Jacek's maillinglist tutorial

[Helx]

Ohhhhh

You're going to need to make your email HTML.

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

Add those to your headers (obviously change the name of the variables)
(The '.' before the equals operator 'adds' them together I believe)

Then just add your html content!
Keep in mind that HTML emails often end up in spam.

SOURCE: http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/

[Fidbeck]

I mean to do something like this

all pretty and stuff
for the unsubscrive link is like this

but for this one I can use the <a href > tags between ' or " i'm not sute which one

[EcazS]

<a href="unsubscribe.php?code=as9d876ya321h">Unsubscribe</a>

I don't get what the problem is...

[Fidbeck]

It's not a problem lol just saying that I want to make that text into a link.

[Fidbeck]

Hello again.

I want to add a feature to the mailing list but i'm unsure how to do it.
I want to be able to as soon as the user registers it will receive a welcome message.

[Helx]

mail()

More info

[Fidbeck]

I know I have to use mail function lol but how to check if a new user is registered and send an email.
or the best way is too add that mail in the registration process? something like
if no errors register and send mail

[Temor]

well, you could have the mail() function inside your register function.

function register_user($email,$username,$password){
// Do register type stuff here.

mail($email,'Welcome','Welcome to the site');

return true;
}

[Fidbeck]

precisely what I was refering.
You do the error checking and if no errors are found you then can send an welcome message to the user.
I was asking if that's the best way to send an welcome message to a newly registered user or the server that you are using has to have that option enabled in order to do that.

[Temor]

Well, it is the only way I know of to send an email through PHP, but yes, it does require some tinkering on some servers. Most servers have this enabled by default, but if you're using a free host ( or even some payed hosts ) there might be a chance that they block or limit the email function to prevent spam.

[Fidbeck]

Guess i'll just do that put mail() function in the register form

thanks