.bestwebsites.co.nz
Joined: 3/24/2004

Posts: 419

Re: Forms In a Skin

dkirsche wrote

I am trying to create a new skin and noticed that dnn does not like forms in the skin. I would like to include a simple form to gather an email address for our newsletter. The form code that I am using was provided by our third party email marketing company. This is the only way that I can gather emails and have it automatically saved on my email hosting company's server.

Any suggestions how to get this form working?

Its not so easy to include an aweber (or similar) form in DNN because the whole DNN page is a form, and you can not have a form inside a form. The two just dont work well together.

I've done it in a couple of different ways, the method depends on if you want the form to show on every page vs only on selected pages.. let us know which one you want.. There are advantages and drawbacks of each method, there is no perfect method for including aweber in DNN ...

JK

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6/25/2008 6:22 PM

Oscar Martin

www.bestwebsites.co.nz
Joined: 3/24/2004

Posts: 419

Re: Forms In a Skin

Sam Tanner wrote

There's an easy way...

Just add a closing /form tag prior to the opening tag for your form.

Yikes .. surely that would kill your site?? Nothing below the 2nd form would work...

JK

6/25/2008 9:03 PM

Will Strohl

https://upendoventures.com
Joined: 3/1/2005

Posts: 2884

Re: Forms In a Skin

dkirsche wrote

I like the idea of just closing the form, but I am a little worried that it would mess up dnn some how. Are you sure it won't cause other problems?

There's only one way to find out... ;)

Will Strohl

Upendo Ventures
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6/25/2008 9:37 PM

Oscar Martin

www.bestwebsites.co.nz
Joined: 3/24/2004

Posts: 419

Re: Forms In a Skin

dkirsche wrote

I like the idea of just closing the form, but I am a little worried that it would mess up dnn some how. Are you sure it won't cause other problems?

Also, just to comment on a previous post, I would like to keep this form in the skin because I want it to show up on every page. I would prefer not having to add this form to every page that I create.

Dan

Thats easy to do ... if you have only one portal and if you have no plans to add other portals ... just change the (root)/Default.aspx file and add your form .js link:

<body id="Body" runat="server" >
    <noscript></noscript>
    <dnn:Form id="Form" runat="server" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" style="height: 100%;" autocomplete="off">
        <asp:Label ID="SkinError" runat="server" CssClass="NormalRed" Visible="False"></asp:Label>
        <asp:PlaceHolder ID="SkinPlaceHolder" runat="server" />
        <input id="ScrollTop" runat="server" name="ScrollTop" type="hidden" />
        <input id="__dnnVariable" runat="server" name="__dnnVariable" type="hidden" />
    </dnn:Form>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/nn/nnnnnnnnn.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Note that a skin goes inside the <form> tags above, so you cant use a skin (because of the form in a form problem).

JK

6/25/2008 11:35 PM

dkirsche

Joined: 6/20/2008

Posts: 8

Re: Forms In a Skin

I would like the email form to be shown on selected pages. Basically I will be creating two or three skins, and will want the form on all pages with a certain skin. How would you suggest I do it?

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