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I have a client that has a list of several thousand email addresses (and their personal info). If they are holding an event in a particular city, they want to send an email to "everyone in these cities with these parameters". They would like to keep track of who attends each event, let people unsubscribe, but not loose their data, track other attributes about each person over time, etc.
The main company site is in Drupal, but this project can use any platform. Any suggestions about php software that can be customized to do this?
There is heaps of software to do this. You will have to get the data into a form that can be imported into a database though like mysql.
Wordpress has lots of plugins that can import mailing lists and news letters.
Once the data is in a database table then you could also write your own quite easily. If you aren't a coder though wordpress plugins or something similar might be the way to go.
Also, checkout mailchimp and services like that.
p.s. if you send several thousands emails you will probably get black listed :P
Obviously there is lots of software to do this, but I was looking for any advice someone might have to help me narrow down the search because there are so many scripts to test.
In this case, I settled on CiviCRM, which has both a drupal and a wordpress integration and does everything that I needed, specifically the ability to record lots of meta data about the individuals in the database and then to segment that data to use for sending email.
https://civicrm.org/
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We're a small logistics company and want to be able to provide clients with a way to generate custom reports with their data in our shared database (limited by the relations built in the DB) as well a few standard reports that we will build for them.
We've looked into iDashboards and LogiAnalytics but the price tags are huge, and iDashboards have limitations on user sessions that directly obstruct how we deal with user logins (one company might have 10 people using the same User/Pass) so a "perpetual named session" is pretty unacceptable.
The ability to generate maps with the data (like a US map) and drill down to the city, county, or zip code level is also a must (though I would consider software that enables me to add this easily).
I've been searching, and searching, and have not found anything that looks useful thus far and am hoping someone out there has used something they liked and can make a recommendation.
If I can provide any more info about our requirements or needs, let me know and I'll gladly edit.
Try DBxtra, the license allow an unlimited number of report viewer users and also can do maps of pivot grids, besides it can connect to several databases and even plain text (CSV) files.
Take a look at myDBR. It will do everything you listed and much more.
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Here's what I need: I have a table in a SQLite file, that contains items - descriptions, dimensions, image and thumbnail.
I need to allow someone from outside the company to edit this table through an "admin interface". I need a simple login mechanism to authenticate said user, and I need a form that shows all available rows in the table applicable to him/her, and allow editing the values. That may include uploading images.
Now, I've developed tons of these interfaces before, in several languages. What I'd like to ask is: is there a shortcut? Since this needs to be quick and dirty (i.e., this wasn't in the original plan, I'm not being paid for this, but I may lose a client if I don't have it in place) and be up as soon as possible, is there some open source solution, or any previous PHP code, that I can customize and use in this and future cases?
Any solution that will save me time is welcome.
Thanks for YOUR time :)
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Well if you can use a framework you could use an auto generated admin interface or scaffolding from a framework. Symfony and Cake both have this. Of course thats a lot of dead weight to have if the whole app/site isnt using the framework. But it would make it relatively painless to create. IF you can run this interface on a subdomain that would make it even esier since you dont have to worry about integrating it with anything existing except the DB and shared folder for the uploaded files.
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Does anybody know of any open source project that deals with creating forms or surveys?
The engine needs to function something similar to Survey Monkey (surveys; each containing survey pages; each containing a survey element - radio boxes/check boxes/text areas or other components) - except that we have requirements to brand it with custom look and feel and we have our own custom form interactions. I believe that some of these custom interactions might be worth contributing back to the OSS community as well, but we would rather plug it into an existing project that creating one from scratch.
It would be preferable if such a project used PHP and MySQL but I am fine with any other combination. Any inputs on this would be very useful.
Yes, there are. The following may suit you best:
LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey basically contains everything you need for doing nearly every survey with grace.
ActiveCampaign
Conduct surveys with ease by creating your survey using our proprietary WYSIWYG survey design tool, deploying your survey to your respondents, and fully analyzing the results.
PHPESP
PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.
I can recommend JForm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jformphp/). It enables you to create easily customizable forms from a php settings array.
I had built one custom survey as per my requirements over here. May be you can customize it and make it as per your needs and you can host it on your server too. It uses PHP / MySQL. Its not a complete solution though.
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I'm looking for a subscribe/unsubscribe mailing list to install on my website.
Requirements:
PHP/MySQL;
Cron job: uses scheduling to send email in batches;
Multiple languages: when user is subscribing, they need to select preferred language from a drop-down;
Send in both HTML/Text;
Bounce-email check;
Double opt-in: user must confirm email before being subscribed.
Unsubscribe link: being able to unsubscribe by following a link in the email.
Any suggestions? Could be paid license as well (maximum $40). However, I'm not interested in hosted services with monthly fees.
Thanks!
Maybe have a go with List Messenger? http://www.listmessenger.com/ It's not great, but it is pretty well featured and it's all in PHP so you can hack it about if you want to.
http://phplist.com/ comes to mind
There is a number of PHP mailing list applications around, and to my surprise, almost all turned out to be total crap. At least the open source ones.
The only free one that I have used myself and was happy with is PoMMO. I don't think it can do cron-powered batch sending, and I'm not sure about automated bounce handling, but the rest should be achievable: You can create custom signup forms so language selection shouldn't be a problem (and later, putting subscribers into groups according to the selection).
It seems to have been inactive since 2008, and the back-end template needs a bit of reworking to look good in Firefox, but it has been a reliable workhorse.
Anyway. The PHPList project #Gordon suggests looks more active, which is always good in a public-facing software. Maybe try that first.
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Do you know a good and free newsletter system written in php that allows users import/export from database or text files, store multiple fields for every user (like name, surname...) and create users groups?
I've tried Listmessenger, but it's not completly free, and CcMail but it's not very good for me...
Even tho you have discounted Listmessenger, I have set it up for numerous companies (with the purchase of a $49 cdn dollar license - for over 200 users!). They have been very pleased, as the software is simple enough for most users, and advanced enough to get the job done (that you require). I have only had good feedback about the software, where otherwise other software created a large learning curve and did not work exactly as well.
I would recommend giving it another try, and $50 cdn dollars is not exactly a fortune for advertising, plus you can use it free for under 200 users (some features missing of course, but I assure you its well worth it).
Otherwise, I have tried phplist.com, but I have found it to be confusing for most users.
But try it if you want: http://www.phplist.com