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Re: Use PHP to populate a Mailing list from a webpage [message #185587 is a reply to message #185586] Thu, 17 April 2014 03:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/16/2014 11:26 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am at PHP 101 level. I have a webpage that asks a user to enter
> their name in one box, email address in another and click send. That's
> works OK (almost):-).
>
> I also have created an empty Mailing list 'List-B' in my Mozilla
> Thunderbird to which I want to automatically add the email addresses
> sent from the webpage.
>
> Here's my question please.
>
> When the page gets back to my PHP pgm, can it add the email address to
> my mailing list without manual intervention?
>
> Am not fond of mixing languages, etc so a pure PHP solution would be
> appreciated unless design wise not clever.
>
> Have googled, not found anything closely relevant.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Graham Hobbs
>

Your problem us PHP runs on the server; Thunderbird runs on your local
client. Unless they are the same system, there is no way PHP can update
your local Thunderbird mailing list.

Jerry


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