Email & CGI bin

[Yaz]

Hi Everybody!

I've added an email field on my page which I want visitors to submit their email address through so that I can keep them updated on my site's happenings. My problem is that I'm not sure how to code it so that when they hit "submit", it goes directly to my webmail address of fans@andromedasound.com. I checked my file manager in cPanel and found that the path to my cgi-bin is public_html/cgi-bin, but there's nothing in the cgi-bin. That's as far as I've gotten because I don't know what's next. Thanks in advance for your help.

~Yaz

[Cirtex Admin]

Hi

Sound's like you need a newsletter system?
Take a look at http://www.phplist.com/
Read through documentations on installation and also check out the demos ;)

Cheers and have fun

[Yaz]

Thanks, Admin! I'll check it out.

[Yaz]

Hi Admin,
Actually, I don't want a newsletter, per se. I just want to be able to email those who've signed up about changes to my site. I see there's a "mailing list" in my cPanel, but I don't see any instructions or tutorials on it's use and capabilities.

[Cirtex Admin]

Hi

There are simple ways to do this, do you want to just save a list of email addresses in a notepad file on your computer, then email them together when needed? I have a simple script for that

[Yaz]

Yes. That is all that I need, really.

[Cirtex Admin]

Here it is attached, a simple email script, make sure its hidden somewhere so no hacker/spammer finds it to use it for bad means.

Cheers

[Yaz]

Thanks, Admin!

I don't mean to sound like such a newbie, but need some direction on setting this up. Thanks in advance!

[Josh]

I think that script is to send E-mails out, I think Yaz is wanting a way of collecting the email addresses first (e.g. form where users can add there email).

Like this? http://www.phptutorial.info/scripts/mailinglist/emaillist.php
How-To: http://www.phptutorial.info/scripts/mailinglist/index.php

or vListLite http://www.beanbug.net/Scripts/vListLite%201.1.zip looks a little more advance

[Cirtex Admin]

Hi

Yes the mailer script I attached above is simple mailing list script but you have to have a mailing list saved on your own PC first, in the format of one email address per line, then jsut copy paste it into the mailer script and it'll work fine ;)

[please don't abuse the script for spamming though]

Cheers

[Yaz]

Josh, that is exactly what I need. Thanks for the information! :adore:

Admin: Don't worry, that's not my thing. I can't stand being spammed, myself!

[Josh]

No problemo :top: