Hi,

I need to do a little CMS for managing Newsletter for 1 of my customers.
as i never worked on such thing in the past, i would be glad to have your
feedback.

basically, web site users are registered into DB.
my customer would like to send them a newsletter to promote new products and
services.
this newsletter should be in HTML format and send 1 by 1 to each customer.

where can i find information or template how to develop such managing tool
for newsletter ?
i mean online, customer will create his newsletter layout and add images,
links, text, and so on...

to what should i pay attention ?

thanks a lot,

--
Alain
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Windows XP SP2
PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005
Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5.2.4
C# 2005-2008

Alain Roger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to do a little CMS for managing Newsletter for 1 of my customers.
> as i never worked on such thing in the past, i would be glad to have your
> feedback.
>
> basically, web site users are registered into DB.
> my customer would like to send them a newsletter to promote new products and
> services.
> this newsletter should be in HTML format and send 1 by 1 to each customer.
>
> where can i find information or template how to develop such managing tool
> for newsletter ?
> i mean online, customer will create his newsletter layout and add images,
> links, text, and so on...
>
> to what should i pay attention ?
>
> thanks a lot,
>
>

Hi,

Not to disturb your agreement with your customer, but sending out
newsletters is a difficult business.

If your customer sends out these newsletters from his own mailserver,
chances are that his mailserver becomes blacklisted. Even if the
messages are legit, some people think otherwise.

The result of this is, that his whole domain becomes blocked, so his
business can't send normal e-mail from this domain anymore to people who
use blacklists.

This has nothing to do with your question about programming it in PHP
etc., but I do want you to notice these impacts.

On the PHP/HTML part, make your layout as strict as possible. Every
e-mail client parses the HTML differently and Outlook 2007 even went
back to Word HTML compatibility which is a pain in the bottom to get it
right.

Building good, solid templates for newsletters is not something I would
like to build for any customer.

--

Aschwin Wesselius

/'What you would like to be done to you, do that to the other....'/

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to do a little CMS for managing Newsletter for 1 of my customers.
> as i never worked on such thing in the past, i would be glad to have your
> feedback.
>
> basically, web site users are registered into DB.
> my customer would like to send them a newsletter to promote new products
> and
> services.
> this newsletter should be in HTML format and send 1 by 1 to each customer.
>
> where can i find information or template how to develop such managing tool
> for newsletter ?


You can use http://www.phplist.com/

Regards,
Brice Favre


> i mean online, customer will create his newsletter layout and add images,
> links, text, and so on...
>
> to what should i pay attention ?
>
> thanks a lot,
>
> --
> Alain
> ------------------------------------
> Windows XP SP2
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4 / MS SQL server 2005
> Apache 2.2.4
> PHP 5.2.4
> C# 2005-2008
>

Hi Alain

I would use RSS.
My friend Google gave me that link to try
http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm

> this newsletter should be in HTML format and send 1 by 1 to each customer.