PHP Mailing System

[01hanstu]

Hi,

I am looking for a simple mailing system to which I can have send an email out every monday morning auomatically.

Any ideas would be great.

- Stu

[Edu-IT]

Email for?

 

If you don't need it hosted internally you could look at something like MailChimp, the free version.

 

Email Marketing Features | MailChimp

[01hanstu]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Basically staff 'Forget' what duty they need to do, So if i can have a system where it emails them every monday to let them know the timetable that would be great.

Thanks

- Stu

[powdarrmonkey]

If you send them the same email every Monday, they will ignore it. This is a staff discipline problem, not a technology problem.

[01hanstu]

Yeah - Not my decision. I am just look for another approach.

[Edu-IT]

If you send them the same email every Monday, they will ignore it. This is a staff discipline problem, not a technology problem.

Could change the subject each week to something exciting.

 

- Free cake in the kitchen.

- Staff drinks on Friday in the pub, all paid for by the headteacher.

 

You get the idea.

[AshEarl]

Hiya

 

Just a thought, how about sending all staff a reoccuring Outlook appointment with the information attached?

 

They probably wont look at it, but it will bug the hell out of them!!

[danbuntu]

to do it with php just use:

 

mail($to,$subject, $message) or whatever the manual says the function is.

 

then set up a scheduled task to fire it off and change the $message as needed.

 

don't spend to much time it though as everyone says it will be ignored

[CyberNerd]

you could setup a google spreadsheet with the timetable and then use a time 'trigger' on a google script to send the mail to each member of staff at the right time,eg 10 min before their duty.

 

Google Apps Script - Google Apps Script - Google Code

 

function sendEmails() {
 var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
 var startRow = 2;  // First row of data to process
 var numRows = 2;   // Number of rows to process
 // Fetch the range of cells A2:B3
 var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 2)
 // Fetch values for each row in the Range.
 var data = dataRange.getValues();
 for (i in data) {
   var row = data[i];
   var emailAddress = row[0];  // First column
   var message = row[1];       // Second column
   var subject = "Sending emails from a Spreadsheet";
   MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message);
 }
}

 

or more simply add the timetable to their calendar and send a 10min notification.