Capturing email address..

[ahksar]

Hi,
I am sending subscribers an email about a survey they have to fill, and I have given the link to the survey in the email. When they click on the link, is there a way that I can capture their email address, and pass it on to the form, so that I can keep track of who filled out the form through their email ID's?I guess I have to use CGI variables, but I dont know which one.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.Thanks
ahksar

 

[tlhawkins]

Hi ahksar

First thing that comes to mind is to code there Email address into a URL variable in the link you send them.

so there link would look like
<a href=&quot;takeasurvey.cfm?myemailaddress=whereitwassent@who.com&quot;>
Click me to take a survey</a>

You get the idea.

Then when they arrive at the survey you can read the URL variable called URL.myEmailaddress and set a hidden form variable with it.

Let me know if you need more detail, or if this works for you.

 

[GunJack]

Hey Ahksar,

I would add a few suggestions on top of what tlhawkins posted. Instead of passing the e-mail address (make sure to use #urlencodedformat()#) in plain text, you might want to encode it with encrypt() so the user doesn't think they're passing their e-mail address to something. People are very privacy minded and may not like seeing their address in a link that they're about to click on. Another option would be to pass the primary key for the database record that holds their e-mail address. This way you just pass back a number and then retrieve their e-mail address from the database. This assumes that you're using a table to send out your e-mails though.

Good luck,
GJ