I dont even know if Im in the right section, but I need a script that says something like "please enter email address to be informed of websites Grand Opening" and then there be a input field where viewers can input their email address and then it email it to my email. Or even better, it adds it to like a database or a list so then I can just copy and paste all the email addresses when im ready to email them all about the opening.
Any responses would be helpful, even if someone could better explain to me in proper terms what it is im asking for. Thanks alot.

wrong terminology!

email harvester = script for crawling 1000s of web pages and immorally dragging email addresses out of them onto a list ready for spamming! all you need is a "mailing list" script.

apparently there's a lot of them on Google

Something like this:

<?php
$filename = 'yourfile.txt'; //where to store data

if(isset($_POST['mail'])) {
$newcontent = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['mail']));
if(!empty($newcontent)) {
if (is_writable($filename)) {

if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
echo "Cannot open file ($filename)";
exit;
}
if (fwrite($handle, $newcontent."\n") === FALSE) {
echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
exit;
}
echo "Thanks! You will be informed."; //success
fclose($handle);
} else {
echo 'Sorry, the file "' . $filename . '" is not writable';
}
}
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<p>Please enter email address to be informed of websites Grand Opening!</p>
<input type="text" name="mail" />
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form>

Thanks for the script. Something good to see some nice PHP about forums these days. LOL...

I may take a look further into the script to see if i can make use of it.

~ Mike

Originally Posted by Mad182

Something like this:

Thank you very for your code, I really appreciate it. I however seem to not be able to get ti wto work properly. I tried another script someonewhere on the forum and it is doing the same thing, or I should say "not" doing the same thing. It seems to be working on the website, okay, however when I go look at the txt file which it should be storing the information to, theres nothing there. I copied the php script to a .php file made a .txt for it to save the information to and then copied the html into my html code...

does the html code need to be referenced to the php file at all the link the two together?I know the php is linked to the txt file... I mean, how does the form know to use that specific php script. what if I had like three different php files in the same directory..

If that's not working, here is something that might help you.

- Steve

rakoom2002, in the <form> tag the "action" attribute tells the browser where to send the form results. By specifying an empty string, the browser knows to send it to the same page.

if you want the form to be on somefile.html and then have it sent to somefile.php, you'll need to adjust the form like this.

<form action="somefile.php" method="post">

One more quick question. There is a part of the php script that is called like success or something that prints "thank You for submitting email..." after the user has in fact submitted their email. Is there a way to style that, currently it is the same color as the background and aligned to the left of my page. Lol I tried putting a < div> tag around the success text to style it with css and it FREAKED out.

Ive tried everything I could think of, I tried putting a span tag around the whole php script, and almost variation of positions around the actual Thank You text itself.

is it even possible to style this sort of text?

Oh, it's certainly possible. Did you try using the span tags like I suggested in that last thread? With css, you just gotta keep testing...

- Steve

Ya. I tried that. I tried both span and div tags in every position I could think of. around the entire php, around just the success text. I thought that the texts appearance may be affected by the styles of the body so I tried adding some css to affect the body's font style. nothing worked.

My sample with HTML and CSS: http://paste.php.lv/ed633fbbb9f9f6b7...e052c76f/nonum

Thank You very much Mad. I appreciate all your help.