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I'm working on a website that contains a link where users can signup for a weekly devotional/inspirational message that would be sent to their email account. My question is, what is considered the best way to store all the emails and retrieve them? Database? XML File?...
Thanks,
If you have a DB already in place as part of this project, then by all means use that. If there is no database AND all you will ever store is a list of emails, you might consider a text file. Although text files are not meant for sharing and a web page can be hit simultaneously from many users. Text file "locking" and "sharing" is a real concern in the IIS / ASP.Net type of web pages I work on.
szlamany,
There is no DB in place for this project and one is not needed. I was thinking about a text file as well. This is not an ASP.Net website...just straight HTML, Javascript, CSS. As you said, "sharing" and "locking" can come into play with a textfile so I'm wondering if a DB would be the best option? Plus, since I have never done this before, I'm thinking that just a javascript function to kick off this functionality of mass mailing that can be triggered someone (still not sure how to trigger a script from the web server).
I send email from my web server - how are you going to get the browser to send a series of emails without clicking on each email TO link?