Hi there I want to add a mailing list form to my website. If I want to send a message to all my subscribers, how does it work? Have a look at this example wufoo, do I have to input all those email addresses to a mailing list in my Cpanel? Is that how it works? Many thanks in advance CHEERS
Sites such as wufoo are for people who have very little knowledge in web programming. It pretty does everything for you, input every email address, then just send them a message through that site Your alternative is to use PHP+mySQL+mail(). Mailing list isn't that complex. Here's how it works in a nutshell: the user enter his/her email address, it gets stored in the database. If you wanna email them, the PHP script will go into the database and grab those emails, it will then go in a loop and use the mail() function to send one at a time
Hi Rainulf, This is the very reason why I'm asking "How does it work" lol. I sort of understand, but then you lost me on the "loop and use the mail() function to send one at a time" . Well, I still need to find out how to create a mailing list form. Is it the same as requesting for your email address in a contact form e.g. email: name@name.com?
In programming, looping is a routine that your program goes into in circle until a condition is met (for loop, if, while, do...) . If you don't understand what a loop is, the chances of you rolling your very own mailing list is zero. I would suggest you use one of the available services out there. But if you still want to put one together, get a friend to help or let us know. Good luck
Hi helen, I don't know how to use the loop, if, while. I got a programmer to look into this and got it working. Thanks guys.