ir name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may

Let's begin by setting some limits. If you're like me, you like to keep it simple. All we're doing is collecting email addresses together for our mailing list, so biochemical engineering is out the window. If you're using Thunderbird (or that MS product), you can send nicely formatted newsletters out and retain all of the other awesome features of your email program so there's really no need for databases, logins, or pretty much anything else. We're going to stay far away from anything non-essential.

To keep it simple, I'll assume you have Dreamweaver or a comparable WYSIWYG composer; however, if you are editing source code you can click here to see an expanded version of this article with source code. Also, I've assumed that you have an extremely basic familiarity with PHP. If not, please begin by reading this PHP introduction (for absolute beginners).

There are only 3 steps we're going to need:

1. Put HTML on the page to collect the user's name and email address.
2. Add in a little PHP and (possibly) change a filename.
3. Receive and process the emails.

Marching on, we need to put some HTML on our page to let the visitor enter in their name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may n

ures of your email program so there's really no need for databases, logins, or pretty much anything else. We're going to stay far away from anything non-essential.

To keep it simple, I'll assume you have Dreamweaver or a comparable WYSIWYG composer; however, if you are editing source code you can click here to see an expanded version of this article with source code. Also, I've assumed that you have an extremely basic familiarity with PHP. If not, please begin by reading this PHP introduction (for absolute beginners).

There are only 3 steps we're going to need:

1. Put HTML on the page to collect the user's name and email address.
2. Add in a little PHP and (possibly) change a filename.
3. Receive and process the emails.

Marching on, we need to put some HTML on our page to let the visitor enter in their name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may

t-reference.com/newsletter_how_to.php">click here to see an expanded version of this article with source code. Also, I've assumed that you have an extremely basic familiarity with PHP. If not, please begin by reading this PHP introduction (for absolute beginners).

There are only 3 steps we're going to need:

1. Put HTML on the page to collect the user's name and email address.
2. Add in a little PHP and (possibly) change a filename.
3. Receive and process the emails.

Marching on, we need to put some HTML on our page to let the visitor enter in their name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may

ginners).

There are only 3 steps we're going to need:

1. Put HTML on the page to collect the user's name and email address.
2. Add in a little PHP and (possibly) change a filename.
3. Receive and process the emails.

Marching on, we need to put some HTML on our page to let the visitor enter in their name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may

ir name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you'll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.

We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may need to make another slight change. If the file's extension is not php, php3, php4, or phtml you should change the file's extension to php. Now, you will need to be careful here as file extensions are extremely important, so you may lose functionality when you change the file's extension. If this is the case, look up the extension and find a tutorial for the language.

Take a breather and get ready for step 2. Since this is a PHP tutorial, we're going to take a closer look at the PHP code used to send us the email. Being a language, we'll need to learn enough of the PHP vernacular to 1) use the information the user submitted, 2) create the body of the email, and 3) send the email.

The form we created sends 2 pieces of information: visitor_name and visitor_email. When PHP receives them it realizes that someone POSTed some information and to make it easy for you to get ahold of it creates a couple of special "things" you can use to refer to what the user entered: $_POST['visitor_name'] and $_POST['visitor_email']. Why does it call them by funny names? Well the $_POST part assures you that it was information that was submitted by your visitor and not some other PHP somewhere on your page. The part in quotes allows you to pick which piece of information was submitted by your