HEllo 2 question

bigray

Ok, My first question is where can i find a tutorial on how to make a news subscriber for my site where someone put their email in and it sends me it so i can send everyone news updates on my site?

My other question is this seems a little harder, I'm trying to make something in php where all my images and links can change every week or 24hrs by its self is it possible to do that in php because i hate updating my site

if this is possible id appreciate it a lot from all you guys 😃

dalecosp

Hmm, on the second issue, I have a set of 'teasers' that change with every page load. Basically, they are the first paragraph or so of some various articles I've written, and they are stored in their own directory as numbered files (e.g. 1.html, 2.html, etc). Here's the code:

        <? srand (microtime()*1000000);
          $n=abs(rand(1,6));
        include "teasers/$n.html";
        ?>

Another thing I've done is a tasteless scrolling marquee. However, the content is date-based:

<?
$Date=date("F d");

if (($Date == "December 26") || ($Date == "December 27")) {
        $Marquee="12-24-02:  Our office will be ".
"closed Thursday and Friday for the Christmas holiday..."; }
elseif ($Date == "February 17") { $Marquee="Our offices are closed for the ".
"President's Day Holiday...see \"Contact Us\", above";
elseif ($Date == "February 14") { $Marquee="We LUVS our customers..."; }
elseif ($Date == "March 17") { $Marquee="<font color=green>Beyond bonnie banks ".
"and beyond bonnie braes, where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond"; }
else { $Marquee="February 24th---1:02 a.m. --- Virus Alert, WORM_LOVGATE.C ".
"--- TREND Micro issues YELLOW ALERT....";}
echo $Marquee;

I've not answered you exactly, I realize. But what you're wanting to do isn't exactly hard, you just won't be able to hack it together in a hour, most likely. Sit down and plan a bit first would be my advice...Good Luck!

bigray

Thanks a lot, so on my first question you dont know how to do that ok?

On the second codeing u sent me i can use that for every link and pictures just add more stuff in their and it well work? if you have aim plz msg me at nickopray

Gargouil

for your first question

you simply have to use the mail function

after the user submited the form for news registration
do a mail() that send you new member email

or an other way is to add it directly in a database
then when you want to send news you scan the database to get email then you send with emails in bcc

bigray

can you write out the codeing for me for doing that? plz

epimeth

to answer your first question...

its a bit more involved than you would want it to be, but really its quite simple when you break it up.

First, you need some sort of database to keep your subscribers.

It could be as simple as a text file which you add to every time a user subscribes. This would be done using the filesystem functions.
Or you could use a real database. Some examples include access, oracle, SQL Server, and mySQL.

if you have ms office, you probably already have access (if not installed, then on the CD)... Oracle and SQL Server will burn a large hole in your pocket... mySQL is open-source and free!
Get it here

and best of all, some nice people at phpMyAdmin.net created a very nice way to administer mySQL databases, also for free. The great thing about it is that even if you don't know any SQL scripting, every time you edit or access the database, they show you the exact SQL script they used to do what you did.

once you have those two things installed, you simply have to make a form which takes their name and email (and any other info you want) and submits it to a page that runs a script that adds that info into the database.

Then, every time you want to send the newsletter, you simply run a script that gets everybody's email from the database and mails the newsletter to them using the mail() function in php.

It sounds complicated, but if you do it step by step, you'll find its really quite simple.

bigray

i get everything but im stuck on gettins the mail function to send to everybodys email how would i do that?

bigray

and can u be nice enough to write the whole script for me i already know the phpymadmin part can u just write the php part for me? thanks