Postcards
Manic provides a free "postcard" CGI program which allows you to create
different postcards. Your visitors can send these postcards to their friends
or contacts. The postcard script allows your visitors to choose a picture
(from a set your provide), and specify a message to send to the recipient.
Instructions:
- Create a
postcard directory off of your /htdocs
directory.
- Also create a
/postcard/images directory.
- Upload several images (either .gif or .jpg) into this directory.
- Place a link to
/cgi-t/postcard somewhere on
your page, and try it!
- For privacy, add an index.html file to the publicly accessible directories.
Postcard lifetime:
Postcards are automatically deleted after 14 days.
How to modify the format of your
postcards:
You may wish to alter the appearance of the postcards which are sent. To do
this, create a file named template.html (NOT
template.htm) in the /postcard directory. The following
variables should be used inside your template.html file:
-
$email - the email address of the recipient
-
$from - the email address of the sender
-
$image - the URL of the image
-
$message - the actual message sent by the user
How to modify the actual "send postcard"
page:
(For advanced users only) To change the look & feel of the "send postcard"
page, visit the page, view source, and save. Make the necessary modifications
to the .html file, and re-upload to your site (at /postcard/postcard.html,
for example). Instead of pointing your users at /cgi-t/postcard,
link them to the location of your modified .html file.
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