Both PhpMyadmin and PHPlist are running on my hosts server

I need someone to get them working together and to possible walk me through it, I don't know how they link to each other and my site. I try to do as much as I can with running my website but I am not a web person and need to hand this over to someone else! I am sure with some help I could get on with it.

If you can help please let me know your fees.

Jacob

jacob@capoeiracanal.co.uk

I'm a little confused as to what you are requesting to have done. phpMyAdmin is a database management application, and phplist is a newsletter application. You said you have them configured and working correct, so what's left to do? Are you wanting to brand phplist to your design, or do you need help with the settings within phplist.....or are you unsure of what steps should be taken to setup phplist?

Ops!

So don't I need both programmes in order for people to join a mailing list on line and for them to be sent newsletters? I thought the programmes work together?

I think I can brand phplist to my design though I am not sure as to where the files sit/file extensions (hope you understand!)? I need help with the settings and setup.

I tried to create a new data base but it says no privileges, then I tried to import a csv file into an existing database and got stuck.

there is one data base that has tables from phplist if that makes sense? all the fields match.

This post has been edited by Jacob.R: Aug 3 2008, 03:56 PM

This is a screen shot of the data base.

No, you just need phplist.

phpMyAdmin is only needed if you want to perform low level operation on your database.



You don't need to create a new database. Judging by the image you attached you have the database already set up. And normally you don't need to import any data directly into the database either.

If you have an existing list of users, you should use the phplist interface for doing so. You can read http://docs.phplist.com/ImportUsersInfo
on how to do this.



That is the one that phplist created during setup. Don't touch it unless you know exactly what you are doing.
If you have already modified it and phplist is not working properly, I would suggest deleting all the tables and reinstalling phplist again.

what are these? so phplist is a data base



I want to send news letters to specific groups e.g. members and Parents. Don't I need to create separate data bases to do this?



How does it do that? do they speak to each other?

Thanks a lot!

No, phplist is not a database. It creates a database using a database server.

There is a program called MySQL running on the server. MySQL is the software that actually manages the databases. phplist communicates with MySQL for everything concerned with the database.

phpMyAdmin is just a different program that also communicates with MySQL and provides you with low level access to the databases kept by MySQL. But phpMyAdmin doesn't own the databases.
In normal circumstances you don't need this low level access.



Again, no. phplist manages all that information for you. In phplist the groups are called lists. You can create lists and users can subscribe to different lists. So you can create lists called members and Parents and send newsletters to each of these lists individually.
Read here for a full documentation of phplist.



During setup phplist speaks to MySQL to initialize the database and put some configuration data into it.

Cheers!

If you still are having problems getting everything working, I'd be willing to help ya get things setup! Just send me a PM and I'll help you if you still don't have things working yet!