Dividing Send Files into categories?

help with send files

[warrengeb]

I currently run a fundraising directory site and sell advertising to fundraising companies.

Each time a site user requests information be sent to them (via on site form), all sponsors recieve a copy of that request automatically with a send file.

I have expanded and will now have the site users pick out categories they wish to recieve information from. This way they do not get responses from all of the sponsors but just the ones who deal with the type of fundraising the user is interested in.

Question - I want to alert the sponsors automatically the way I did when all sponsors were alerted before but this time by category only. HOw can I do this?

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[edited by: tedster at 4:19 pm (utc) on Mar. 28, 2003]

[tedster]

This sounds like some straightforward server-side programming. First you would need a database which lists all your advertisers. That database would contain a field for each record that indicates which category an advertiser belongs to.

When someone signs up, your server side script would only notify the organizations that have that particular category in their database record.

Perhaps I don't understand your question fully, but I don't think there's a challenge on the HTML and Browsers side at all. You just need a series of checkboxes inside the sign-up form.