Hi Justin,

I guess I can use send_dada_mail pl also to send a web page from a Perl script? Because many of my customers are using Dada to send a newsletter This newsletter is a HTML page which they can modify with a CMS system Something like:

use MIME::Lite::HTML; my $mailHTML = new MIME::Lite::HTML IncludeType => 'cid', From => "$in{'from'}", To => "$in{'to'}", Subject => "$in{'subject'}", my $HTMLContent = $mailHTML->parse($url);

open( DADA, "|/home/youraccount/cgi-bin/dada/extensions/ send_dada_mail pl --list mylist") or die $!; print DADA $HTMLContent ; close DADA or die $!;

Currently I let the customer automatically login to the send_url_email (Send a web page) screen from the CMS in a new window:

/cgi-bin/dada/mail cgi?f=login&admin_password='+password+'&auth_state=1&admin_list='+mylist+'&admin_option1=f=send_url_email&admin_option2=url='+newsletter_url;

I changed a few lines of code in sub "login" from mail cgi to pass options admin_option1 admin_option2 to the send_url_email URL which makes it possible to pass the url from the newsletter to the send_url_email screen And a few changes in sub "send_url_email" and the corresponding template of course

The result of this is: from the CMS you only need to fill in the dada password A new window is opening with Dada's "Send a web page" screen and the url of the newsletter is already filled in for you You only need to press the "Submit mailing list Message" button and that's it Because you are really logged in to the admin panel now, you can also Monitor your mailing right away

I guess you can do more interesting things when using a CMS and Dada together So my suggestion is to modify the login sub from mail cgi in such a way (as I already did) to make it possible to go to a specific admin screen and also passing some fields for this specific screen already

The extra code I am using in login: $referer = "$DADA::Config::S_PROGRAM_URL?" $q->param('admin_option1') if($q->param('admin_option1')); $referer = '&' $q->param('admin_option2') if($q->param('admin_option2')); $referer = '&' $q->param('admin_option3') if($q->param('admin_option3'));

just before the existing lines:

        print $q->header(-cookie  => [$dumb_cookie, $login_cookie],
                          -nph     => $DADA::Config::NPH,
                          -Refresh =>'0; URL=' 
 $referer);

Regards,

Frans

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dada Mail (Justin Simoni)" dada@PROTECTED To: dadadev@PROTECTED Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:50 AM Subject: [dadadev] new extension: send_dada_mail pl, new docs: moving towards multiple fields

>

Hey everyone -

two points:

I just completed the rough rough rough draft of a new extension, called, send_dada_mail pl, which is a small command line utility that will allow you to send a message to all your subscribers of a given list It works much like the sendmail command (and with a slight massage) - you could even replace the calling of the sendmail command with this little script, if you were devilish to - for example, say you have a form to email script Instead of sending the results to one person, you can now send them to an entire list of people and also save the info in Dada Mail's archive Or something

In a more less ridiculous example, say you have a Content Management System, that you'd like to hook up to Dada Mail so that it sends a message to a particular list, every time you update a section of your website -

On the command line, you'd type something like this:

prompt:]
/send_dada_mail
pl --list mylist
Subject: This is my subject!

This is my message!

-- Justin

^D

This should make it pretty insanely easy for local applications to send a Dada Mail message out In perl, this all would look like this:

!/usr/bin/perl

open( DADA, "|/home/youraccount/cgi-bin/dada/extensions/ send_dada_mail pl --list mylist") or die $!; print DADA "Subject: This is my subject!\n\n"; print DADA "This is my message!\n\n"; print DADA "-- Justin"; close DADA or die $!;

And the script now is like 150 lines, so nothing new happening, just reusing things

Second note, I've started typing out exactly how the multiple fields project is going to happen Things are fairly nebulous at the moment, but they're get more and more refined over time and then that'll be the start of the actual program files, scripts and modules

Both these will be released officially when the next version of 2 11 in the alpha series is also released That is most likely going to happen when 2 10 14 goes gold

So, interesting things coming up in the pipeline,

Any questions?

-- Justin Simoni

Dada Mail - Write Once: Distribute Everywhere Software url: http://mojo skazat com

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