[php]Mailing list script that sends out different weekly info needed

[corpsegrinder]

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a free script out there that would work as a pregnancy info mailing list type set up? Or an easy way to do it.

For example

User enters date baby is meant to be due and an email address. It then calculates what week they are up to in the pregnancy and each week it sends them an email of information regarding the respective week such as

http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_calendar/week1.html

and this in week 2
http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_calendar/week2.html

etc

If anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated. I have trawled search engines for days and am only just beginning to learn PHP.

Cheerz
Ray

 

[ryza]

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a free script out there that would work as a pregnancy info mailing list type set up? Or an easy way to do it.

Sounds like you need something very customized which probably explains why your looking so hard to find a script.

If you were going to code it yourself:

1. make a html form for user to submit email address's.
2. the form executes script which saves email in database with due date etc.
3. make a php cron which runs daily and sends out the appropriate emails.
4. log emails sent out and what dates they were sent etc.
5. make a script so users can unsubscribe by clicking link in email.

 

[ryza]

you could also test your coding by making it send emails out every 7 minutes instead of days, just to see if its working etc...