Unsubscribe E-mail

[lau]

Hi all,

 

I want to create an 'Unsubscribe' link in the e-mails I'm sending out. If the person receiving the e-mail no longer wants to receive e-mails from me, they click the 'Unsubscribe' link in the e-mail which will be something like this:

 

http://www.mysite.com/[email protected]

 

So upon click this link they will be taken to a page that says, do you wish to stop receiving these e-mails - Yes / No?

 

When the user clicks 'Yes', I need to save the e-mail address from the link in a text file.

 

Could anyone tell me how to do this using php?

 

Thanks,

 

Laura

[phpzone]

Something like the following, I just typed this in off-hand so there could be errors, but I'll let you do some work on it

 

Make your directory the unsubscribe.txt sits in writable.

 

<?php 

define( 'UNSUBSCRIBE_FILE', '/home/phpzone/wwwroot/files/unsubscribe-' . date('Y-m-d') . '.txt');

$email = $_REQUEST['email'];

$fp = fopen( UNSUBSCRIBE_FILE, 'a+' );

if ( $fp )
{

     fwrite( $fp, $email, strlen($email) );

    fclose( $fp )

    print <<<_THANKS

<p>Thank you, we will remove your address from our database within 48 hours.  If you continue to
receive emails after this time please contact us on  00000 00000 00000</p>

_THANKS;
}
else
{
     print <<<_ERROR

<p>There was an problem unsubscribing you, to report this error and request removal via telephone,
please ring 000000 00000 0000</p>

_ERROR;
}

?>