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Postcard plug in...
Hi

I am working on a very simple plug in that will allow you to store images URL's , display them as images and send them to as many users as you wish in one click with a textarea for comments...

I WANT THIS PLUG IN TO BE SIMPLE...

So the feature I have are:

Ability to store images though the URL field.
  1. Ability to display the image..
  2. Users choice to Send as postcard.
  3. A Postcards page will display with the image, emails and names, and comment area..
  4. Tempaltes are (EC_send.html, EC_confirm.html, EC_email.html)
  5. Users Log in is not required...
  6. Admin can specify the number of e-mails users can send at a time.
  7. Ability to store the number of times an image has been sent..
  8. NO EMAILS are stored on database.


Please let me know how that sounds..

I am totally new at writing a plug ins so getting it up and running might take some time, beta users might be needed so if you are interested let me know..
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KaTaBd

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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Ok lets face it...

I have got all parts of the plug in working on mys ite..

(ecards.pm, ecards.cgi, ec_send.html, ec_email.html, ec_success.html).

The plug in will need to create two columns isImage (ENUm yes,No) and post card track....

How to put all those parts together into a plug in is a puzzle to me and i have to time to figure out..

I will post something here if I get around to get it plugged in...
Regards
KaTaBd

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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hmmm... interesting.

I've been waiting for my Postcards plugin to appear in GT's download area for awhile now.

Mine is set up to *not* allow mass mailings, store the image locally, and keep track of information in a separate database. My reasons for this have been to limit what a user gets in their mailbox, and to prevent spamming, and virus spreads.

Anyway, it's been ready for release for awhile, but so far no takers.

Future versions will include unsend (if not picked up), favorites lists, new-image notifications, address books, etc.

Because of the state of the Internet, logons are required, though in the current version you can disable that (no features actually require logon at this point).


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Re: [pugdog] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hi

See a demo:

http://www.2muslims.com/..._Gallery/index.shtml

I have decided to use a postcards script to achive the result i want..

Further clean up is needed but this is very much the script in action...
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KaTaBd

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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
I have no need for this plug in, but as a casual surfer, I think it would be good if you could get some kind of thumbnail thing going on? Perhaps hook into perlmagic or something? I find that I'm loading every image in hi-res on the index page.
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Re: [giovanni] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hi



That is a very nice idea..

Ihave that working with the postcard script itself..

but on Links SQL generated pages... Crazy, The users submit the image as a url then the globals recognize it as an image then display it...

If anyone out there knows of a way or a script that will work with links SQL to create a thumbnail to display and link to the real image that will be great...
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KaTaBd

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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html
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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Looks like a nice script. The only thing that is a disadvantage of using a url for a submitted picture rather than hosting the picture is the submitters ability to change the picture without your knowledge.

Lets say they submit a picture of a house. But after they see it up on the site they change it to porn (happens all the time by the way). Then you would not know even if you approved the image manually prior to making it available on site.

Just a heads up!Cool
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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hi,

You changed the look of your site again <G>

Your postcards links look like what I have on postcards.com, but you put your send form on one page (an option on mine) and used a multiple send feature like in the recommend_it script. I guess that could be another admin option.

The main differences is in how it runs, and what it does. My demo is at http://betterbeads.com to see the differences. This is set to integrate into the image gallery/multiple upload mod. Auto thumbnail features, and searchability, etc. The previous version under Links 2.0.1 is running on http://postcards.com.

Also, the point above is a valid one. Make *sure* any image being sent from your site is HOSTED on your site! Otherwise you need to have a disclaimer on where the image comes from. The AnythingGoes<sup>tm</sup> templates should have that disclaimer on them, and an option is to include an editable admin tag on all outgoing postcards "This image was not hosted on x.y.z server."


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Re: [pugdog] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hi Pugdog

They seem to be very alike ...

I WILL NOT BE OFFERING IT to public .. I think the postcard idea is yours and it should remain so.. Although i will be using mine.. Sly

The two problem I am having are:

1- The URl submission: users can submit their owne image since my postcard script atkes a url as an entry.. but the images we serve are on our site only...

Thanks for the tip about the CP, i will sure do it..

2- Auto thumbnails: Is my main issue... i have no clue how to do it through that script... or through any other way.. I will be having close to 1000 image running on the site and stored in LSQL database and I can sure use an idae to Auto thumbnail those images...

Thanks again for the tips and the whole postcards idea..
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KaTaBd

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Re: [katabd] Postcard plug in... In reply to
Hi,

Feel free to offer yours :) My comments are not about that... After all, my script was based on HamCards when Lee finally gave up and said his SQL version was never going to see the light of day, I made my own. He got really deep into HamWeather -- which is an awesome program -- truly major league. (Lee is who put me on to GT with Links 2.0 in the first place.)

We are just similar, but still different, as what I'm doing is *not* sending images, but only references to images. Also, I serve images statically, not via the jump.cgi script. Etc. This is how we work differently, internally.

I've got auto-thumbnailing routines working with netpbm as the conversion set. It requires a few (4 or 5) of the filters from netpbm, then the jpeg groups routines, and if you've got it, GD.pm 1.19 for GIF. Pretty much, though, everything is JPG through my thumbnail routines, since GIF is only really good for clip-art or line art.

Drop shadows and rotations only work on Unix, since they are (were?) shell scripts. I know that the authors of netpbm had been wanting to change the shell scripts to a portable format, but I'm not sure how far they've gone with it.

I've been playing with yogi's routines for uploads/attachments, and he's definitely on the right track ;)

His program is almost ready for prime time as a basic attachments system, different from my logo/graphic upload routines (putting a logo on a link), and what I have planned for the major Image/Gallery mod, which is really something which has gotten way out of hand <sigh>.

It's amazing how people can be working to the same (or similar) ends and still be so completely different in their end products.

Ian and I have been talking about him taking over parts of my existing routines and scripts, and maybe Yogi will be interested in working on a cooperative effort where I can put my image manipulation routines into his attachment sytem. It's a bit more complicated than that, since my routines were geared for displaying images, and treated non-image attachments specially. Yogis is more like for non-image attachments, and treats images specially, which is much more different than it might superficially appear.

Many people have mentioned Image Folio, and I found some old messages (and only parts of my script) where I had Links 1.13 cloned into doing an Image Folio display, with slides or thumbnails, and several easily modified templates for showing the thumbnail pages off -- (35mm slide format, vertical format, TGP format, etc).

Image Folio is based on many windows display programs, but works on the web. I haven't looked at it in a year (I bought it back in Jan 2001), so I don't know how far they have come, but at the time, it was one of the better ones, but still no where near good enough for Links SQL users ;) who demand the ultimate in features and flexibility, and an SQL back end :)

Basically, my time is extremly limited, but my needs have grown. If I can find people who want to cooperate in development, I have the ideas, the plans, and many fragments of working or partially working modules, I just can never find the time to put them all together and keep up with the changes in Links. There is a *lot* of grunt work that has to go into plugins, and programs, such as error handling, exception checking, install code, etc, and that is not a lot of "fun" and it's not glamourous, but it's necessary and time consuming. Figuring out the "tricks" is more fun, but making them work is again, grunt work.

I need to get this Image/Gallery thing working by December, since I have some deadlines with backers (who were killed in the current market). In addition, I need to get the shopping cart system with on-line order processing working. Aki is working on the shopping cart, I'm hacking a front end to let me add items in onto links (similar to images in a gallery, or postcards program) and I'm trying to keep it all in one direction and one set of reusable codes.

In other words, we need to have a successful holiday season.

Basically what I'm working towards:
1) upload images, files, etc and have good control over who sees them, and how
2) be able to attach multiple files to links, create image galleries, collections and series.
3) be able to provide rights, privs, rewards, access to USERS and ARTISTS/CONTRIBUTORS in an infinite array
4) control who can access the files, and how, and CHARGE for it
5) automate as much of the process as possible, using an amzing number of config options.

Pretty much, this has come down to coding. Most of the initial logic has been worked out, and was working, but it has to be re-done, and upgraded to the new links and to a portable modular system.


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