Email2DB Example Uses: Web Form Processing
Many web sites have forms that visitors can fill in, such as:
- Feedback forms
- Newsletter subscription forms
- Product enquiry forms
Etc etc.
Most web site design tools include scripts that will send the contents of these forms via email. Email2DB can be used to process emails from web forms.
Using Email2DB to process web forms is much more efficient than using ASP or
CGI on your web server itself to update your databases. It take the load of the
web server and is much easier to setup and debug. Its also more secure,
since your database does not have to be accessible from your web server.
For example,
suppose you have a simple newsletter subscription form. This form sends you
an email whenever a visitor fills in the web site form to receive your
newsletter. The form will probably be a simple one, such as:
Subject Line: Subscriber
| Name |
Joe Bloggs |
| Email |
joe@bloggs.com |
|
Email2DB can watch for emails with the subject line 'Subscriber' and from
a particular address.
Email2DB can extract the Name and Email fields, add a record to your
subscribers database and send a confirmation email back to 'joe@bloggs.com'
telling him he has been added to the database.
You could also create the
'Email' field as a 'Key' field, so that if the same email address is entered
again the existing record is updated in the database instead of a new record
being added.
You can also create an 'un-subscribe' form. This time Email2DB could
delete the record from the subscribers database.
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