Confirmer.cgi UPDATED 5/16/2000*

This program is a nifty little addition to Bruce's famous CARD.CGI script. This program will send a confirmation message to the sender when their card is picked up. Recognize that these changes make the confirmation an automatic function. And that the sender will get a message EVERY TIME THE CARD HTML FILE IS VIEWED. Even if they are previewing the card that they just created, they will get a confirmation.

I realize that this leaves out a lot of features:

• Can the sender enable/disable this function?
• Can I only send one confirmation, then not send any more?
• Can I only send the 'real' confirmation and ignore the preview?
• Can I keep track of how many confirmations I have sent?

These are all functions that would be supportable if the card html's were being stored in a database OR if I did some heavy modifications to the CARD.CGI script itself. With the program as it is, you are only adding ONE LINE to the original code. I will write to Bruce and see if this is a function he would like to include in a future release, heck, I might even get to write it myself : )

*There were a few errors in the previous version of the script. Specifically, I hadn't closed out the command on line 36 with a semi-colon and I was not escaping the characters from the input. The script was choking on a bunch of non-sense characters.

Download Zip File <- New version online now.

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