Word-A-Day Email

[Volk359]

Greetings all,

I posted this on another forum but didn't get an answer so hopefully I'll get one here.

I'd like to set up a language word of the day email program on my website for, or course, subscribers only. It should have the option of choosing and changing the language of choice and subscribe and unsubcribe and to have it all be automatic with little or preferably no human interaction, i.e. all software driven. Customization would be paramount as well.

I did several searches and found a plethora of sites to begin receiving assorted word-a-day's but nothing to get me started with one of my own. Would anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[ChrisHunt]

You need two distinct scripts:
[ol]
[li]A cgi script where visitors can subscribe/unsubscribe from your mailing list. You should be able to use/adapt something from

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Mailing_Lists/

to your purpose.
[/li]
[li]A script that you can schedule to run each day (using [tt]cron[/tt] on unix boxes, dunno what the windows equivalent would be). This would need to select the word - how do you have these stored? - and mail it to the people in the list. This shouldn't be too complicated - but you'll probably have to write it yourself.
[/li]
[/ol]
I suppose if you've already found similar services online, maybe you could write to them and ask them what they use?

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[TamedTech]

Hmm ... i built a ColdFusion newletter script that could be adapted, it works on the idea of a subscription, add's the address's to a MySQL Database, you then have another script that is scheduled to run which sends a mail to all the address's in the database and contains information on the latest news that is again drawn from the data-base.

I'm sure it would work a charm for this sort of thing, you just need to support ColdFusion for it to run,

Then its just a case of placing all of your words into your database and your set to go, sit back and let the subscriptions roll in.

Rob