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Postcards Plugin Available -- soon
Ok... I've had a few requests in the past couple of weeks for this, so I sat down to try to make it work.

Right now, I have the script working with 2.1.1 (it seems), and it should be pretty stable.

I can't find the plug-in module, so I'm trying to create an install.pm file at this point.

What's missing is the "view database" routines, and some automated features for pruning the database. These were lost in the crash, and have to be rewritten.

What it does is pretty much available on http://postcards.com

You only need to pass it a URL to an image, and it does the rest.

It uses the "new" Links SQL format of a small .cgi file and a big .pm file. It also uses Links SQL's internal date module, so external modules are required any longer.

It's controlled with template tags. You pass in all the information via the templates and hidden tags, and you should not have to edit anything in the program, or even a configuration.

What I'm trying to add to the plugin configuration is auto-age/expunge cards, and things like that. These were lost, again in the crash.

Parts of that are in some of my other plugins, so I should be able to integrate them soon.

It installs almost trivially by hand, the design goal was to make this as simple as possible, with as much power as possible, letting the script do all the work.

I'm adding in full support to take a Links ID number, and map that to a URL field, as well as accepting the URL parameter directly. This way, if you use Links SQL as your postcards database, you can pass around ID's, though it works better, and somewhat faster, logically, to store the URL in the postcards record, rather than the Links ID. The small savings in storage isn't worth the overall performance hit. *BUT* the advantage of passing in the Links ID (as well as the URL) is that you can link the post card to other data in the Links ID == such as sales information, copyrights, and more.

Cost is $45, and the only way we can accept payment at this point is via fax (credit cards) or mail cash/check/money order. Drop me an email if you are interested. I'm hoping to have a payment gateway on-line, once my account rep gets back from vacation.

Understand that your purchase of this program is greatly appreciated.

To show our appreciation, anyone who purchases the program now, will get free upgrades through all future versions. Once I have time to announce a new version, the price may go up for the new/added features, such as address books, favorites, unsends, and more. These have all been partially written, and I've actually been stalling for Gossamer Community, before implementing them.


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