Best way to do this? - PHP Form then access specific content

[freshwes]

Hey guys, I have a fairly basic question. The site I'm building has a lot of professional whitepapers that we want to share with users, but we want to collect their info first.

We are trying to do the following:

1. User clicks link for specific document
2. User is then requested to fill out a form
3. User then is taken to the document

I believe the process would work like this:

1. Clicks link, parameter like document ID is passed through the form
2. User fills out form
3. Parameter is then checked using a PHP switch statement where the correct document URL is given

Is #3 accurate?

Thank you

[kwikweb]

You might want to consider using something like an e-mail contact manager for this such as Aweber (http://www.aweber.com/?360193).
This contact manager is acutually specifically designed for what you are talking about and much more.
It can be a great resource to collect e-mail opt-ins from the forms that the users are filling out on your forms and you can have the whitepaper e-mailed to them. Whats even better is that since they are considered an opt-in from your offer that they filled out, you have the added advantage of tracking them and then perhaps even upselling to them in the future via an e-mail marketing campaign.

Could be a very profitable venture.