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[Jannetta S Lewis]

What I would like is to allow the user to select whether he wants to
include the body and also whether he wants it in plain text or html. You
can also have the variable you suggest which would basically allow users
to have the option or not. So, if you are worried about the traffic for
the site, you switch the option off in config.php and users won't have the
choice.

I however have two applications for wanting to send the whole body. The
first is for a personal site and the second is for a website I might be
designing for a client. We both want to be able to send a newsletter to
subscribers in a "nice" format, with pictures, as most readers have
windows mail clients. We also want the newsletter to appear on the
website, where new visitors can see it. I didn't want to re-invent the
wheel, but i wanted something fairly lightweight, hence my decision to use
Geeklog.

For the moment, I have just changed changed COM_emailUserTopics() and it
seems to be working fine. I'll start using it for the personal website
which is aimed at my family and friends, and see how they like it.

Can changes like these be contributed to the Geeklog code, or should I
just recommend it and hope the authors like it enough to take it up
themselves? I suppose I should now move my questions to the developers
list.

Jannetta



On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Yes, probably is worth it.  Personally, I think we'd have to add a new
> config.php variable.  Something like $_CONF['email_body'] that would
> indicate if stories should include the body or not.  Personally I don't
> like emailing the whole thing because it, essentially, decreases traffic
> on the site.
>
> If you add that variable and do a check before you add the body to the
> message I'd be willing to put the changes into CVS.
>
> --Tony
>
>  On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jannetta S Lewis wrote:
>
> > Hi Tony
> >
> > I have already done it. I was just wondering if it is not the kind of
> > thing that is worth taking up in the code permanently. Are there not other
> > people interested in doing the same thing?
> >
> > Jannetta
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> >
> > > If you know any PHP it is simple.  the COM_emailStories (or what ever
> > > function it is called) has a select that only gets the introtext.  Modify
> > > it to get the bodytext too, concatenate that after the introtext is added
> > > and you are done.
> > >
> > > --Tony
> > >
> > >  On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Jannetta S Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Folks
> > > >
> > > > In my previous message I asked whether it would be possible to send the
> > > > complete article. It doesn't look like the functionality exists in
> > > > geeklog, but I had a quick look and it doesn't look like it will be very
> > > > difficult to add. If it doesn't exist, I'll probably add some code to send
> > > > a complete article in text and/or html. Would others also be interested in
> > > > this?
> > > >
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Jannetta S Lewis
email: jannetta at henning.org
home page: http://bright-ideas.keystroke.info
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