Problem

You want to allow your readers to sign up to receive e-mail notifications.

Solution

Place a notification subscription form in your layout.

Discussion

Movable Type includes the ability to easily send an email notification to readers to alert them of new posts.

You can use the mt-add-notify.cgi script, along with a small HTML form in your templates, to provide simple subscription services to readers.

mt-add-notify.cgi allows readers to subscribe to and unsubscribe from a weblog's notifications list after a confirmation step to check that the email address is valid.

Prior to version 3.0D, this script only handled subscriptions, hence the "add" in the name. If it bothers you, you can rename the file and point your forms at the renamed script.

To make these features available to readers, you will need to insert some HTML code like that in the example below into one or more of your templates:

 <form method="post" action="<$MTCGIPath$>mt-add-notify.cgi">
 <input type="hidden" name="blog_id" value="<$MTBlogID$>" />
 <input type="hidden" name="_redirect" value="<$MTBlogURL$>" />
 <input name="email" size="20" />
 <input type="submit" value="add" />
 </form>