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  • 30-11-2005 9:13pm
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    dbnavan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I want to put on my website some way for people to 'submit the email address' it is a fuction on many websites now, but from what i understand the server must support databases? can anyone clarify? is there an external way around this.

    Thanks
    D


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    damalo
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭damalo


    Hi,

    Presume you are referring to collecting email addresses for example for a newsletter?

    You need some sort of scripting language such as PHP/Perl/ASP to grab the email address and a database to store them in. If you dont have a database you could use a flatfile although its almost as easy to move to a host with a database than working with flatfiles.

    For a simple PHP based tutorial see (the first part is most relevant):

    http://www.plus2net.com/articles/php_newsletter_script.php

    Hope this helps,

    D

    Edit: in addition to this you could just use the mail() function in PHP to email yourself the email address of the person so you can add it to a database on your own local machine


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    dbnavan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭dbnavan


    Thank you that helps.

    D


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