Autoresponders With PHP
First off, check out the URL below. You'll learn how to make
that today. http://www.jumpx.com utorials/3/signup.html
Fill out your e-mail address on the page you see. (I promise
it's not being saved anywhere.) Then, wait a minute or two and
check your mail. You should get a message from Gumby
(null@jumpx.com) containing a sample autoresponder message.
Today, we're going to learn three easy things: redirection, mail
sending, and form submission.
When we finish with that, you will know how to put those
components together and create an autoresponder. Because if you
think about it, that's all an autoresponder does. Somebody
enters in their e-mail address, are sent an e-mail message, and
then are redirected to a new page.
Of course there are more complex autoresponders, like Gary
Ambrose's Opt-In Lightning, or Wes Baylock's Mail Master Pro
which handle multiple follow-ups and record the e-mail addresses
of those who have signed up for the responder. But today we're
just going to focus on how to make a very basic, very simple
autoresponder.
Hopefully, you've seen what form objects in HTML look like.
Here's some code you can use for an example: