email signup form

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Good AFternoon,

I was wondering what is the simplest way to have an email submit form?

“sign up for monthly specials”
then a space for an email address then submit.

would that be a basic php form?

I would like to build an email list from that to send out specials, etc.

Thanks for any suggestions

J

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would that be a basic php form?

Yup - PHPFF action with just an email address field and a Submit button will do it.

You will have to collate email addresses yourself that way.

There are other options - some hosting services provide a sign up service.

David

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MailChimp. Get a FREE account, add the bit of JavaScript they give you
to your page with either a positioned Markup Item (nothing selected,
then Insert / Markup Item from the main menu) or an inline instance of
CrowBar, and you’re done.

They will manage the list for you, let you send up to 10,000 messages
a month (message * list member = messages), and take care of all the
scary legal niceties like bounce removal and unsubscribe. Yes, you can
use a tiny copy of PHP Feedback Form for this, but then you get to
field each request as a new message to some address, and manually take
care of any unsubscribe requests – not worth the effort.

Walter

On May 29, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good AFternoon,

I was wondering what is the simplest way to have an email submit form?

“sign up for monthly specials”
then a space for an email address then submit.

would that be a basic php form?

I would like to build an email list from that to send out specials,
etc.

Thanks for any suggestions

J

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Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

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Thank you Walter and David!

I will look and play with all suggestions

J
On May 29, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Walter Davis wrote:

MailChimp. Get a FREE account, add the bit of JavaScript they give you to your page with either a positioned Markup Item (nothing selected, then Insert / Markup Item from the main menu) or an inline instance of CrowBar, and you’re done.

They will manage the list for you, let you send up to 10,000 messages a month (message * list member = messages), and take care of all the scary legal niceties like bounce removal and unsubscribe. Yes, you can use a tiny copy of PHP Feedback Form for this, but then you get to field each request as a new message to some address, and manually take care of any unsubscribe requests – not worth the effort.

Walter

On May 29, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good AFternoon,

I was wondering what is the simplest way to have an email submit form?

“sign up for monthly specials”
then a space for an email address then submit.

would that be a basic php form?

I would like to build an email list from that to send out specials, etc.

Thanks for any suggestions

J

freewaytalk mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

freewaytalk mailing list
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Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

freewaytalk mailing list
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Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options