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I am looking for an equivalent script I have seen in several websites, where
people have lines similar to "join our mailing list" with a single form
field for their email address, are there any good recommended scripts
(ideally in php) that does this someone knows of?

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:48:04 GMT, Nospam put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>I am looking for an equivalent script I have seen in several websites, where
>people have lines similar to "join our mailing list" with a single form
>field for their email address, are there any good recommended scripts
>(ideally in php) that does this someone knows of?

At the most basic level, and form-to-email script will do this - just
capture the submitted addresses and manually enter them on your
mailing list. But that's only suitable for very basic and low-volume
applications. With any mailing list consisting of more than a handful
of addresses, the complicated part is list management - verifying
submitted addresses to ensure that no-one adds an address they don't
control and making sure that people can automatically unsubscribe as
easily as they joined.

So what you're looking for isn't the front-end script per se, but a
mailing list management system - which will include the front-end
scripts, but be significantly more than just a front-end. I've not
used any ready-made scripts for that (the only mailing lists that I've
used are custom-built, but Google returns plenty of results such as
those at these locations:

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...st_Management/
http://scripts.filehungry.com/showca...st_management/
http://www.bigwebmaster.com/PHP/Scri...List_Managers/

Mark
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Mark,

Thank you for the URLs, I actually liked one of the scripts and I am
going to give it a try.

Lawk Salih

Mark Goodge wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:48:04 GMT, Nospam put finger to keyboard and
> typed:
>
> >I am looking for an equivalent script I have seen in several websites, where
> >people have lines similar to "join our mailing list" with a single form
> >field for their email address, are there any good recommended scripts
> >(ideally in php) that does this someone knows of?
>
> At the most basic level, and form-to-email script will do this - just
> capture the submitted addresses and manually enter them on your
> mailing list. But that's only suitable for very basic and low-volume
> applications. With any mailing list consisting of more than a handful
> of addresses, the complicated part is list management - verifying
> submitted addresses to ensure that no-one adds an address they don't
> control and making sure that people can automatically unsubscribe as
> easily as they joined.
>
> So what you're looking for isn't the front-end script per se, but a
> mailing list management system - which will include the front-end
> scripts, but be significantly more than just a front-end. I've not
> used any ready-made scripts for that (the only mailing lists that I've
> used are custom-built, but Google returns plenty of results such as
> those at these locations:
>
> http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...st_Management/
> http://scripts.filehungry.com/showca...st_management/
> http://www.bigwebmaster.com/PHP/Scri...List_Managers/
>
> Mark
> --
> Please give me one! http://www.pleasegivemeone.com
> "Shake off your golden shackles, children of time no more"