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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

Integrating phpList with Drupal


Drupal is described as a "community publishing system". It has a mature, modular, well-documented "core" of features, providing general content management functions such as content, user, and system management.

Drupal is then extensible through modules, which add features like e-commerce, advanced taxonomy, SEO optimizations, and so on. In our case, we're going to install and configure a module to add phpList integration.

Prerequisites

For this section, we'll make the following assumptions:

  • We already have a working instance of Drupal (version 6).

  • We are hosting our Drupal site and our phpList site on the same web server and with the same URL base. That is, our Drupal site is accessible at http://yoursite.com and our phpList installation is accessible at http://yoursite.com/lists/.

    Note

    We chose to document the Drupal-phpList integration using Drupal 6, even though Drupal 7 has recently been released. This is because (a) the phpList module for Drupal 7 is still...