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Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage

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Graham Hobbs wrote:

> I am at PHP 101 level.

Pardon my saying so, but you are at *Internet* 101 level.

> I have a webpage that asks a user to enter their name in one box, email
> address in another and click send. That's works OK (almost):-).
> 
> I also have created an empty Mailing list 'List-B' in my Mozilla
> Thunderbird to which I want to automatically add the email addresses
> sent from the webpage.

Not reasonably possible.  *Such* a "Mailing list" is maintained client-side.  
The Web application processing the user input runs server-side.  Also be 
sure that you have users confirm from their e-mail accounts that they really 
want to subscribe (opt-in).
 
You appear to have a misconception of the term “mailing list” and its 
implementation.  What you can maintain in e-mail clients is a distribution 
list which is something else.  Look up those terms.

> When the page gets back to my PHP pgm, can it add the email address to

pgm?

> my mailing list without manual intervention?

Only if you are maintaining the mailing list or distribution list server-
side.

> Am not fond of mixing languages, etc so a pure PHP solution would be
> appreciated unless design wise not clever.

AFAIK the most common mailing list management software, Majordomo, is 
written in Perl.
  
> Have googled, not found anything closely relevant.

“PHP mailing list” yields a lot of relevant results among the 161'000'000 
hits.  Indeed, the first hit, ListMessenger, is relevant already.


PointedEars
-- 
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-16 23:26 -0400
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-16 23:42 -0400
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-04-17 09:34 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-17 10:49 +0000
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-17 13:56 +0100
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-17 11:15 -0400
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-17 22:00 +0200
  Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-17 16:49 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2014-04-18 08:10 +0200
    Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-18 21:52 -0400
      Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2014-04-19 11:26 -0700
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-04-19 15:15 -0400
          Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-21 21:29 +0200
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-19 20:58 +0000
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-19 20:58 +0000
        Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> - 2014-04-19 21:26 -0400
          Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-19 21:38 -0400

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