help with a php mailing list

supercrewd · 22 Jul 2007 at 21:01

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

furnace · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:36

I'm not sure what you mean by "HTML Based"..?

Is this pretty much what you mean?

User signs up to mailing list
Users email goes into mysql database
Admin visits .php page and fills in a form with the newsletter contents
Newsletter is sent out to each user in mysql database
Optionally, user visits another .php page and enters email address, which removes their address from the database

Zaphan58 · 22 Jul 2007 at 23:16

If you want a pre-built one I have used this one before which was pretty customisable and did a good job.

http://www.phplist.com/

supercrewd · 23 Jul 2007 at 17:26

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