javascript? php? simple mailing list database?

[moscarda]

thanks a million dj, looking at tomy's code helped a lot. thank you too, tomy.

i guess the only problem now is the remaining commas when someone leaves. although i doubt it would be a problem for most mail clients, i'm sure they'd just skip over it.

dj, you should maybe submit this script to dd? i'm sure it is something a lot of people will end up using, and you deserve your due credit. good luck with graduation man, and thanks again.

[djr33]

Yeah, I'll submit when I'm done with it.
The remaining commas aren't that hard to get rid of.... just haven't thought of a great way to do it yet.

Any other bugs before it's done?

[tomyknoker]

I agree dj you have to submit this it's a work of art!

Ok have been playing around with it and found some things...

If the user is stupid and types a whole heap of spaces in then the email it still gets submitted, but adds the spaces http://www.curiousclothing.com/emails.txt, I am still trying to get other thing to work... If they put just antyhing below 4 spaces and submit they don't get any error... If they put over that they do get the error... I realise no one will probably do this but I guess it's better to have it perfect...

Also eventually when the error does come up and it tells them to please add a vaild email, the alert box still pops up...

I've updated it all in the txt file...

[djr33]

Ok. I'll try to figure that stuff out.
The alert is possible to control; don't worry.

As for the spaces thing... I think I did it in the wrong order. It should allow
ANY input, not just input over 4, then mark anything under 4 characters as an invalid email. That's easy to fix.

[tomyknoker]

still wasn't sure which mail tag to change also... thats from 2 pages back...

[djr33]

Change the current line with mail(.....); to:

    if ($email != "") mail("tom@curiousclothing.com", "Newsletter Nofication", "This message has been automatically generated to inform you that $email has chosen to $choice the newsletter.", "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion());

This isn't a perfect solution, though, as it will fail if the user entered spaces, like you were doing before. Use that for now.

I'll fix it when I fix the rest.

[Twey]

trim()

[tomyknoker]

Change the current line with mail(.....); to:

    if ($email != "") mail("tom@curiousclothing.com", "Newsletter Nofication", "This message has been automatically generated to inform you that $email has chosen to $choice the newsletter.", "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion());

This isn't a perfect solution, though, as it will fail if the user entered spaces, like you were doing before. Use that for now.

I'll fix it when I fix the rest.

Thanks dj ok have added the new code...

[tomyknoker]

Also is it complicated to do what this page does with there subscribe text box... http://www.vantageous.com/index.html, see how it has "your@email.com" then when you click it dissappears and re-appears if you click out of it?

[djr33]

That's javascript, I think.

<input type="text" value="your@email.com" onFocus="this.value='';" onBlur="this.value='your@email.com';">


Hehe, that works. Wow. And I don't even know JS.... just guessed. That was fun