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Started 3 years ago by john
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contact form

john
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Hi Prit,

I just added a contact form to my test blog http://enbaires.com/pritlog_test/
The original idea was to allow a mail to be sent to the site admin
(mails are sent in html format. already tested and works well)

Now I want to add the possibility of authors being contacted by mail by converting the post author into a link that displays the same contact form but using the author's mail address.

Question: which db field stores the author mail ? Same question for admin one

I also plan to add an option on registration and profile for authors to decide if they whish to be contacted by mail or not.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Hi John .. this is a good idea. I am curious to see your code that makes html mails work. Mine worked on my testing, but it was not working correctly for you right? Can you post your mailing part somewhere for me to have a look?

The authors are stored in the flat file authors.txt and the field $authorsEmail will have the value in the program. So $authorsEmail[$authorname] will give you the email id of the $authorname.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Ok thanks Prit !

The contact form is an old snippet in my collection.
I used it many times because it always worked.
I placed the code in a txt > http://enbaires.com/pritlog_test/forprit/contacto.txt

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Thanks John. I was using almost the same code for sending HTML mails except that I had additional <html>, <body> tags in there. I tried your code and it is working perfectly fine.

For right now, I will keep the simple mail in Pritlog. I will think about the HTML mail in the next version.

But this code snippet will be useful for me.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Prit,
Could you provide a brief explanation about the nicEdit loading alternatives and also about the use of nicUpload.php in your code. Thanks :)

My latest additions:
- a goback link to return were you were after reading a post
- a script limiting the number of chars you can type into the title and categoty fields (using 60 and 25 chars) It displays chars left as you type.
- measuring execution time (displays at bottom of page)

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

What are the last 2 fields in the authors.php db ?
0 name
1 pass (md5)
2 mail
3 ?
4 ?

This is the code I'll try to read the db, does it look ok to you ?

$authors_db= "data/authors.php";
$i=0;
if (file_exists($authors_db)) {
$fp = fopen($authors_db, "rb");
$allauthors=explode("\n",fread($fp, filesize($authors_db)));
fclose($fp);
foreach ($allauthors as $value) {
if (trim($value) != "") {
$allauthors = explode($separator,$value);
$author = $allauthors[0];
$authorsPass = $allauthors[1];
$authorsEmail = $allauthors[2];
$??? = $allauthors[3];
$??? = $allauthors[4];
$i++;
}
}

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Hi John .. you can look at the readAuthors() function to see the fields. These are related to the activation code and also the indicator to check if the author has been activated or not.

Regarding nicEdit addons - It is actually hard coded to look for the addons and depending on which addon it finds, the nicEdit options and script url's are dynamically set. This is how I am using these addons for now.

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