Seems like a big project to me and I don't see the benefit or at least much
benefit. You end up having to tokenize everything, build lists of tokens,
or store them in a database. Then you still have to add the functionality.
But that's already done if you are using iMail and looks like it might be
easier to get the tokens faster and more directly than parsing the web
pages.
If you want a different front end and you don't want to customize your own
imail templates then you'd be better off using ASP or CF and using premade
componets to send and pop. That could work with either iMail or any other
server. But you'd have a fighting chance to grap the imail users, boxes,
etc. There may well be those kinds of apps already available in php but
they likely would be for *nix servers.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:52 PM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Well... New generation of templates maybe ?!?
Hi !
I am thinking about a project which can be done with a lot of time. I will
tell you, because I am intersted if something like that exists.
I am using IMail5, so I will develop the thing for IMail5, unless someone
will give me the new version in change of a free template set :-)
That what we are thinking about is using php to read the pages IMail
outputs and change to content as we want it to be: For example we are
setting up a form by reading the output of IMail into php. So, we have a
variable with the whole content of the page. Than we keep doing that. We
have to change any input to a new adress. Let's say, someone clicks a link,
we have to change it first, that not the IMail-page is loaded, incase of
that a new php will be loaded but with the contet of the imal page changed
internal.
Hope you get that.
As you can guess, it offers many posibillities: At the backend of IMail, we
will use a database. With that system, we can set up a whole community
thing: using a database via ODBC, it makes it possible to use somekind of
signup scripts and to use data in anyform. Kind of adress databases for
example. Same time, we can put in the pages database driven input like
news, forums, whatever.
Great idea, we first will develop a system which makes it possible to read
the content of the pages, put's th elinks into an array to use it later and
have some templates which are used to output the content. Obvious with php,
that we can modify the content as we want.....
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