Text input fields and notify via email?
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lightstudio
Joined: 2008-05-12
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Posted: Mon, 2008-05-12 01:12
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Hello everyone and thanks for taking the time to assist me with this if at all possible. Essentially, we use this tool to post picture proofs for our studio. I am trying to create input text fields at the "photo" level (larger image format), so individuals can update personal details then click a submit button to email those changes to us. I'm not sure how to go about this. I am trying to create as many input fields as needed, then have that info shoot across an email to our address. Along with that email would be the section's general details as to where it came from(i.e. school gallery, particular individual old info, etc.). The place of interest currently is Smith college Year book proofs. Please take a look if you may have a solution for this need. The url is as follows. http://www.thelightstudio.net (located in Info/Proofs gallery) |
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write (or have someone write) a module to display a block with the required form fields and email the contents to you when a button is clicked.
As long as you don't want this information stored in the Gallery db (just emailed to you) it should be relatively straightforward. If you don't want to do it yourself you could advertise in the marketplace section for a programmer, or pm me for a quote.
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Well, now that you've mentioned that element of storing it with the photo's DB info (until not needed anymore), could prove to be a bit more useful! Perhaps, do you think, there may be something around the "comments" module already in place that could suffice? I am interested in a customized element. However, I wondered if there may be something in the current 2.2.x version available that can be "hacked" to accomplish what I need.
I am interested in what you might have in mind for a quote as well
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There are a lot of different ways of doing "something along those lines" - some of which would involve hacking existing modules, some of which might not. If it were a requirement of my own, I'd write a module to do what I wanted, but then I'm (reasonably) familiar with the Gallery structure and feel comfortable doing something like that, after all my work with the Checkout modules. Again, speaking only personally I'd actually find it easier to write a new module than a)investigate and b)implement a hack on something else, so I can't help further along that road (perhaps someone else will come up with some suggestions though). Perhaps, in your position, I'd start it off entirely separate to the Gallery structure, in the first instance, by including a php block that has a regular html form whose action element uses an easily-sourced php script that you can put on the server to email you the contents - there are hundreds of thousands of pages on Google to help you with that, and later you could rework it into Gallery without changing the look-and-feel.
Some (very general) advice is to avoid spending a great deal of time/effort/money implementing a heavy technical solution until you've proved the requirement. Initially implement only the absolute bare minimum until you're sure you're going to get sufficient replies to make it worth the time to 'automate' and 'complexificate'. Because a pound to a penny you'll have to rework whatever you put in place in response to what actually happens.
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Understood.
However, it looks like the "comments system could do as we need. I just wish I could modify/customize that system to send a user (Administrator) an email each time there is a comment added to any "Photo" level image. In addition, perhaps personalizing the comment system in terms of what it reads is the next thing I'd like to look for. If you have info regarding customization of the comment system and perhaps a hack for having the server mail the "Admin" an email when a comment is left, that would so do it.