We send information to your site using the POST method, and the variables we send are listed below
Author Info
- author - variable to check if it's an author or article post. Check if it's set or not.
- email - variable to send author's email address.
- password - variable to send author's account password.
- first_name - Authors first name only.
- last_name - Authors last name only.
- auth_name - Authors full pen name. For example, John Doe
- address1 - Authors address line 1.
- address2 - Authors address line 2.
- zip_code - Authors zip code.
- city - Authors city name.
- state - Authors state name.
- country - Authors country name.
- phone - Authors phone number.
- fax - Authors fax number.
- IP_NUM - Authors ip number.
- bio - Authors resource box for the author's bio page. A separate author resource box is sent with article submissions.
- web - Authors website address for the author's bio page.
Article Info
- articles - variable to check if it's an author or article post. Check if it's set or not.
- email - Author's email address
- category - Article's Category Name. It doesn't matter whether the category name is a main category or subcategory. The article will
go to the category name as long as it exists in your database.
- title - Title of the article.
- article - Body text of the article.
- description - Summary text of the article.
- keywords - Keywords for the article. We require these to be entered by each author.
- resource_box - Author's resource box for each article.
- wordcount - Word count for each article.
To get any of the information in any of the variables we send, you would use $_POST['auth_name'] for example, to get the authors penname!
Example PHP script -
// Database connection stuff here
if (!$_POST){ // Check if it's an actual $_POST or not
die; // Exit the script
}
if(isset($_POST['author'])) // Check if it's an author record. If not set, it's an illegal access
{
$auth_name = $_POST['author'];
// Etc.... Get your variables to include in your database
// Be sure to initialize your variables and check they are what they should be!
// You would do the same thing for articles submissions. Check if $_POST['articles'] is set first,
// then create your variables and add the info to your database
}