help with a php mailing list

[supercrewd]

Hey all.

Im currently trying to research various methods that can be used to create a mailing list using php and mysql, what im wanting is a admin control panel that will let the user (me) create a html based mailing list, and then use php to retrieve the emails from the mysql database and send the mailing list out.

The sending the emails (mailing list) is rather straight forward but im having difficulties in finding the best method of creating the html based mailing list, anyone tried anything like this before?

Also, whats the best way off allowing html tags to be input in a form?

Thanks for any assistence

 

[supercrewd]

ahh that php list looks like it can do the job, what i meant by html based is that i know you can use the php mail to send emails out, but i wanted something that would allow for html tags to be included in the email, so i can link to images etc.

Thanks
chris