surf club php help

juju

Hi,
I am trying to build a simple website for a surf group.
the idea is to have a one classical page to register and become a member of the website (first & last name, password, city, email)
and one page (not secured) with a simple form where you can send an email to the whole database of email (all the members ) to let them know where and when you are surfing. then they can reply to everyone and agree on time...
form should contain:
username
password
email subject
email body ==>send
the form should check that the user exist and the password is correct and then send the email to the whole database

if anyone has already developed something similar it would be of great help.
Thks

leatherback

search google for 'user registration module php' and 'newletter module php', which should get yu a fair amound of results to start playing with

juju

There is plenty of "ready to use" solutions available. Where I am stuck is in the email function.
How to have a check of the email/password and send an email to the whole database in the same function? without compromising the security of the users (email addresses)

leatherback

Hi juju,

For your next post: Please be as clear as possible with your question. We cannot tell from your first post whether you need help with getting started, or whether there is a silly error in your full script.

In your case:
=> Do yu have a user management & login system in place? If you do, you can just allow validated registered users to run a "select * from people " query, and loop through the results to [man]mail[/man] them all with the new message.

pseudo code:
=> Is a person logged in?
yes => Is a person allowed to send mail (e.g., has this user shown a clean track record)
Yes => Run the query on the database
while $row = fetch result => mail ($row[email], 'subject', 'message')

Note that if you have very many people in the list, this can stall your server, and result in timeouts, and you might need to look into mailer scripts in cgi / perl.