Hi DW,
To avoid "lost emails" with Listmail Pro, is there a way to display the emails right on my site for subscribers besides sending them? (i.e. like an "web browser version" of a sequential autoresponder?)
The displayed emails would be identical to what I send via Listmail Pro.
So I would set up my site like a "online membership site" and use both Listmail Pro (to email) and a php script (to display on my site) the same messages in this order:
(1) Message 1 - "Thank you for joining" - available immediately (Sent and available on their web-browser screen - I think Listmail already does this)
(2) Message 2 - "Dear fname, ...." - available 24 hours after sign up, (Listmail emails it, and subscriber can access thru members only page on my site)
(3) Message 3 - "Dear fname,...." - available 48 hours after sign up, (same as above).
I asked in another forum and got this response:
I take it you are using a set of database tables for this site? Maybe a users table and an subscribed/purchase table ? If so you should have the date/time that an order was placed stored somewhere in the database correct?
So you should be able to find out the time since the order was placed - and show the required information accordingly.
Here's the code:
// this is only pseudocode - you'll have to fill in your own bits
$time_today = date();
$time_purchased = //get this from the database
$time_difference = time_difference_function($time_purchased, $time_today);
$time_diff_hours = $time_difference['hours'];
if($time_diff_hours < 24) // Within the first day
{
// Information A (accessible immediately after purchase/login)
}
if($time_diff_hours > 24 && $time_diff_hours < 48) // Second Day
{
// Information B (only accessible after 24 hours have passed from Day 1)
}
if($time_diff_hours > 48) // Third day
{
// Information C (only accessible after 48 hours after they purchased).
}
I think the above code "does the trick" but I still don't understand how to actuall make it work.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Jess
