What am I doing wrong?: Adding a Subscribe Button to my sidebar

Without seeing your Subscribe code there's no way of us to tell you what's wrong... Can you post it here?

Most 'subscribe' buttons involve javascript I believe, which isn't supported.

I think this is the closest thing you can use...

http://www.addtoany.com/

Here is the HTML:  I not an HTML expert in the least bit...but I don't see any java script code...I am most likely wrong.

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="5158292">
<table>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Silver Membership">Silver Membership</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">
 <option value="One Month Free Trial">One Month Free Trial 
 <option value="Monthly Newsletter">Monthly Newsletter 
 <option value="Monthly Conference Call">Monthly Conference Call 
 <option value="One FREE Coaching Session - One Hour">One FREE Coaching Session - One Hour 
</select> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

Would I be able to embed this in a forum post or will it not be supported also?

Shepherdess

Hmmm. I can't get html to save in my custom html box.... Will try later for you.

Should that include the <embed> at the beginning, </embed> at the end?

I will try this suggestion...

Nope...the <embed> code doesn't work...I have a gapping hole...Any more ideas?

Oh, this kind of 'subscribe' button 

I've had a lot of trouble with the PayPal html and Lefora, they don't seem to like each other.

Oh, this kind of 'subscribe' button [image]

I've had a lot of trouble with the PayPal html and Lefora, they don't seem to like each other.

-zaklco

This is the basic code, replace XXXXXXX with your account #

<p align="center"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=XXXXX" class="external" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online." /></a></p>

credit for that ^^ goes to Hal9000

Thanks and kudos to hal9000 for sharing the code.  Just tested this and it worked fine alright.

Anyway, I just want to share this list of paypal button images w/c you can replace with the image from the above sample code.

Paypal button images:  http://www.atwebresults.com/paypal_buttons/

I'm presuming shepherdess can also use the same code above and just replace XXXXX with her own account number for subscription purposes and replace the image as well with a paypal subscription button image?  Am I right or am I wrong?

The SUBMIT button that sheperdess wants to employ will NOT work on Lefora as it requires background scripting to function. Either Javascript, PHP, ASP or Perl. Presumably this was copied from the source of another website or via a web page creation program. Elsewhere in that code will the the code to run the script when the SUMIT button is clicked.

Anyway, none of that will work here as the lefora does not support cross site scripting.

You may find a Widget in Flash code for form filling and submitting, check out widgetbox.com or do a search for FLASH FORM Widget. It will need to be a FLASH APPLET to work.

here's more info that might help (linking to paypal subscribe buttons from your lefora sidebar)

http://support.lefora.com/2008/10/08/frequently-asked-questions-w-answers/page2/#post9766773