Integrating an 'In Site' Address Book

Allowing members of a support site to email one another

[markd]

Hello all
I manage a Support web site specifically for users of a particular product.

It's a 'closed' site which is accessed by users with a username and password.

I would like to include a facility where users can send a 'private message' by email to one or more (or the entire list of users) in the group. The message does not need to be retained on the site for future reference.

I was wondering if anybody knew of a type of off the shelf 'address book' utility/JS which could be integrated in the site?

In this way, 'Fred' could enter their message in a form field and then choose to send it to 'Bill' and 'Mike', but not to 'Gerry'. Potentially, there could be a couple of hundred members in the support group, so any address book would need to be able to handle these kind of numbers.

The site is hosted on a Windows server, with a MS-SQL database.

Any thoughts very much appreciated.

[Rambo Tribble]

I suspect a better solution could be found with PHP, Perl, or ASP in conjunction with your database. With JavaScript you could do it, but I'd doubt you'd get the ease of maintenance that the database would give you. You'd have to enter the addresses into a script file and access would be all or nothing, whereas with the server side script you could retrieve individual names.

[markd]

Thanks Rambo

I must admit, I wasn't quite sure which category would be appropriate - maybe I'll post in the CGI/PHP thread.

Thanks for your advice