Thanks for your reply Rishi, Our darn website is hosted on iPage. I'm about the only technical person in our very small, and new, club, and they don't want to change to a new host. I get moans and groans and no one wants to change, they want an easy Drag and Drop interface, though it drives me nuts and I'd move hosts in a heartbeat if I could.
So.. I have thought of modifying the form itself so it can write directly to a Database, but I'm not sure if my changes to the code would remain if someone else updates the pages with all their automatic junk. So the fewer changes I can make to the HTML itself, the better. The least intrusive way of doing this would be, I think, to catch the emails that the form generates and then do what I want with them. But alas, I've never done such a thing. Cynthia On Dec 1, 1:10 pm, Rishi Arora <[email protected]> wrote: > My app heavily relies on processing received emails, and even though I'm > just as good (or bad) at python as I am at Java, I chose python because if > its flexibility in string processing. The emails my app receives are in > hundreds of different formats and these formats change very often. Python > offers ease of initial development, and ease of quick and frequent changes. > Of course, these are personal preferences - experience Java developers can > possibly do things much faster than I can. > > But this is only part 1 of your problem set. Part is being able to save > generated and organized data in a Google Spreadsheet. I haven't developed > any such thing myself, but in my related research, I found things that > might interest you here (GData > Services):http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/howto/usinggdataservices.... > > Lastly, why would you have an email step in the middle at all. Your > current HTML form that people submit - where is it hosted? If it isn't on > Google App Engine, you can migrate it to GAE, and have the form directly > write to Google Docs spreadsheet. If migrating your HTML form to GAE isn't > viable either, consider making your form send URL encoded data in HTTP Post > requests to GAE, in a pre-formatted way so its easier to parse this data > and store in a spreadsheet. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Cynthia <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm brand new to Google App Engine and I'm not really sure I can get > > something that will do what I want. Or maybe I need to go elsewhere. I > > am a programmer by trade but I am still a beginner in many areas. > > > I am looking for a way to receive emails and parse out certain > > information, then save the info to a DB or a Spreadsheet. A Google > > Docs Spreadsheet would be fine, if that's possible. > > > Would Google App Engine be able to do this? Which language would be > > best? Maybe something like this already exists that I could use? > > > It's for a club membership list. People sign up with an HTML form, and > > the form emails the information to an email address. I want to pluck > > the data out of the email and have it save automatically. > > > Thanks, > > Cynthia > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
