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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

Overview of this book

Tired of an e-mail BCC list that scrolls off the page, or fiddly and hard-to-manage bulk mailing systems? You need phpList – a high-powered, robust, feature-packed mailing system that will get out of your way and get the job done! You want to know more about phpList? phpList is a popular open source e-mail campaign manager, sporting a powerful web frontend, rich message editor, and an advanced feature set. phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager will guide you from basic installation and setup through management, reporting, and automation of phpList, the world's most popular open source e-mail campaign manager. It also covers advanced customization and configuration of phpList. We start with a basic configuration, and finish with a full-featured e-mail management engine. You will work your way up from basic installation to advanced topics such as bounce automation, user and click-through tracking, and integration with third-party tools such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Blogger. Advanced topics such as securing your installation against spammers, attacks, and vulnerabilities are covered, as well as additional advanced and experimental features offered by phpList. This book is an invaluable guide for any e-mail publisher who wants a robust and powerful engine to manage their small-to-huge e-mail distribution empire.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a custom subscribe page


Now that we know how to create a basic subscriber page, we may want to capture more information about our customers when they sign up. In this example, let's assume we'd like to know their name and movie genre preferences.

Creating attributes

While we can take advantage of the built-in attributes, we can also create our own attributes to further personalize our e-mails. Let's create a new, optional attribute for the movie genre preference:

  1. 1. On the main admin page, click on the attributes link:

  2. 2. Click on Add a new one to create a new attribute:

  3. 3. You are hyperlinked to the bottom of the page for the new attribute form. Enter a name for the attribute (Movie Genre) and an attribute type. In this case, checkboxgroup was chosen, because our readers may have more than one genre preference. Unless you want the attribute to be mandatory, remove the check from the checkbox next to Is this attribute required?. Click on Save Changes to create the new attribute:

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