How to create email subscription form with custom dropdown options? [closed]

Question

i have multiple feeds in my blog and i want my subscribers to choose only the feed they are interested to subscribe rather then subcribing the whole blog. Is it possible to give select options on default feedburner subscription form??? something like this

<form class="email-form" onsubmit="window.open('document.email-form.menu.options[document.email-form.menu.selectedIndex].value;return false',  'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow"   method="post" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify">
          <input class="email" width="200px" type="text" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'enter your email...';}" onfocus="if (this.value == 'enter your email...') {this.value = '';}" value="enter your email..." name="email">
    <select name="menu" value="ALL">
    <option value="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=oranges">ORANGES</option>
    <option value="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=apples">APPLES</option>
    <option value="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=wine">WINE</option>
    </select>
    <input type="hidden" value="oranges" name="uri"/>
    <input type="hidden" value="apples" name="uri"/>
    <input type="hidden" value="wine" name="uri"/>

    <input type="hidden" value="en_US" name="loc">
    <input class="submitbt"  type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">
    </form>

i dont know what i am doing wrong , may be iam not defining the "uri" correctly or something wrong in onsubmit window.open function, please advise....

Answer 1

Your best bet may be to add a feedburner feed for each category then link to feeds.feedburner.com/account/category or something simular.

Answer 2

I've just been experimenting with something similar. Basically, you can only submit one email address to one feed at one time, and the crucial hidden value Feedburner needs is in the form itself - therefore you have to determine the user's feed selection before they subscribe.

<?php if(!$_POST['submit']): ?> 

    <form action="subscribe.php" method="post">
    <fieldset>
        <label for="">Please select your preferred sector:</label>
        <label for="regularRadio">
          <input type="radio" name="radios" id="regularRadio" value="feed1" />
          <span>Healthcare</span>
        </label>
        <label for="secondRegularRadio">
          <input type="radio" name="radios" id="secondRegularRadio" value="feed2" />
          <span>Public sector</span>
        </label>
        <label for="thirdRegularRadio">
          <input type="radio" name="radios" id="thirdRegularRadio" value="feed3" />
          <span>Finance</span>
        </label>
        <label for="fourthRegularRadio">
          <input type="radio" name="radios" id="fourthRegularRadio" value="allSectors" />
          <span>All jobs</span>
        </label>
     </fieldset>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Select" />

    </form>

<?php else:
if (!isset($_POST['radios'])) {
    echo '<a href="subscribe.php">Error: please select a sector</a>';
        } else {
            echo '<h2>Data</h2>';
            print_r($_POST);
    ?>

<form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=<?php echo $_POST['radios']; ?>', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">

<p>Now enter your email address:</p>

        <p><input type="text" name="email"/></p>

        <input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_POST['radios']; ?>" name="uri"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
        <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />

        <p>Delivered by <a href="http://feedburner.google.com" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></p>

</form>

<?php } endif; ?>

So, in effect a two-stage form that sets up subscriptions with Feedburner. Naturally, you have to create your feeds in Feedburner beforehand.