E-Mail Opt In Script

**coreygeer** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:43 AM

Alright, I'm using Host Gator and I'm trying to figure out how to set up an E-mail opt In script so I can build a mailing list.

Are there any free scripts to do this? I'm trying to use a Fantastico tool called "PhpFormGenerator" but I can't get it to work for me. I've never set up a mailing list or "opt in" code before.

Barbacamanitu · #2 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:45 AM

wouldnt it just be some type of simple mysql query?

**coreygeer** · #3 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Barbacamanitu

wouldnt it just be some type of simple mysql query?

That sounds Greek to me. I have no idea.. I'm not "code" smart.

**bhnoobz** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:57 AM

Find the copy of interspire email marketer on this forum.. It should allow you to generate a form that will subscribe users to your list.. You can even setup an autoresponder with it so when people signup they will get emailed automagically.

**BlackBeret** · #5 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:59 AM

Who are you using to manage the mailing list?

If it's awe*ber or Get*response they have the script in your control panel. GR has a free account if money is a problem.

**coreygeer** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 02:59 AM

Well, Host Gator's CPanel provides an Auto Responder.

I just couldn't find anything on capturing e-mails but I find it hard to believe since they offer mailing lists so I must be missing something from their CPanel.

**bhnoobz** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 03:07 AM

If they have an autoresponder, find out how to subscribe people to it. Just email them.....

**coreygeer** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by bhnoobz

If they have an autoresponder, find out how to subscribe people to it. Just email them.....

They don't provide one. I just contacted them through live chat.

Lol.. so they provide E-Mail Forwarding, Auto-Responders, E-Mail Mass Messaging but just not Opt In forms or anything like that so that you can capture e-mails

mesol · #9 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 09:33 AM

how about aMember. someone share this script before in BHW

wm8c · #10 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 09:40 AM

The autoresponders that most hosts supply won't handle the task you want, you want to use aweber or similar...

fatboy · #11 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 10:06 AM

I only have a small mailing list and the money I make from it would of been eaten up using the aWebers etc so I wrote my own opt in list script.

Visitor signs up, they get a confirmation email, click and they are signed up and details go into a database. Each email I send from there has a unsubscribe link that when clicked instantly deletes them from the database.

Its easier than I thought to put together so may be worth looking into that.

**Billw** · #12 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 09:53 PM

I have a form generator that creates an opt-in form. Since I have a small list I just have it email me when someone fills out the form. I then can respond to them any way I want. It's called web2mail and I think I got it on this forum but may have googled it.

**BozoClown** · #13 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 10:41 PM

^^^
So your personal reply isn't really warm but due to a lack of automation tools.