Creating your own user registration system allows you to obtain interesting information about the visitors to your site. You can offer tailored content, provide additional services and keep track of what is being used. But how do users actually register for your site? They will be using a user registration system that may or may not be coded by yourself. One of the key parts of this system will be the validation of their account.
This lesson is aimed at teaching you how to send email from your website using PHP. I will try to cover as many possible ways to send email that I can. For this lesson we will be using the mail() function to send the email. If you havn't used this before, it can be slighly tricky. So, without futher ado, lets begin!
This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple newsletter in PHP/MYSQL with account activation. This will require PHP that is not running in SAFE_MODE or PHP that at least allows the sendmail function(duh, you can't send mail without this enabled).
Joining mailing list will entitle you
to receive occasional emails informing you of news and
updates to the site and any special offers that may be
of interest to you.