Client registration form

The client registration form allows for advertisers to come to your site and register themselves for inclusion in your newsletter. A sample form "client-registration-form.html" has been provided which you may modify for your own site. The following notes are requirements for creating your own forms from scratch for use with this script.

  1. The form should call the "client-reg.pl" CGI program. This script is to be placed in the /cgi-bin directory and should be accessed using the POST method.

  2. The following form fields are required to be placed within the form, and may be either hidden form fields or entry box fields:

    contactname (required)
    The contact name provides you an indication of who it is that is using your system and allows you to at least address them by name when you need to speak to them.

    contactemail (required)
    The contact e-mail address provides the newsletter adminstrator a means of contacting the advertiser regarding any issues arising from their use of the newsletter service.

    username (required)
    The username is a unique name that will be used to identify a specific advertiser. This username will be used whenever that user would like to access your system to get information on their daily statistics.

    password (required)
    The password field is required and will be used to authenticate the advertiser when they would like to gain access to their statistics on the Webserver at some later point.

    chequeto (required)
    The chequeto field is required and will be used to outline who the cheques should be issued to for any payments made to this sponsor for referring readers to the newsletter.

    street (required)
    The street field is required and will be used to outline where payments for this sponsor should be sent.

    provstate (required)
    The provstate field is required and will be used to outline where payments for this sponsor should be sent.

    city (required)
    The city field is required and will be used to outline where payments for this sponsor should be sent.

    postalzip (required)
    The postalzip field is required and will be used to outline where payments for this sponsor should be sent.

    adtitle (required)
    The advertisement title is required and will be included within any newsletters containing an impression for this advertisement. The title should describe who/what the advertisement is for.

    adtext (required)
    The advertisement text is required and will be included within any newsletters containing an impression for this advertisement. The text will be included verbatim within the newsletter, including any possibly embedded HTML code.

    adurl (required)
    The advertisement URL is required and will be included within any newsletters containing an impression for this advertisement. The URL will be shown after the advertisement text on the next line and will be used for readers to click on to gain access to the advertiser's site.