Comments on: Building a Simple PHP Mailing List

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:38:47 +0000

It looks correct, not too sure. Could jus change the URL in the email to be domain.com/unsubscribe/index.php?hash= instead of just domain.com/unsubscribe/ , can’t quite see at the moment why its not working unless you don’t have Rewrite access on your server.

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:26:14 +0000

My .htaccess in the unsubscribe folder is
“RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?hash=$1 [L]“

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:39:20 +0000

Please may sure to use the .htaccess code as it seems that this isn’t working properly with your script.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:43:28 +0000

What if I wanted to not send an email blast from this script, but just have an actual email list that way I can import it into my Outlook? IS there a way that I can do that?

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:35:45 +0000

Hey I can’t get the unsubscribe to work using this code. The URL takes me to domain.com/unsubscribe/fce4ce060795cd3addadd2148887957b282&email=you@email.com
Which gives me a 404. Any ideas on what I could tweak

By: Domain Registration

Domain Registration — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:24:42 +0000

your article is helpful for me.

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By: mm

mm — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:58:21 +0000

OMFG!
Please stop it. This code is so flawed I don’t know where to start.
Use the tools at you hand. Why does everyone write his own version for email validation when you can use filter_var?

Don’t start to tell about PHP 4 it is long dead.

Why do you write
SELECT * FROM subscribers WHERE email = ‘$email’ AND unsubscribeLink = ‘$hash’ LIMIT 1;

When you also could write SELECT 1 FROM subscribers WHERE email = ? AND unsubscribeLink = ? LIMIT 1

Also use PDO or mysqli.

You don’t need to add a semicolon at the end of the sql statements. You only need to add them when working directly on the database mysql_query, mysqli_query and PDO::query add it for you. You don’t need to add it there.

Also check for existence for $_GET parameters when you want to use them.

There are other flaws with only skimming over the code you’ve dumped here. Reread the code, learn to write proper SQL and write sane PHP.

By: Torsten

Torsten — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:51:28 +0000

Hello and thanks for the great tutorial. I wrote a similar script two years or so ago, but in yours there are some more details like the AJAX stuff and other things. So I think I will update my script with parts of your code. Thanks again for the good work!

By: ahsan

ahsan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:42:31 +0000

i would love to see this if you can merge it with wordpress