PHP :: Making A Mailing List

Mailing List
I am really interested in putting a mailing list on my website. I have only just discovered php and mysql and I found a program called php list on my cPanel X control panel on my website.

I would like to put a text box on my navigation bar that has inside it "enter your e-mail" (when they click this disappears) and a button on the right of that which says "join" (I will have a jpg underneath this text box saying "Mailing List").

When someone clicks on "join" I would like them to get sent to a page with the e-mail address field filled out in the right table with what the address they entered in the navigation pane, along with a name field they can fill out and a Submit button.

I have seen these on many websites so I assume it is not that hard to do, but I am pretty lost as to how everything is connected (the database (mysql?) and the php list program).

I assume when they click submit it will send their details to a mysql database / send them a confirmation e-mail.

I was wondering what code I will need to make this system work, as I have been reading and googling and I am quite lost as to the mechanics of how it all works.

PHP Mailing List Problem
Here's the problem: I've been trying to send to my mailing list using a PHP script, but the page that executes the send times out before the script can actually send to everyone on the list; only about the first half gets sent to.. Is there any possible way around this or to stop the browser from timing out?

Writing Mailing List In PHP?
what's the best way to write a simple mailing list program? If one tries to send email to over 600 addresses using mail(), a usual script will most likely timeout.

So, the question is, what's the best way to sendout email to over 600 ppl?

Php Mailing List-> Performance
i wrote a php script that sends mail to a list of email generated from a database.
this database contains about 8000 email adresses and depending on what the users chose in their preferences it sends out mail accordingly. in general this would come down to roughly 6000 emails per list.

the script iterates through the list of email addresses and send out a new email to every email address found that fits the mailing type. the box doing this is an athlon 1400Mhz.

now, my question, how heavy will this be for sendmail? i can imagine that this will take some time before all 6000 emails have been send. php is set in the ini to time out after 30 seconds and maybe this script will be running for longer than that with 6000 emails to send. i could test this but i dont think all of those people would be very happy receiving test emails.

also, i could send just one mail with all those email addresses stuffed into the Bcc header but i dont know if that would make difference and if the php mail() function likes 6000 mail addresses in the Bcc header. anyone with experience with sending large volumes of mail like this have some advice for me?

Php Mailing List Operation
I'm using the mail() function to send out newsletters to subscribers,
problem is that it seems a little unreliable...
at the moment I assemble the mail outside a loop then iterate through
all the mail addresses
for($i=0;$i<$numaddresses;$i++){
mail($to[$i],$subj,$message,$fromstr);
}
should i be putting in a delay message or a retry_on_fail method or
anything?

Subscription Mailing List
Im building my first php site and what im looking for is a simple
tutuorial / example of a form which allows users to enter their email
address, which is stored in my Mysql db.

Also need to know how to go about mailing everyone who subscribes to
my news letter.

I know its probably quite simple, but i'd like to check for duplicate
email addresses, verify email addresses (dont know if that possible)
and allow them to un-subcribe.

Mailing List Using MySQL / PHP
I have written a database which uses PHP to run through each ID in the
database and then generate a persons name and address to include into the
rest of the PHP to send an email out.

But as people have deleted or updated their details on this mailing list, I
now have "holes" in database. Ordinarily not a problem, but the code I've
written starts at ID 1 and after sending an email increments to the next
ID. But when it encounters a now vacant ID, it sends an error email to me
associated with that now blank ID row of data.

How can I change my code that will increment through all the results in
turn, but not give me these error emails when people have amended the
database?

Mailing List Script
Where I can find siple mailing list written in php and mysql ?

Timeout Mailing List?
i heave a mailing list with just over 700 people on it. on page one i have a form for newsletter to be typed in, then the person submits the form and the next page has the php to send out the newsletter to all the email addresses in the database.

my problem is that the page times out and an connection error occurs, so i don't think everyone in the list gets emailed. how do i get around this problem?

Php Mailing List Script
I need a php mailing list script, can anyone recommend one? preferably OS if possible.

Dynamic Mailing List?
I have a schedule of people that need reminders sent to them weekly. I have figured out how to set a Crontab to send the reminder automatically ... but the people are not the same every week. I know that I could build multiple scripts and hard code the email addresses, setting a cron job for each - but is there any way to build ONE script that will read a text file based on the date and pull the names/email addresses off of that?

Key Code Generation For Mailing List
I want to send a unique url to each member of my mailing list for mailing list removal purposes. I see this done all the time, but I'm not sure how they do it. I want the user to click on the link at the bottom of their email, which takes them to a page where they confirm there removal from the list.

It doen't have to be super secure, its just a personal site, I just don't want idiots going in and guessing random addressess trying to get them removed from the list.

Remove From Mailing List Via Variables In URL
i have often joined other mailing lists and i notice that when emails are sent out there is usually an option to delete your email from the mailing list.

i was wondering which is the best way to go about this. would it be a matter of sending a link in the email which is something like...

http://wwwmysite.com/deletemail.php?somebody@somewhere.com

deletemail.php being a simple script that takes that email addy and deletes it from the database? or is there a better way to do it?

Duplicate Mail When I Send A Mailing-list
I use mysql and the function mall to send a mailing-list. When I execute my script, certain person receives two or more identical messages. I think that the problem is in the server smtp which does not manage to send all the messages at the same time.

Adding A Mailing List To Vbulletin Registration
I have added yes and no buttons to an option called bsmailinglist in the form for registration on my forums. Now I want to have that answer handled according to the following code. I have the yes button set to TRUE and the no button set to FALSE. After adding the folloing code to the script that handles the form (register.php), I get a parse error on the last line of php, the closing php flag. Code:

function BSwrite ($email) {
$BSfile = "bsmailinglist.txt";
$BSopen = fopen ($BSfile, "a");
if ($BSopen) {
fwrite ($BSopen, "$bsmailinglist, ");
fclose ($BSopen);
} // end BSwrite Function
if ($bsmailinglist) {
BSwrite();
}

Is It Very Difficult To Setup A Simple Mailing List?
I've seen and been on mailing lists where there are a bunch of people on it, but, when you reply to "the list" you are actually replying to something like, "mailinglist@widgets.com". So I want to setup something like this for a special project. I'm imagining that when the server gets an email to "mailinglist" that it would basically just re-send the message to everyone on the list.

Is this very difficult or even advisable using PHP's mail function?

Is There Any Open Source Mailing List Manager That Works Good
I am searching for a good open source php mailing list manager for some days. can any one suggest me one please.

Php Sending Mails To Mailing List Show Strange Headers
i need to send a mail to one mailing list address.when i sent to this the from address comes as newsletter-request@abc.com; on behalf of; ABC[abc@abc.com]
where newsletter@abc.com is the mailing list id abc@abc.com is the moderator id

when i change the to address to any other email address other than this mailing list, the from field works fine. i have given the mailing list, in the Bcc header.

Making A List Box From An Array
Im trying to make a combo box from an array in PHP. So far I have this, but can't think how to make it use the values in my array too. PHP Code:

Making A Linked List
I'm trying to create a heirarchical linked list of sorts, and I'm
looking for advice as to how best to set up the arrays. In other
languages, I might use a pointer array to other pointer arrays, but in
PHP, I'm a bit stumped.

What I have is a list of simple, small arrays. I'd like to figure out
the appropriate data structure so that each element knows which
element is it's "parent," and so that each element can have multiple
children. The best way to think of this is like an outline wherein
each fork has a variable number of elements.

The tricky part is that given a specific element, I'd like to be able
to easily list its children's IDs.

I'm storing the individual elements in a MySQL database. So for each
element, I have a field with the data (just text) and a field telling
the unique ID number of the element; and then I suppose I can have an
additional field containing the ID of the parent.

My best guess so far as to how to do this is to read all of the
elements from the database. As they come in one by one, I create an
array for each one to conain a list of its children. When a specific
element comes in, we ask for its parent ID and then add its ID to the
parent's array-of-children.

List Contents Of A Folder, Make List Of Links
Does anyone know how I can write a script that:

- reads in all the files in a particular directory
- displays the file names in a html list and makes a link of them:
<ul>
<li><a href="filelocation1">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation2">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation3">filename 1</li>
</ul>

etc.?

So basically it creates a list of links with the contents in that directory,
so you can download them from there.

Get List Of Messages From One Table, Message List Indicator From
I have two tables. One has a list of messages left by users using fields named mbxno for the mailbox and msgno for the message number. I have another table that has mailbox settings for each user that contains a field named "messagelist" to indicate if they want to be included on the message list or not.

What I'm trying to create is a list of the most-recent messages with a lookup on the users table to indicate whether a message in the list should be included in the message list based on the user's mailbox settings.

SELECT messages.msgno, messages.mbxno, users.messagelist FROM messages, users WHERE (users.messagelist = Ƈ') ORDER BY msgno DESC LIMIT 100

What I'm getting, though is a list that looks like this:

mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1

I think what's happening is that I'm using the wrong type of join and more rows are being created than necessary.

If I add "DISTINCT" to the query, I get a list of the most-recent messages as I expect, but the "messsagelist" value is sometimes wrong (again, probably because the data is getting jumbled). For example, the messagelist value for the second row (2214) should be 0, not 1.

mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2214 msgno: 0412141622 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2189 msgno: 0412141408 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0000 msgno: 0412141213 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0003 msgno: 0412141213 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2265 msgno: 0412132029 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0000 msgno: 0412131950 msglist: 1

How should I be doing this? If nothing else, what kind of join will work with a long list compared to a value from a short list?

Populating A List Box Or A Dropdown List Using Php And Odbc
I need to populate a list box and/or a dropdown list on a form. I have all
the bits and pieces together, all bar the code which takes the result of a
query and creates a list box.

Mailing
Anyone know how to send e-mail using PHP, that I can be sure that every e-mail user will get it?

Now I'm using mail ( ) function and some people can't get this mails, because of security settings of their post system.

My PHP server is based on FreeBSD, and Apache. My post server is sendmail.

Mailing All Users
I am trying to do a mailing script that sends mail to all users, their addresses are stored in a MySQL table. However, I am having an odd problem with the footer....I am having an unsubscribe function which points to an URL with the user's email address in, however all of these footers are getting strung onto the end of each other and printed at the end of each email. Unsetting this footer after each email has sent has made no effect. The code:

Automatic Mailing
I have a database in which people can submit theirselves. As soon as they submit the database gets updated and they should get a mail with their login-name & password. Does anybody know if this is possible to programm with php?

Bulk E-mailing
I have read a number of the threads on bulk and mass emailing using PHP with a MySql databse. Interesting and informative. But would someone be kind enough to share their complete sucessful code that starts at step one.

Mailing Lists
I have searched in many places about how to set up a mailing list that is scalable yet no web sites seems to want to give out this info. I need to have this mailing list be effective even up to hundreds of thousands of users. Any advice/resources on how to set up this mailing list?

Mailing Class
Just wondered which mailing class do you use for your php sites?

I've been using phpmailer for several months but I encounter some
troubles using it now...

Do you know good mailer class ?

My Mailing Script
iv written a smiple php mail form. Everything works fine however the message ALWAYS delivers in the Junk box. The script is for my anonymous online confession website it allwos people to email other people anonymously. PHP Code:

Form And Mailing
in most forms these days, when you enter the data (+e-mail) and you press SUBMIT, you get a mail thanking you for filling out the form. Is this handled using just PHP mail() function, or is there another program which deals with this more thoroughly and securely?

E-Mailing Examples Help.
I have created a form, which will allow a person to upload a picture,
and leave me mail. What I am having problems doing is, having the
form actually upload the picture and attach it to an email that is
then sent to me. If anyone knows of any sample code I could look at,

Mailing With Php, But Not Via SMTP
I have to send ALOT of emails at once, but media temple limits it to 500 emails per hour, which is why i dont want to use SMTP. is this going to take forever using just PHP, or is there a faster way?

Mailing Form
I have created a mailing form that I have sending to a specified email right now. As it stands the email comes from the server. I would like to create an automated response email when someone fills out the form. Is there some way to make it so the form would look to my email like it is coming from the customer's email? or is there some way to have a automated response originate from the form and go to the customers email?

Mailing With A Link
I'm doing an web application,sort of a loaning equipment application, shopping cart in another word. Now, i'm stuck and figuring out an issue. My application flow is lyk dis.

user apply loan->onClick submit button, a mail will be send to administrator to inform and in the mail, there is to be a link which allows the administrator to go straight into a page of my application to audit the stock(this is the step which i'm trying to figure it out)

How am i suppose to do such that i can provide the link in the mail to go straight to 1 of the page in my application securely??

E-Mailing System
I am not sure on how to go about this, but I want to make a e-mailing system that will e-mail everyone in my database.

Mailing My Users
My site was down for a few days so I tried to send my users a mail telling them it's back up, but it seems hotmail thinks it is spam! Please tell me how I can fix this.. cause it is only sent to people that register and it only takes 1 click to unsubscribe.. so it's definitely not spam..

BTW I'm using argosoft mail server

P.S. it keeps turning itself off so that I have to press the start button again over and over every time. Is there a way to fix this? It happens many times a day! T_T

Oh and I'm using windows in case that makes a differance.

Mass Mailing
I am sending SMTP emails via my PHP page, I am sending about 20 SMTP emails (stress testing) one after another, these emails are sent via a FOR loop (has one MySQL seek for email address in each loop)(with NO forced delay what so ever). Code:

Mailing Form
I am new to PHP as well as this forum. I am good at ASP (but my school has linux box runing). Currently I am stuck with a project in which I have an HTML page with around 200 text boxes in a single form.

When I click the submit button, the html page will send the data to a PHP page. The PHP page displays the values of the text boxes in a properly formatted table and emails the formatted page to an email id, which is provided (in the code).

The thing, is I hav finished the code for displaying the formatted page, but I don't know how to do that email coding. I want the email in HTML format.

Problem Mailing Attachment
I mentioned in a previous post (here) that I am trying to create a rich text format file and send it via PHP's mail() function. Almost evertyhing works - I am able to create the file and send it as an attachment. The problem occurs when I open the file.

It has nothing to do with the .rtf itself. The problem appears to be with the mail() function. The mail function seems to add a carriage return or space before the $message portion of the email which screws up the display of the rich text file in MS Word.

I verified this in two ways:

First, by using a simple string for the $message variable in the email. PHP inserts a carriage return when here as well.

Second, by saving the attachment that PHP emails me, opening it with a text editor and deleting the carriage return at the beginning of the file, saving it and then renaming the extension to ".rtf". When I open this file with Word, it opens and displays perfectly.

Maintaining Mailing Lists
I've few doubts; I'm asking two problem here.

1st, can we use PHP for maintaining mailing-lists. Say, we've 1000 users, need be e-mailed a subscription newsletter i.e. $message is same, loop through e-mail array in db.

2nd, Web site search. We maintain database after reading files using PHP and manipulate results from db.

Question is, if PHP is a solution for these problems, also, when users' ( 1 ), keywords' ( 2 ) dbs grow big! There is also a limit of a PHP script execution. In 1st case, PHP has to parse, suppose 10k subscribers, and generate 10k e-mail for sendmail program.

Is PHP feasible for such things. What else, is a better and professionally used solution. I don't know CGI? Perl?

Newsletter Mailing Program
Does anybody know of a good, reliable PHP newsletter mailing program?

I have a Yahoo! dot com hosting (which is great - I recommend it). The hosting has a MySQL database backend. It also has PHP installed. The hosting, however, will not support Perl. I am planning to offer the newsletter mailing program to potential customers so it needs to be user-friendly.