BroadFast v1.1

 

Overview

This document contains the full description of Broadfast script and its instalation.
BroadFast is extremly easy to use, fast, small and light but very powerful script for broadcasting, mailing list managements and sending newsletters.

Contents

 

Requirements

The script needs only web host with PHP 4 or above and MySQL database.

 

Installation

The installation of BroadFast is very simple and requires only few steps.

1. Upload the files on your web host
2. Create a database for use of BroadFast. BroadFast can also share the same database with other applications you may have on the host
3. Chmod folder 'inc' to 0777
4. Direct your browser to install.php.
Then you have to enter the database access parametters and to choose login and password for administrator.
That's all!
To use the script, point your browser to admin.php


Changing the design
You can modify all files from folder 'templates' with any wysywig or ordinary web editor and change styles.css for the stylesheets.

 

Using BroadFast

1. Create Newsletter/Broadfast
This is the default page which you see when you log in in the administration. Here you can broadcast all the users in your mailing list (the lists are described later below) or save the newsletter for further redaction and sending later. You can choose to send in text only or html format

2. Saved Newsletters
On this page you will see all saved newsletters sent or saved previously. You can edit or open any of them and use it again.

3. Manage Users
This screen allows you to edit your mailing list. You can edit and delete members, activate or deactive or add members manually.
Here you will find 2 other advanced features:
- Import/Export - it allows you to import members from Excell (CSV file) and export them into comma separated file
- Synchronize - This unique feature is for advanced users only. It allows you to integrate BroadFast with any other existing web application you may have. If you have a MySQL database with members you can synchronize the mailing list which you have in BroadFast with that database. In the Database Details section you should enter the connection values for the source database. If BroadFast shares the same database you can leave all these fields blank. The Members table details section is to enter the actual name of the table where the members data is stored. You also need to fill the names of the fields where the specific data (name and email) is stored and the system even allows you to use more than one field for "name" (for example your application may store the name in 2 fields - first_name and last_name)

4. General Settings
Here you can change the administrators password or to activate or deactivate online registration module. You can also set if you want the mails from broadcast to be sent immediately or via cron job (see below). You can limit the amount of mails sent per hour accordingly to your hosting limitations and to set delay between each mail (for the same reason).

- Sending the mails as cron job: If you want to activate it you need to schedule execution of sender.php once per hour




Version 1.1 New Features

- Double opt-in enabled - can be switched on or off
- Tracking of the emails available - you can choose to track the number of read mails and measure the success of various nerwsletters




Version 1.2 New Features

- Testing newsletter available - you can send to only one email instead of the entire list


Support

For any problems or questions contact me on admin@pimteam.net

 

License

This price of this script is as low as 15 minutes salary of any webmaster. For $ 14.95 you are allowed to use this unlimited times script in one domain and all its subdomains.

A Product of P.I.M. Team Bulgaria