Integrate AWeber with vBulletin Registration

Integrating AWeber with vBulletin using Email parser has many drawbacks. One of them was double email confirmation. Other is when you have more than one way for users to subscribe. For e.g. if you have an AWeber form where user can subscribe to your list ideally you need to have 2 different type of confirmation emails. One for forum user and other for non forum users but as of now this is not possible in AWeber for a single list. You can opt for double list and setup automation rules but managing 2 lists can be a headache as well.

So here I am with a new product for vBulletin which actually makes your vBulletin registration 2 step registration processes by adding an AWeber subscribe as first step and in the second step he can register at vBulletin.

Before I describe about how to install the plug-in make sure you know basic of HTML. If you have no knowledge of HTML I can help you install this plug-in for you. Also remember this plug-in is compatible with vBulletin 4+ and I have no plans to make it work for vBulletin 3 currently.

Now let us begin.

Step 1

Generate an inline AWeber form but remember to have your vBulletin registration page as form thank you page.

Point to note here is the query string that you need to pass to your vBulletin registration page which is

?do=step2

Step 2

Download the plug-in and Upload startregister.php file to your forum root where you have your vBulletin’s register.php file.

Step 3

Go to your forum admincp and import the product.

Go to AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Products and import the product using the XML file attached in the zip file.

Step 4

After you have successfully imported the product you will see a new template called aweber_register in your Styles & Templates > Style Manager.

Edit the template to input your AWeber form details that was generated in step 1. We have used inline form in step 1 and so we have option of using Raw HTML for our AWeber form.

You will need to edit the following in the aweber_register template.

<!-- AWeber Tracking Image -->
<div style="display: none;">
 <img src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/displays.htm?id=jMycnEyMLOws" alt="" />
</div>
<!-- / AWeber Tracking Image -->
<!-- AWeber Hidden Form Fields -->
<div style="display: none;">
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_web_form_id" value="139921474" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_split_id" value="" />
 <input type="hidden" name="listname" value="mbaguys" />
 <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/register.php?do=step2" id="redirect_2f5e6f9337080be57c07213dc55e3325" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_redirect_onlist" value="{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/register.php" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value="BeforeVBReg" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_message" value="1" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_required" value="email" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_forward_vars" value="1" />
 <input type="hidden" name="meta_tooltip" value="" />
</div>
<!-- / AWeber Hidden Form Fields -->

You have to edit

<img src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/displays.htm?id=jMycnEyMLOws" alt="" />

This is for tracking of form display and submissions. You will see image code in your AWeber HTML form code which you need to replace in the template.

Content between the hidden div needs to be changed to your AWeber hidden field value.

<div style="display: none;">
 // Hidden Fields of AWeber.
</div>

AWeber arranges the hidden fields just under the <form> tag and you can copy them and replace with those in the template.

Step 5 (Optional)

You can edit the register template to make the email address on the original vBulletin form as read only so that user from step 1 of AWeber cannot edit email in vBulletin registration.

To edit the register template, find

<input type="text" name="email" id="email" maxlength="50" value="{vb:raw email}" dir="ltr" tabindex="1" />

Replace with

<input type="text" name="email" id="email" maxlength="50" value="{vb:raw email}" dir="ltr" tabindex="1" readonly />

Find

<input type="text" name="emailconfirm" id="emailconfirm" maxlength="50" value="{vb:raw emailconfirm}" dir="ltr" tabindex="1" />

Replace with

<input type="text" name="emailconfirm" id="emailconfirm" maxlength="50" value="{vb:raw emailconfirm}" dir="ltr" tabindex="1" readonly />

Support

I will be giving full support to this plug-in and if you have any difficulty just post your issues in comments. I will be more than happy to help.

Tagged as: AWeber, vBulletin

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Further Reading:

1. Integrate AWeber with vBulletin
2. How to Address Double Email Confirmation of AWeber & vBulletin
3. Integrate AWeber with phpBB
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