Hi Eric I *almost* made it work. I've installed http://www.stadtaus.com/en/php_scripts/formmail_script/ on my server and made all configurations right. I can send from the sendmail script directly in the browser. I tried using http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SendTiddlerPlugin and http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SendTiddlerConfig however I failed... I just get a blank page... Then I copied your TiddlyTools Contact- tiddler and modified it to fill the fields in my own php script.. Everything seems ok - anyway I get: "The form could not be submitted" Do you have a clue? Are there any free 3'rd party sendmail scripts you can use without having to host it yourself - out there?? Please give a hint if there is...
Cheers Måns Mårtensson On 27 Dec., 02:19, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
