Sign-upness

The other day my pal Sam asked me how I managed the Fever notification sign-up page. He wanted to do something similar for a new project he’s working on. So I sent Sam my source code and we decided that others might benefit from this simple solution. The States My sign-up pages usually have three states: The sign-up form The status message for subscribers The unsubscribe message for the dearly departed All three states are served from the same page. Which state is displayed depends on an optional query string and the presence of a cookie. The Workhorse I’ve been using Campaign Monitor ever since Mint ’s user base outgrew PHP’s native mail() function. It’s a great service, reliable, easy to use and reasonably priced. Campaign Monitor provides a simple HTML form that you can copy/paste into your code and allows you to specify urls for custom subscribe and unsubscribe confirmation pages—which conveniently covers...