Storing email addresses from my website

[rossmcl]

Hi,

This is probably very easy (but I am a web design amateur).


I use Dreamweaver to create my website. Now what I am trying to do is add functionality so a visitor can enter their email address, so I can store it, and send an email out to them when I make substantial change to the website.

So essentially what I want to do is have a simple form on my website so a user can enter their email address. When they submit the form contents, it should store the email address in a text file. (my hosting is PHP enabled so I can use this if necessary).

My questions are:

1. How do I create the HTML for this in dreamweaver?
ie how do I create the form and submit button?
2. How do I store the email address in the text field into a text file? (using PHP or otherwise).

Many thanks in advance, much appreciated
ross

 

[GUJUm0deL]

rossmcl, well you need some kind of a server side scripting language to do this, something like Coldfusion, ASP, PHP, etc.

Basicaly create a page (the extension would be different depending on what server side script you use, like coldfusion is .cfm, asp is .asp, etc.) For demenstration purposes i'll use .cfm, so create a register.cfm that asks the user for their name, email address and a radio-button option for what kind of e-mail the user wants, like HTML format or Text format. have register.cfm go to register_action.cfm, which basically thanks the user for registering. But also on that page, you store all the info. in a dB, to be called later on when you want to send an email out.

You add info to the dB like this:

<cfinsert datasource=&quot;yourdatasource&quot; tablename=&quot;table1&quot; formfields=&quot;name, email, emailformat&quot;>


That's the base gist of things. For more info, go here:

http://tutorial62.easycfm.com/

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