Installation is simple.
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1. Change the "$catch" variable in the code below to reflect the name parameter you would like to parse/ grab from the URL.  e.g. for Aweber you would change 

$catch = "name_param";

to 

$catch = "name";

as the variable that carries a persons name is "name"

2. Change the $default_message variable.  This should reflect what you would like to be displayed on your page when somone comes to your page without the name variable you defined in 1 above in the URL or where the name variable is nul.

3. put the code that lies between the *********** and *************** below into the location on your page that you would like to show the visitors name.

4. Ensure that the page which you put the scrip into is parsed through PHP so that the script runs.  If your page file name is not already suffixed with ".php" then you can parse normal html pages through PHP by putting the following line of code into your .htaccess file:


AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html




Here is the code to add into your page to personalize your page.

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<?

$default_message="friend";
// change "name_param" to the name of the parameter that you want to parse
$catch = "name_param";
$name = urldecode($_GET[$catch]); if($name=='' || !isset($name)) $name = urldecode($_POST[$catch]);

if(!isset($name)||$name=="") {
    printf("%s",ucwords($default_message));
} else {
    //if(preg_match("/^([^s]+)/i",$name,$m)){
    if(preg_match("/^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/i",$name,$m)){
        printf("%s",ucwords($m[0]));
    } else {
        printf("%s",ucwords($name));
    };
};
echo "";

?>

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