The article and author data is sent to your scripts by the POST method.
If you don't understand:
you'll need to find someone who does. That's how this works.
You will create a new article submission script on your site. If you require an author account to be created before articles are accepted, you will also need a registration script. Finally, if you require the author to login every time an article is submitted, you will need to create a login script.
The scripts must match the author and article data sent by Content Crooner to specific tables and fields in your database. While this script will be very similar to the script already referenced by your web site forms, it is unlikely that our data fields and your form fields share EXACTLY the same names.
In most cases, any qualified programmer can quickly modify copies of your existing scripts to accept Content Crooner data in addition to your form data.
You must understand both the concept of web scripting and your database layout to receive articles directly into your database.
If your site uses Article Dashboard, the folks on the AD forum created a script you can download. They'll even set it all up for you for a nominal fee.
Please note, they may be labeled "Article Marketer scripts" as that is what we used to be called. Don't worry, we made sure they work with Content Crooner.
If you require that an author account be created before accepting articles, each new account will be posted to your registration script as data fields for you to insert into your database. Here is the data you can expect:
This required information will be sent the first time we send you an article from a new author.
You can use this information to create (or to enhance) author accounts in your system.
We do not require authors to enter the following data however many do.
If you require a login before each article submission, here are the data fields you can expect to be posted to your login script:
Each article will be posted to your script as data fields for you to insert into your database. Here is the data you can expect:
This required information will be sent with each article. Note that author information is included with each article submission. This allows your script to match articles to your author accounts.
We do not require authors to enter the following data however many do.
Upload your scripts to the correct place on your site. That may be the same folder as your existing scripts, it might be somewhere else altogether. Because you are in total control, you maintain total security. By sending article information to you via the POST method, Content Crooner never interferes with your site security.
Because we only call a script that you create, own and manage, your database structure and all of the data within remains completely secure. The dataflow is strictly unidirectional. Data can only be entered via your script and existing data can be neither read nor changed because we are not accessing your database directly. Your site security is ensured.
Our system uses the POST method to deliver data to you just as if it were a form. Your script takes that data and makes the necessary updates in your database. Your script will create author account records and insert new article records. You might want to use two separate scripts. That's entirely up to you.
After you upload your script(s) it's simply a matter of telling us where to POST the articles. On the next page, you'll enter your site guidelines, choose the categories of articles you want (we offer over 300 categories) and tell us the URL(s) of the script(s) you have uploaded to your site.
This is NOT the URL of your current submission form. Your current submission form does not know how to process the data that will be POSTed to you from Content Crooner.
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