php unsubscribe e-mail

[lxm]

Hi all,

I want to create an 'Unsubscribe' link in the e-mails I'm sending out. If the person receiving the e-mail no longer wants to receive e-mails from me, they click the 'Unsubscribe' link in the e-mail which will be something like this:

http://www.mysite.com/unsub.php?email=[e-mail]

So upon click this link they will be taken to a page that says, do you wish to stop receiving these e-mails - Yes / No?

When the user clicks 'Yes', I need to save the e-mail address from the link in a text file.

Could anyone tell me how to do this using php?

Thanks,

Laura

[daredevil14]

if the user clicks on "Yes" ( assuming that you're doing this confirmation script with Javascript )... and his/her email address is still in the url, you can do something like :

<?php

$email = $_GET["email"];
$conn = fopen("emails.txt","a") or exit("Error In Opening The File!!");
fwrite($conn,$email."\n");
fclose($conn)

?>

[yorktown]

Also check www.PHPlist.com - Its a pretty good engine.

<arc

[lxm]

thanks daredevil what code would i use to take the e-mail address from one page to the next using php?

[Xager]

You can pretty much use 2 ways to transfer data easily (ie not writing to a DB or a file), the first and most commonly used is $SESSION['name'] and second you can use the url: http://www.example.com/test.php?email=[e-mail] and do a $GET['email'] in test.php