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11-13-2006, 09:27 PM
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How do I create a page with simple submission fields for name, address, email, phone number etc information for people to sign up for my site's newsletter? If you don't have time to write out instructions, could you link me to a how-to page or a tutorial site? I can't seem to find any in my 30 mins of research. Thanks! Dave |
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11-13-2006, 09:49 PM
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You're probably better going with a 3rd party newsletter provider. In order to do this on your own, you need: 1) The HTML front-end--or the actual boxes your readers type their information into. 2) The PHP backend which takes that information entered via HTML and submits it into some sort of database which contains all the information regarding your subscribers. 3) Another PHP script which then sends the newsletter out to everyone who has subscribed. That said, I don't have any recommendations for 3rd party newsletter providers. Anyone else? |
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11-13-2006, 10:02 PM
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Here's a bunch of info from W3Schools.com... Personally, I learned from cracking open a book and plugging away at the examples, but I don't see why this shouldn't help. If you'd rather wait, I can build a simple mailing list system, but I have limited time for a little while... it might be faster to do it yourself.  HTML page that is specific to forms: HTML Forms and Input Information specific to PHP handling forms: PHP Forms PHP file Input/Output (if you are storing the information independent of a database): PHP File PHP MySQL info (lots of info, but in the long run, it's easier than using a flat file): PHP MySQL Introduction And finally, mailing using PHP: PHP Mail Functions |
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11-13-2006, 11:54 PM
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I recently tried out PHP Form Wizard and it's really great if you have no experience with forms which it sounds like you don't! (I do, but I had always used cgi forms in the past and wanted to try a PHP one.)
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11-14-2006, 02:51 AM
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