PHP Newsletter/Mailing List ?
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- brian
Anyone know of a simple PHP newsletter/mailing list script? Something for just _one_ newsletter.
- van_rijn0
i built a custom one. kinda cool. can send out html emails.
has the options for sending out to the whole list, or parts of the list. also the admin modify names, email addys etc and can download the list into an excel sheet.
now of course i can not show you it, since it is in a password protected administration of a site. sorry :(
- cosmo0
built one myself, once again on a password protected site.
van_rijn, can your mailing list handle massive email send outs? like 3000 emails up?
- van_rijn0
cosmo.
dunno. i never tried it. most on the lists that use my system are like 200 or so
- cosmo0
yeah anything above 2000 emails slows the mailing list down real slow.
- willhaven0
scriptarchive.com i believe . They have tons of free scripts.
- chimchim0
for any substantial list ... you need to have the server execute php as a background job.
example
exec("php file.php argument &");I have some custom systems that send out 5000+ emails at a time... this usually takes 20 or so minutes. It would be unusable if a user had to wait at the webpage while php hangs sending out tons of emails and giving no real status or percentage of completion.
- chimchim0
back to the topic.
I use this class w/ my system. It's super simple and very powerful.
- wyatt0
A bit buggy but very handy while your my list was under 10,000.
then i paid for http://www.octeth.com/products/o…
- cosmo0
so running it as a cron job would be the best idea.
- wyatt0
yup its pretty necessary to run it as a cron, unless you want to mess your web server/php config all up.
I use windows servers so i just get to call it a 'scheduled task'.. 'cron job' sounds so much tougher.