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Sep 21.2005

I need some help wrapping my head around this. Both the code and setting up the email list and keeping a seperate address book for list members.

I’m looking for a simple, small text box and submit button

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    what is a simple, standard way of doing this?

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    can I keep it mainly HTML?

    • -are these usually just forms sent to your email, then you set up the email list yourself?

    -what’s an easy way to set up a mass email seperate from your normal contacts list?

    any help or tutorial links would be great! I can’t find much on what I’m looking for.

    THANKS!

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    @LeeUSep 21.2005 — A good, free e-mail distrubtion list is [URL=http://mojo.skazat.com/]Dada Mail[/URL]
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    @the_treeSep 21.2005 — - can I keep it mainly HTML?[/QUOTE]No, not at all. HTML doesn't [i]do stuff[/i], it merely describes the structure of a document.

    To process forms you'll need to use Server Side Scripting that will run tasks on your server (PHP,ASP,CF,JSP,CGI) and you'll probably also want a database sytem to store names and adresses (MySQL,MSSQL,Oracle).

    Check with your host to see what they support in the way of server side technologies and come back to us.
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    @QuinnEskimoauthorSep 21.2005 — Well, the server that they're on now (for $25/mo!!) is a Windows server which wont work with Dada Mail (see LeeU's post). I will be trying to get him to switch over to the server company I use for much, much cheaper.

    If he switches I will get CGI support (Perl, Python, PHP3, PHP4, PHP5) and a 100mb MySQL database.

    any advice now?
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    @QuinnEskimoauthorSep 21.2005 — do I need to move this thread to one of the server-side forums?
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    @QuinnEskimoauthorSep 23.2005 — ^^bump^^

    again, if anyone has any experience with this, or tutorial links, they would be greatly appreciated.
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    @SheldonSep 23.2005 — i hve writtten a small mailing list script in php with mySQL, it contains a form where the user enters their name and email, it set's a cookie and add's their name to a database, and then i have another peice of code to send an email to all the people in the database. I could post it if you would like, it might abe a starting point for you to work from.

    Remember it requires PHP and mySQL.

    Sheldon
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    @QuinnEskimoauthorSep 25.2005 — sheldon.

    I would love to see it. I may need a little tutorial, as I've never dealt with mySQL nor PHP (except when it's all laid out for you in a WordPress blog).

    I'm switching my client to a PHP & mySQL ready server asap.

    thanks!
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    @SheldonSep 25.2005 — Cool. When you have changed severs i iwl post the code, ill go trough it now and comment it as much as i can for you.
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    @SheldonSep 25.2005 — Its basic and rough bit it should help, its all commented

    [upl-file uuid=eff4abe2-5ef1-4b01-a617-18cad48420ca size=5kB]mailinglist.zip[/upl-file]
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    @QuinnEskimoauthorSep 26.2005 — :eek: :eek: ? :eek: :eek:




    ...i mean.... ? thanks, man.
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    @SheldonSep 27.2005 — I dont no if it will work with out much configuration but i added alot of comment so iy should be not too hard. Have you tried it yet|
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