Aweber To DAP (<=4.3.1)
Follow this documentation page for Aweber-to-DAP integration only if you’re using DAP 4.3.1 or older.
(For DAP version 4.4 and newer, click here)
Subscriber Flow
The flow of subscriber in this model, is “FROM Aweber TO DAP“. User gets added to Aweber first, then arrives at DAP via Aweber “thank you page”, at which point she gets added to DAP.
Now, if the flow is from DAP-to-Aweber, and are using email parsing to integrate DAP and Aweber, then your Aweber list will always be double-opt-in (as per Aweber policy, nothing to do with DAP).
But if you want your Aweber list to be single-opt-in, then you can use an Aweber signup form on your squeeze page (instead of the DAP sign-up form) and then have Aweber add users to DAP.
Please note that you cannot use this flow for Paid members – because paid members will need to have paid first, which means DAP needs to process their payment first, and if successful, it can add them to Aweber. So for paid members and paid content, always use the other DAP-to-Aweber flow.
But for free signups (say, like when you’re trying to build a list), you can add them to Aweber first using the flow explained below, just so you can take advantage of making your Aweber list single-optin, and then have Aweber add the subscriber to DAP on the other end. So this way, DAP can then create a free account for them, email them their login/password, and give them access to the “Free” content (that is, content available only to “Registered” users, so to speak), etc.
So here are the steps…
Aweber To DAP Integration
1. Go to DAP Dashboard > Products > Manage page.
2. Note down the Product Id of the product to which you want to sign-up the users (after adding them Aweber first, of course)
3. There is a file called dap-aweber.php in the dap folder. Make a copy of that file and call it dap-aweber-PRODUCTID.php.
Replace with the text PRODUCTID with the actual Product Id you noted in the previous step.
So in the example above, Product Id is 2. So the name of the file copy should be dap-aweber-2.php.
4. Open this file (dap-aweber-2.php).
The first line of code in this file looks like this:
$default_product_id = 1; //Change this to any product id from DAP
Change the part shown in bold below:
$default_product_id = 2; //Change this to any product id from DAP
Upload this file back to /dap folder on your site.
Aweber List Is Single Optin
If your Aweber list is single-optin, then follow the steps below. If not, skip to “Aweber List Is Double-Optin” flow further below.
5. Now login to your AWeber account.
5A) From the “Current List” drop-down, select the list that you wish to sign up users to.
5B) Click on “Web Forms” in the menu at the top.
5C) Edit existing form by clicking on the name of the list.
6. On the next page – the list form generator page – click on ‘Go to Step 2’ towards the bottom of the page.
7. On the next, page….
7A) Click on the thankyou page dropdown and select ‘Custom’.
7B) Set the thank you Page URL to http://YourSite.com/dap/dap-aweber-PRODUCTID.php
Replace YourSite.com with the name of your site.
Replace PRODUCTID with the ProductId of the product you noted in step 2.
So, if the productId of the product in DAP is 2, then the thankyou page URL will be – http://yoursite.com/dap/dap-aweber-2.php
7C) Where it says “Pass Form Data”, check the check box so that Aweber can “Forward subscriber information to your thank you page” – which essentially is DAP, so that DAP can add the subscriber to your membership site.
That’s it!
Aweber List Is Double-Optin
In this flow, set up your Web Form as usual, with no DAP-specific settings required.
Only change required is in the Aweber list’s main “List Settings” page.
5. Now login to your AWeber account.
6. From the “Current List” drop-down, select the list that you wish to sign up users to.
7. Go to My Lists > List Settings
8. Go to “Confirmed Opt-In” tab
9. Scroll down to “3: Success Page“, and enter the URL of the special dap-aweber-2.php script (or whatever the file name is) you created back in Step #4 above.
Check the check-box that says “Pass subscriber info for personalizing this page”.
Ignore the comment that says “Not recommended for WordPress users”, because this is going to point to a DAP script, and not a WordPress page.
Click on “Save Settings”.
That’s it!
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Now that you’ve set up DAP to integrate with your Aweber list (single- or double-optin), you may use the Aweber web form directly on your squeeze page for signing up subscribers (instead of DAP’s “Direct Signup Form”).
Now, every time a subscriber signs up via the Aweber form, they will automatically be added to DAP.
If your list is single-optin, then the subscriber will be added to DAP instantly after sign-up.
If your list is double-optin, then the subscriber will be added to DAP only AFTER they’ve clicked on the Aweber double-optin confirmation link.
In both cases, they will be redirected to the DAP Login Form.
You may also configure the DAP Product’s “Welcome Email” to send out the DAP email and password via DAP itself.
-OR-
You can leave the Welcome Email in DAP Product page as blank. And then configure DAP to generate a default password (DAP Admin > Setup > Config > Default Password) as shown below, and then enter that same pre-chosen password in to your very first Aweber follow up email that goes out to your subscribers, so that they can receive their dap id/password details directly from your Aweber list.
For more details about this default password, please see this post.
NOTE: If you want to send the subscriber to a different page (instead of the DAP login page) upon sign-up, then do this:
- Open dap-aweber-2.php (or whatever the script name is)
- Look for this line :
$redirect = Dap_Config::get(“LOGIN_URL”); - Update it to point to any URL of your choice. For eg.,
$redirect = “http://yoursite.com/thankyou”;
This way you can redirect users after they complete the Aweber signup, to a landing page of your choice.
