Website question: form to collect details for a mailing list

[yorkie]

Several years ago forum member @Nick W very kindly made a mailing list feature for James Palmer's Retro Railtours website, but this no longer works.

I see there are appear to be free products on the market that claim to perform this function.

I am guessing we must have some website developers/mangers on this forum, and perhaps some of you can advise on this? Is there a particular solution you would recommend?

The information required is:

• Title
• Firstname
• Surname
• Email address
• Most convenient station (from a pre-populated list)

I think it just needs to produce a list for James to be able to download, e.g. in CSV format, or generate an email to James' email address each time someone signs up, or something like that.

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

(I know it's a bit of an obscure request for this forum, but it will be interesting to see who on here is into website design/management and it is for a rail-related website at the end of the day )

 

[telstarbox]

I think Google Forms would be sufficient and it is free.

Is the "most convenient station" option for all ~2563 stations or just a few?

It would collate a CSV file of all responses and could also email each time someone responds.

Here is an example:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6ZKYI8fEEcbjGhFl-bjsmIrmk706TczBb5LXze-Klk494YA/viewform

 

[yorkie]

I think Google Forms would be sufficient and it is free.

Is the "most convenient station" option for all ~2563 stations or just a few?

Just a few

It would collate a CSV file of all responses and could also email each time someone responds.

Here is an example:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6ZKYI8fEEcbjGhFl-bjsmIrmk706TczBb5LXze-Klk494YA/viewform

Thanks for the suggestion, will look into this

 

[najaB]

If you want something 'out of the box' then I'd second the suggestion of Google forms. Personally, I'd throw something like that together myself, it wouldn't take a massive amount of code, a simple PHP form and and a MySQL database.

 

[algytaylor]

Google Forms is a good option that'll be fairly hassle-free. I'd leave it as just "name" rather than splitting it up in to firstname/surname, though. Some people only have one name (eg Pele), Spanish folk have 4 names, Hungarians write their name "backwards" (Puskas Ferenc), ... it's easier just to let people write their name however they want to write it, unless you really specifically need to know their surname.