I have a Joomla site, on which site you can exchange ebooks. This is the feature I want to add, but don't know how:
When someone is interested in an ebook, he can click on a "REQUEST EBOOK" button.
The "request button" will forward an e-mail to the registered user and owner of ebook with a specific message.
Basically I need a script that does this:
"If I click on the "REQEUST EBOOK" button, take the email address of the ebook owner and registered user, compose a predefined message,and send it to him/her.
QUESTION: how could I achieve a similar result? Please keep in mind that I don't know anything about PHP.
Thanks a MILLION.
dimitri
PS: to get a better idea, visit http://www.ebook123.it. Thanks.
Joomla has lots of useful plugins/extensions etc, have a look at these contact forms and see which one you like the look of:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contacts-and-feedback/contact-forms
Some are very simple to use, others a bit more complicated.
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Heyhou!
I have tried to figure this out long time already, but no luck so far.
I have Wordpress site with mailchimp email form, so users are able to join my email list. The problem is:
-When user join the list, Mailchimp send automatically the confirmation email. I have edited it already to meet my requirements, but I need one more thing. I need to place URL where the joined user can download my free file, that URL needs to be one time url and it would redirect to my site where s/he can download the file.
Soooo, which way would be a best way to do that ? The main point is here that nobody can't start share the download link or page so users could download the file without to join my list. Poor English, hope you got the picture.
I'm web developer / PHP programmer, so plug in is not a must, (of course if you know one, let me know) I can make this by myself, but I need your help to solve the logic, how this would be done.
If I just place my website's download link in the Mailchimp confirmation email, there isn't anything which protect file. I need to somehow to crush the link after user is downloaded the file. BUT no manual changes in Mailchimp confirmation email.
There might be some super easy solution for this or not, anyway I'm stuck.
Thank ya!
I have used mailchimp previously and found the only way to push some data into an email, for this example a dynamic URL with a special access code is to set it as an extra bit of data on the users profile via the API.
http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/guides/manage-subscribers-with-the-mailchimp-api/
From when I last used Mailchimp you get 30 fields of custom data you can set on each user.
Hope that helps.
FB, having updated their API to disallow generic shares (Oct 2012), now require us to utilise built-in actions. Moving on from there, we can use Mention Tagging (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/mention_tagging/) to allow messages and mentions be created - this is all fine.
However, on the same page above they say "You must also describe step-by-step how users can add/remove tags in your app." - but they neglect describing what call must be made to the API to do so.
Has anyone else done this successfully?
Say I have a user who's mentioned 5 people in an action post. Then say one of them would like to be untagged. I provide them a link to allow them to untag themselves, but what call should be made to the API.
Has anyone got any experience at this? All help appreciated.
Paul G
Say I have a user who's mentioned 5 people in an action post. Then say one of them would like to be untagged. I provide them a link to allow them to untag themselves
I don’t think you have to offer a link for tag removal to the other users that have been tagged by your user. Standard FB functionality through the facebook.com UI should enable them to do that already.
It does not make much sense to me to offer such links on your own to people that have been tagged by your app’s user, but might not even be using your app themselves. (To ensure that they are legitimately requesting to be un-tagged, you’d have to identify them first – by having them connect to your app. I don’t think that’s how Facebook want it to be.)
To me, the intention of the guidelines is more to ensure that you are building a clearly understandable UI for your app, for the process of the user entering his message. If they start to type #PaulG, and you want to “translate” that into a tag, f.e. by highlighting it in the text edit box like it happens on facebook.com, then it a) has to be absolutely clear to your user, that they are tagging someone this way, and b) you have to give your user a way of removing that tag right there and then (before posting his message), in case he does not want to tag a user, but just have the characters “#PaulG” stand for themselves in his message.
i am building a small social networking and in every user profile page, should be a button that says "request contact details". if someone clicks on it, the owner of that profile receives an email that says:" user xyz asked your contact details".
i don't ask that someone finds me the solution, but can anybody give me a suggestion on how to get closer to this solution? i am studying right now php but don't know when will be able to accomplish this task
any help appreciated
Since you tagged the question with Joomla, I would assume you are using Joomla for your site. You will want to learn how to write Joomla MVC components -
http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_(MVC)_Component_for_Joomla!2.5
It would probably be helpful to know how to write modules and plugins as well -
module - http://www.minitek.gr/tutorials/joomla-16-tutorials/item/21-how-to-create-a-new-custom-module-in-joomla-16.html
Plugin - http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_content_plugin
When you get to that point, you will be using the built in Joomla class JMail to send emails with Joomla - http://docs.joomla.org/JMail/1.6
I see you are using Joomla. You could just tap into Joomla's mail by doing something like this -- http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_send_email_from_components
or if you prefer to do something custom phpmailer is nice -- phpmailer.worxware.com
I'm making websites for a company where users have to "register" with names and a lot of different information to attend the event. (It's a video-event - info would be name, e-mail etc.)
I now got a Wordpress webpage, at the blanket doesn't necessary need to be on the site, but can open in a separate window.
I need to, somehow make it easy for admin to look at the users who registered, send them e-mails etc. Make a list of everyone who register, for the admin to see.
How would be the easiest way to do this?
I know how to make a form, and pull the information into the database..
Any good ideas, plugins or examples??
Thanks
Joomla comes in with mass emails, although I have not tried it.
Have You searched on Wordpress plugins? They may have what you are looking for.
I want visitors to my website to fill out a contact form before they can access the downloads page. I am looking for online resources or examples. The only ones I can find are username and password authentication which I don't need. I am hoping to do it in PHP. At the moment my Contact form emails me their details but anyone can access the downloads page.
Thank you
You're not giving us much to go on!
Based on your tags I assume your developing in php. This tutorial should give you what you need Website Authentication - a simple PHP sample