Submit e-mail address for mailing list?

Question

I just started a business website. All I want to do is have an area where the reader can type in their email address and click submit so it is emailed to be and i can add it to my mailing list.

Answer 1

Use a server-side script language if your web site allows it. Otherwise, you will have to use a client-side dependent "mailto:" action to get the form info sent to you.



Just use any of the below sites to make the workable form you need:



For making forms:



These are really good online form makers. Just follow the instructions for making it and uploading file(s).



http://www.phpform.org/ (Best-est)

http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/

http://jotform.com/ (WYSIWYG Form Maker)

http://www.thesitewizard.com/

http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/form_mail.shtml

http://emailmeform.com/

http://www.freecontactform.com/

http://www.reconn.us/content/view/12/34/ (Download - Contact Us Script)

http://formsmarts.com/



Your current hosting package must allow SMTP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol ) to work. Otherwise, no email can be sent.



Ron

Answer 2

For this u shud have a form, u can make form easily in dreamweaver. Once u have made the form with one text field and a submit button, u can write the following php code to insert tht email in email list. one more thing, u shud have a database for this purpose coz the email adress is to b stored somewhere. Supose u have created a table in database with the name emailTable. Now we can easily insert data in it.

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php code

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$email = $_POST['NAME OF THE TEXT FIELD'];

$data = MYSQL_QuERY ("Insert into emailtable values ('$email')");

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now u have successfully inserted the email address in ur email table. :)

Answer 3

Just go create one and don't list your old email.