> Thank you for the response. However I have my wiki hosted by > tiddlyspot and do not have access to an outside server. I was hoping I > can do this within my tidlywiki.
You're question referred to PHP code. That is a *server-side* programming language with access to a server-based MTA (Mail Transport Agent) that dispatches the email. However, TiddlyWiki runs *client- side*, in your browser, and web browsers don't generally have a built- in MTA with which to dispatch an email. That is why they typically invoke a local desktop mail application to send mail directly from the client system. As a work around, you *could* try using a browser-based addon (not TiddlyWiki plugin) to add some MTA functionality so that the browser can send emails independently of any other application or server-side scripting. However, I don't think this would be a robust solution, as it relies on non-portable browser-specific technology. If you view the document from different locations (i.e., using different browsers) then you would need to have the same addon installed in all those locations in order to reliably use the 'send email' part of your document. In contrast, TiddlyTools' SendTiddlerPlugin takes a different approach: it allows you to "compose" the message locally by filling in a configurable HTML form definition directly in TiddlyWiki. When you submit that form, the information is sent to a *server-side* script (that you provide) to process that information any way you want, e.g., dispatching an actual email message, or perhaps just storing the information as a record in a server-side database. Of course, if you don't have access to a server to host a script, or you don't have the programming skills to write a script, then the above method would *seem* to be unavailable to you. However, in addition to sending data to custom-written server-side scripting, you may also be able to use SendTiddlerPlugin to compose and submit tiddler data **directy to some 3rd-party online scripts**, without need to have ANY programming access or skills at all! Here's a basic outline: Start by visiting the page with the online form, and view the *source* of that page to locate the form definition it contains. Next, copy the form definition from that page into [[SendTiddlerConfig]], and adjust the form 'action' so that it refers to the complete (non-relative) URL of the original server-based script that will process the form submission. Then, using the SendTiddlerPlugin-defined 'substitution' syntax, modify the form defintion so that the desired tiddler data is automatically inserted into the appropriate fields for submission to the server-side script. You can also edit the form definition to simplify the layout or make any other adjustments you want. Make sure to keep all the same input fields (with the same names) as the original online form, so that you can submit the TiddlyWiki-embedded form directly to the original server for processing in the normal manner. Hope this helps, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
