PHPlist

THE PHPLIST FEATURES

• phplist is a one-way email announcement delivery system. It is great for newsletters, publicity lists, notifications, and many other uses. (It is different from group mailing list systems like mailman.)
• The Web Interface lets you write and send messages, and manage phplist over the internet.
• phplist keeps sending messages from your web server, even after you shut down your computer.
• 100 000 + subscribers. phplist is designed to manage mailing lists with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. phplist is excellent with smaller lists too!
• No duplicate messages. No 'forgotten' messages. phplist manages message delivery with a message queue, ensuring that every subscriber gets the email message, and that no subscribers receive two copies, even if they're subscribed to more than one list!
• Open/View Tracking tells you how many users opened your email message. This provides a minimum statistic, as many email clients with privacy or security policies block images (gmail, thunderbird, and others).
• Click Tracking tracks links and URLs. Statistics can be viewed by message, URL or subscriber.
• Multiple Subscribe Pages allow you to choose many different combinations of templates, languages, user attributes and lists.
• Templates are completely customizable, and make site integration a breeze.
• Multiple Templates on different subscribe pages can integrate phplist with several different web sites.
• Subscriber Attributes like 'name', 'country', and other personal information, are completely customizable. You can specify what information you need to get from users when they subscribe.
• User Specific Content. You can use Subscriber Attributes in message content to make each and every email message personalized with the subscribers name, country, or any other attribute.
• HTML email messages. Subscribers can be given the choice between text or html email messages. You decide whether subscribers can choose, what the default choice is, and what format a message is sent in: text only, html only, or both!
• The HTML Editor allows you to edit html messages from phplist using FCKeditor. TinyMCE is also available.
• Internationalization. phplist is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Vietname and Japanese and translation work is in progress for other languages.
• Easy Install via Fantastico, FTP upload, or SSH.
• Multiple List Administrators. The super-admin can assign lists to List Managers, who can manage their users and lists. The super-admin user can 'prepare' messages that can be sent by list managers to their lists.
• Subscriber Preferences. Every email message contains personalized URLs for subscribers to update their preferences or unsubscribe. Subscribers can update their own information and keep your database up to date. Unlike most other mailing list managers, in phplist subscribers can change their email address.
• The User Management tools are excellent to manage and maintain large databases of subscribers.
• Bounce Processing keeps your database clean of unused and non-existent email addresses.
• Advanced Bounce handling let's you teach phplist to distinguish between permanent and temporary message-delivery errors. You can define automated actions on receipt of bounce messages according to matches with your regular expressions.
• CSV Import and Export. Use CSV and tab delimited files to import your existing list of users or to export the users on the phplist system for use in your in-house database. phplist's database has a 'foreign key' to help keep multiple copies of databases synchronized without duplicating users.
• Attachments can be uploaded and included in messages for download.
• Send a Web page. Tell phplist the URL of a web page you want to send to your users, and phplist will fetch it and send it. You can even put subscriber-specific parameters in the URL.
• RSS feeds can be automatically sent to a mailing list weekly, daily, or monthly.
• PDF messages can be automatically created and sent as attachments to ensure that your message is seen the way it was designed by all your subscribers, regardless of their email message reader.
• Batch Processing is useful in shared hosting environments. Set the maximum number of sent messages in a given time period.
• Throttling can limit the load on your server so it doesn't overload.
• Domain Throttling limits the number of emails to specific domains to keep on the friendly side of their system administrators.
• Scheduled Sending let's you tell phplist when the message is to be sent.
• Repetition. A message can be repeated automatically to send updated dynamic content and attachments.
• Text from HTML. Text email messages are managed fluently in phplist. phplist will automatically create a text version of an html message. Optionally the message composer can create it manually.
• PGP signing and encrypting (soon).
  Send your message digitally signed or encrypted, or both.
• Email to Fax (soon).
  Configure the details of your favourite email 2 fax gateway and phplist will send the HTML version of the message as a PDF attachment to your fax gateway. The fax will include the images in the HTML.
• Integration with other tools. Several systems exist on the internet that integrate phplist with your favourite CMS or blogging tool. Check out the Documentation for a list.

Source: http://www.phplist.com/details

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Videos

PHPlist Joomla Integration component - Basic Guide - Configuration & Users Import

Joomla! PHPlist Integration component - Using newsletter template to send a message

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Reviews (9)

All in this extension is great

bySnoT on 2009-07-09

Awasome extension with great support (answer immediatly) ! Does what is supposed to do ! The integration with CB is perfect, the importation with Acajoom is also perfect and finally the module for subscribing is really great. I recommend everybody who is looking for a bridge between Joomla and PHPList to buy this !

Works well, Awesome support.

bykrompir on 2009-05-28

I just downloaded and installed this extension today. I was able to connect Community Builder with PHPList without any issues. I did have one question on changing the displayed fields during registration, and support responded within one hour. Overall, great extension, great support.

Intention good, quality poor

bypkolenbr on 2009-03-12

So far I'm not impressed by this software. I already had phplist up-and-running but I was looking for an easy to use subscribe module. Jlord was the only one offering such a module so I decided to purchase a license. The biggest issue is that for mysterious reasons the developers decided to hard-code a major part of the user messages in the php files instead of putting them in a customizable language ini file. And that wouldn't be so bad if these messages weren't written in poor English. So I spent many hours digging into the code to find the right php files and edit the text into something sensible. I also ran into several compatibility issues: the module works fine in FF3 but when using IE7 I encountered major bugs. Finally I think the support can be improved. However they promise feedback by email within 8 hours for paying customers, it took me days to get in touch and no solution at all was offered for my issues. A bit disappointing. I think the intention of the developers to deliver a useful piece of software is good, but the quality can be improved a lot. At this stage the software is not worth it's money.

What a great component!

byMonyaMickle on 2009-03-11

I have been looking for a component like this for years! It installed perfectly first time, works exactly as stated, and the support is outstanding. Well worth the money spent.

Close to be the best ...

byj-amzen on 2009-02-26

This component is a very good one, serious and very well done, but still too poor for serious newletters projects. One major feature is lacking : the ability to match Community Builder fields with Phplist attributs and to copy one to the other. If you achieve that, no other component shall compete. Because all others Joomla Newsletters components are too weak for the needs of large sites, then Phplist is mandatory. A commercial component able to match CB and Phplit attributs would be a great hit. The developper, Thong Tran told us "your request is worth to try, and we will try with it on the next version." We really hope for it !

Component Good, PHPlist bad

bykray on 2009-02-08

The component is good, but PHPlist gave me nothing but problems. After 3 re-installs and over a week of troubleshooting I gave up and went to Acajoom. PHPlist forums were NO help at all, and Unfortunately JoomLord has no 30 day money back guarantee. Now I am out the money and have a component I will never use.

Excellent Extension

bydoncrawley on 2008-12-08

This simple extension is exactly what I've been waiting for. It installs easily, works flawlessly, and the support is excellent. The integration with PHPList and Community Builder is great. Thanks for an great extension!

Up there as one of the best Joomla components

bylw_d on 2008-11-30

This is one of my favorite Joomla components, the power of phplist with the ease of use of Joomla... nice. Great work.

It's a wonderfull component and support service!

bycespinoza on 2008-11-26

I was waiting for this component. At last voila! the phplist bridge for joomla. it works great!. You can select the lists of your phplist system and change the language to customize it. Excelent work, Excelent support service!

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