Ecard module

nope, to my knowledge noone is working on such a module.

a user would have to contribute it. in forseeable time, we're working on bug fixes, downloadable modules and a lot of usability issues.

Has anyone been able to integrate g2 and ecard? It would in my opinion really add commercial value to the product.

I thought the orginal eCard released back when by Muggles functioned the best in Gallery. If I get time I'll dig it up and see what happens.

money doesn't work here. it's a matter of having time to write such things or not.

you still can offer some money in the services forum.

not really Go here and vote for it: http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote
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heh, the only problem you have is that our expectations might be too high since we know already siriux ;)

Wow, at least we are getting play on the subject. Thank you I know i'm not the only one, who is looking to have this functionality within G2.

Looking forward to the mod.

Thank you again

probably you already have, but make sure your email template is translateable (g->text).

- form data input: html? don't think so, but i might be wrong. all input is exactly what the user entered in UTF-8
when outputting data in templates, you can run it through smarty modifiers (truncate, ...)
and output is ran through our markup modifier, which does either html, bbcode or nothing.

modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class:
- smallest derivative: that's probably the thumbnail...or do you want the smallest resize? GalleryCoreApi:: has methods to fetch thumbnails / resizes for an item. if you want a resize, you can then use getWidth i guess to find out which one's the smallest.
- not generated derivatives: GalleryCoreApi:: has methods to rebuild... ifnotcurrent etc. that's the way to go i guess
- i18n: see docs/LOCALIZING make sure you use g->text in the tpl files, $gallery->translate in the php files. also see http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Translations

-feature suggestion: maybe also add a block such that you can have a sidebar block to recommend this site to a friend or something like that.

true, all input vars (GET, POST, ..) get filtered through GalleryUtilities::sanitizeInputValues which does the " -> " replacement.

there's also GalleryUtilities::unsanitizeInputValues if you need it...

hi,

was wondering if you have made any head way? Thanks for your effort this far. I'm sure many other silent gallery members are waiting as well for the outcome of your mod...

We'll if you are ready to share what you have i would be willing to try it on my site. If, you can code and could help nicokaiser it would be greatly appreciated..

hi nico,

got some feedback
(@coding style: i received the same feedback from bharat and mindless for my reviews, so don't be upset )

bugs / style:
- coding style: indention: after an opening { indent 4 characters on the next line, not 8 (set your tabs in your editor to 8 spaces)
- coding style: a few windows line ending
- coding style: a few lines with > 100 chars found
- i'd move unction _replaceKeywords into a helper class, remove reduncancy (controller / view)
- i guess i'd prefer plain html links and not buttons on the confirmation page "ecard sent, send another ecard, done"
- don't serialize / unserialize session data. the GallerySession does that already for you. plus, you get an error from php when you use it when the session->get returns null (unserialize can't operator on null, it needs at least an empty string) (-> develop for G2 with php error_handling set to E_ALL)

missing features:
- send ecards for albums / non photo items, e.g. just with a thumbnail (if available) and a link.
- "Send eCard" / "Preview" page should/could contain also the image your sending, i mean, it's a preview and you wanna know what you're commenting on when sending a card
- the from name / from email address should both default to the current G2 user's from name / email address (it should default already when loading the view and presenting it to the user for the first time)

i tested it and sent a single ecard from my gentoo box to my ms office 2003 outlook, this is what i received:
headers:

To: MYADDRESS1
Subject: You have been sent an eCard
From: %from%@tux.tux
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; type=\"multipart/alternative\";\r\n   boundary = "ecard435a369b6903a"
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ee.ethz.ch
X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER MIME error: error: multipart boundary is missing, or contains CR or LF

i replaced my address with MYADDRESS1 for privacy.
in site admin -> ecard, i put %from into the sender from field.

the email body itself didn't look alright:

--ecard435a369b6903a
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="ecard435a369b69807"


--ecard435a369b69807
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hi Johnny!

MYNAME (MYADDRESS2) has sent you an eCard:

Foo bar

foo

yeah

-- 
This eCard was sent with Gallery 2.0 - Your photos on your website
--ecard435a369b69807
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	<title>eCard</title>
</head>

<body style="background: #fff; text: #000; font-family: sans-serif;">

<p>Hi Johnny!<br />
<br />
MYNAME (MYADDRESS2) has sent you an eCard:</p>
<p>Foo bar<br />
<br />
foo<br />
<br />
yeah</p>

<img src="cid:435a369b6e626@localhost" border="0" style="padding: 2em 0;" />

<hr />
<small>This eCard was sent with Gallery 2.0 - Your photos on your website</small>
</body>
</html>

--ecard435a369b69807--

--ecard435a369b6903a
Content-ID: <435a369b6e626@localhost>
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo_001.wmf"
Content-Type: image/wmf; name="foo_001.wmf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gA2IEltYWdlIGdlbmVyYXRlZCBieSBFU1AgR2hvc3RzY3Jp
cHQgKGRldmljZT1wbm1yYXcpCv/bAEMACAYGBwYFCAcHBwkJCAoMFA0MCwsMGRITDxQdGh8eHRoc
.... etc. a lot of binary data

maybe i should have tested it with a jpg and not a non-web-viewable wmf file?

this http://dev.nei.ch/SendEcard.inc.zip file has fixed indention and removed serialize / unserialize. didn't fix anything else though. just wanted to show what i mean with the indention (you'll have to switch your tabs to 8 spaces).

Re "coding style" (and your version of SendEcard.inc): there are still tabs in it?!? In my opinion a mixture of tabs and spaces is not good, either "indent by <n> spaces" or "indent by 1 tab"...

@indention:
in G2, we define tabs to be 8 spaces. in code editors like eclipse, emacs, ... you can configure the width of tabs. in your editor it's seems to be set to 4 spaces, which is not ok for G2.
emacs can be configured to automatically replace 8 spaces by a single tab (smart tabs) etc.
when writing g2 code, i don't have to think about such things at all. i just use the g2 mode for emacs (written by bharat) and it does everything for me.

@showing the image in the preview:
see album.tpl or photo.tpl of themes, there we also show the image... you can use the same smarty code in your view.

@urls:
if you want to include the URL to the photo / photo page somewhere:
global $gallery;
$urlGenerator =& $gallery->getUrlGenerator();
$urlGenerator->generateUrl('view' => 'core.ShowItem', 'itemId' => $itemId);
or
$urlGenerator->generateUrl('view' => 'core.DownloadItem', 'itemId' => $itemId);

Dude,

Sweeeeeeeettttttttt!!!!!!!! inline graphics nice! Wow thats great work. Thanks so much I can't wait to see the finished product.

Did i mention thanks!

cow736: Strange. Is the picture in the 2nd, 3rd mail missing or is it broken (empty file, etc.)? Can you forward such a broken mail to me (or send me a card ;-))? I'll have a look at that.

Maybe it has to do with derivatives not being generated, but the plugin should generate any missing derivative before trying to fetch it from the filesystem and attach it...

just a few ideas for additional ecard features

http://www.care2.com/ecards/build/8/3423069/http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/63/102606288/YA_Me_N_DA_Family_/IMG_0151.JPG.html

(they're using a G2 alpha 2 version which was heavily customized)

I installed the ecard module, keft the setting at the default and sent an ecard to myself.
On receiving its all text based. Any ideas on why and what I need to do to fix?

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative";    boundary = "ecard4373c371af6cd"

--ecard4373c371af6cd
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="ecard4373c371b11d5"


--ecard4373c371b11d5
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hi Jack!  Mike (test.1@gmail.com) has sent you an eCard:

Here's Mikey!

-- 
This eCard was sent with Gallery 2.0 - Your photos on your website
--ecard4373c371b11d5
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	<title>eCard</title>
</head>

<body style="background: #fff; text: #000; font-family: sans-serif;">

<p>Hi Jack!<br />
<br />
Mike (test.1@gmail.com) has sent you an eCard:</p>
<p>Here's Mikey!</p>

<img src="cid:4373c371b3117@localhost" border="0" style="padding: 2em 0;" />

<hr />
<small>This eCard was sent with Gallery 2.0 - Your photos on your website</small>
</body>
</html>

--ecard4373c371b11d5--

--ecard4373c371af6cd
Content-ID: <4373c371b3117@localhost>
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="DCP_3397.JPG"
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="DCP_3397.JPG"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

/9j/4SVmRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgACAEPAAIAAAAWAAABsgEQAAIAAAAhAAAByAESAAMAAAABAAEA
AAEaAAUAAAABAAAB6gEbAAUAAAABAAAB8gEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAITAAMAAAABAAEAAIdpAAQAAAAB
AAAB+gAAB5YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It looks as though \r\n are already in the code. Did you browse over the code for the ecard module in G1? Perhaps looking over the original ecard code may give you some clues. Particularly the htmlMimeMail.php file.

Well I reinstalled it and now it's working very well. Maybe I screwed something up the first time. Nice module! I'm looking forward to new versions with more features.

When i try to send te ecard i get the following error:
Error (ERROR_UNKNOWN) : Could not send mail to

in modules/core/classes/helpers/MailHelper_simple.class at line 102 (gallerystatus::error)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 2543 (mailhelper_simple::sendtemplatedemail)
in modules/ecard/SendEcard.inc at line 185 (gallerycoreapi::sendtemplatedemail)
in main.php at line 174 (sendecardcontroller::handlerequest)
in main.php at line 87
in main.php at line 80

Hope someone can help me out with this!

I am having some problems with the mail that is being sent.
This is from gmail.

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

  boundary = "ecard437ce83d8202d"
Message-Id: <20051117202949.F01E82D7D13@mp3.breakbeat.is>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT)

--ecard437ce83d8202d
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Addi!



Arnþór Snær (arnthorsnaer@gmail.com) has sent you an eCard:

Here is some text

--
This eCard was sent with Gallery 2.0 - Your photos on your website
--ecard437ce83d8202d
Content-ID: <437ce83d834ab@localhost>
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ph_lineup.jpg"
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="ph_lineup.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRofHh0a

HBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJCQwLDBgNDRgyIRwhMjIyMjIy

MjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCAFFAoADAREA

Any thoughts on what the problem could be ?

Well I installed this Module today and it works GREAT! My only complaint (and it is a msall one) is that I would love to be able to specify multiple recipients perhaps comma seperated.

If anyone could help make that happen it would make this perfect.

Thanks!!

I have to take a look at Mac OS X and line breaks (together with base64 encoding)...