Updating a record after form submission

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Hi, so I have a form - but after submission when I get the confirmation page, I would like to add a "subscribe to our newsletter" button.

I have looked at a bunch of other posts mentioning sessions, and think I could probably get something working bringing the email address into the confirmation page, in a second form. Probably hiding the fields so it just has the submit button.

But I'm thinking this would give an extra record in my database (or a separate table).

It would be really useful if I could get a new field for newsletter signups into the same record which has just been submitted.

The multi-page form methods like mentioned here don't work for me because the newsletter signup I want to be optional - people can choose to click a button for it on the confirmation page, or they can leave the page and continue browsing. The main form's data has to be submitted on the first page.

I hope this makes sense, I am wondering if anyone has any ideas how I could go about this?



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Hi J,
I would use an ajax request to a database after the user checks a subscribe checkbox on your form. You may want to keep the checkbox hidden until all the data on the form that you need for subscription details is filled in.
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