Chapter 19. Managing a Simple Mailing List

In this chapter, you learn the following:

• How to create a subscribe/unsubscribe form and script

• How to create a front end for sending your message

• How to create the script that sends your message

This chapter provides the first of several hands-on, small projects designed to pull together your PHP and MySQL knowledge. In this chapter, you learn how to create a managed distribution list that you can use to send out newsletters or anything else to a list of email addresses in a database.

Note

As with all the small sample projects in this book, these projects might not be exactly what you plan to build with your new PHP and MySQL knowledge. However, I cannot stress enough that the concepts and ...

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