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=Trance= | |||
<b>About the project:</b> | |||
Traces is a story written by Giulia Ciliberto, | |||
told by email in short parts, one per day | |||
==Links== | |||
''' | |||
Front-end: | |||
http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~slorusso/traces/''' | |||
Form handler: | |||
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_form_handler.cgi | |||
Text: | |||
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-text.txt | |||
email-database.xml | Database: | ||
<source lang="xml" | /home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml | ||
==Part1 Form and email subscription into database== | |||
Form handler: | |||
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_form_handler.cgi | |||
* users subscribe their email address in front-end | |||
* html page calls traces_form_handler.cgi | |||
* cgi receives email address appends it within the today's date node in traces-database.xml | |||
<source lang="python"> | |||
#!/usr/bin/python2.6 | |||
import cgi, cgitb, lxml.etree, datetime, os | |||
from datetime import * | |||
date_now = datetime.now() | |||
today = date_now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") | |||
date_delta = timedelta(days=22) | |||
date_old = (date_now - date_delta).strftime("%Y-%m-%d") | |||
print date_old | |||
# Create instance of FieldStorage | |||
form = cgi.FieldStorage() | |||
# Get email from form | |||
email = form.getvalue('email') | |||
#APPEND EMAIL AND DATE TO XML FILE | |||
if os.path.exists('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml'): | |||
#open file | |||
doc = lxml.etree.parse('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml') | |||
entries = doc.find('entries') # find root element | |||
node_today = '//date[@date="'+ str(today) + '"]' | |||
old_node = '//date[@date="'+ str(date_old ) + '"]' | |||
#remove outdated addresses | |||
for outdated in doc.xpath(old_node): | |||
outdated.getparent().remove(outdated)# here I grab the parent of the element to call the remove directly on it | |||
#check if todays date element is present | |||
if today not in doc.xpath('//@date'): | |||
date = lxml.etree.SubElement(entries, "date", attrib={'date':today} ) #append date SubElement date | |||
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(date, "address")#append grandchild | |||
addrs.text = str(email) | |||
else: | |||
test = doc.xpath(node_today) | |||
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(test[0], "address")#append grandchild | |||
addrs.text = email | |||
doc.write('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml',xml_declaration=True,encoding='utf-8') #write | |||
else: | |||
#Create a new file | |||
root = lxml.etree.Element('email-address') | |||
entries = lxml.etree.SubElement(root, 'entries') | |||
dates = lxml.etree.SubElement(entries, "date", attrib={'date':today} ) #append date | |||
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(dates, "address")#append grandchild | |||
addrs.text = str(email) | |||
tree = lxml.etree.ElementTree(root) | |||
tree.write('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml', pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True,encoding='utf-8') | |||
tree.close() | |||
</source> | |||
== | ==part2 and 3 Days calculations and sending emails== | ||
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_date_email.py | |||
Script which parses xml database. Checks the dates and email address under each | Script which parses xml database. | ||
Checks the dates and email address under each date. | |||
According the date decides what part of story will be send | |||
<source lang="python"> | <source lang="python"> | ||
#! /usr/bin/python | #! /usr/bin/python | ||
import lxml.etree, | # coding: utf-8 | ||
#Script | import lxml.etree, re | ||
import smtplib, email.utils | |||
from email.mime.text import MIMEText | |||
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart | |||
from datetime import * | |||
# Script that: | |||
# 1: parses xml database. | |||
# 2: Checks the dates and email address under each date | |||
# 3: Sends the corresponding email part | |||
#CRON IT FOR 1 x per Day | |||
text_file = open('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-text.txt', "r") | |||
text = text_file.read() #CONTENT INTO VARIABLE !!!! | |||
text_splited = text.split("\n\n@\n\n") | |||
print text_splited[0] | |||
print '##' | |||
print text_splited[1] | |||
print '##' | |||
print len(text_splited) | |||
f = ('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml') | |||
database = lxml.etree.parse(f) | |||
dates = database.xpath('//date') # database find dates | |||
#create the dictionary {date: [address, address]} | |||
dateDict = {} | |||
for date_subscription in dates: | |||
date_is_attr = date_subscription.get("date") | |||
myAddrs = database.xpath("//date[@date='{0}']/address/text()".format(date_is_attr)) | |||
dateDict[date_is_attr] = myAddrs | |||
#print dateDict | |||
#creat list of 19 day dates, today and before today | |||
dates = [] | |||
for day in range(20): | |||
date = date.today() | |||
delta = timedelta(days= day) | |||
subtract = date - delta | |||
dates.append(str(subtract)) | |||
print dates | |||
#checks the dates when emails were subscribe | |||
print | #matchs them with the dates list | ||
#sends the corresponding email part | |||
for date in dateDict.keys(): | |||
print date | |||
for i, value in enumerate(dates): | |||
# | if str(date) == value: | ||
email_addrs = dateDict[date] # list of receivers | |||
print email_addrs | |||
email_body = '<html><body><div style="text-align: center; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px;"><br/><br/>@<br/><br/>' + text_splited[i] + '<br/><br/>@<br/><br/></div></body></html>' | |||
# | msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative') #Create Multipart msg (allows html) | ||
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net')) | |||
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net')) | |||
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces @ part#' + str((i+1)) | |||
part_html = MIMEText(email_body, 'html') | |||
msg.attach(part_html) | |||
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') | |||
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server | |||
try: | |||
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', email_addrs, msg.as_string()) | |||
finally: | |||
server.quit() | |||
</source> | |||
==Examples on sending email == | |||
* <b>multipart email - allows imgs attachments</b> | |||
<source lang="python"> | |||
import smtplib, email.utils | |||
from email.mime.text import MIMEText | |||
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage | |||
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart | |||
#Reference: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html | |||
# address list | |||
addr = ['andrecastro@c-e-m.org', 'andrecastro83@gmail.com']#, 'silviolorusso@gmail.com'] | |||
msg = MIMEMultipart() | |||
#msg = MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the message.') #Create the message (simple ASCII) | |||
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net')) | |||
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net')) | |||
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces Multipart - test' | |||
msg.attach( MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the email') ) | |||
#attach a picture | |||
fp = open('animpnky_e0.gif', 'rb') | |||
img = MIMEImage(fp.read()) | |||
fp.close() | |||
msg.attach(img) | |||
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') | |||
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server | |||
try: | |||
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', addr, msg.as_string()) | |||
finally: | |||
server.quit() | |||
</source> | </source> | ||
== | * <b>text email - plain text</b> | ||
<source lang="python"> | |||
import smtplib, email.utils | |||
from email.mime.text import MIMEText | |||
# address list | |||
addr = ['andrecastro@c-e-m.org', 'andrecastro83@gmail.com'] | |||
#, 'silviolorusso@gmail.com'] | |||
msg = MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the message.') #Create the message (simple ASCII) | |||
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net')) | |||
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net')) | |||
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces plain - test ' | |||
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') | |||
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server | |||
try: | |||
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', addr, msg.as_string()) | |||
finally: | |||
server.quit() | |||
</source> |
Latest revision as of 15:05, 29 March 2012
Trance
About the project: Traces is a story written by Giulia Ciliberto, told by email in short parts, one per day
Links
Front-end: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~slorusso/traces/
Form handler: /home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_form_handler.cgi
Text:
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-text.txt
Database: /home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml
Part1 Form and email subscription into database
Form handler: /home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_form_handler.cgi
- users subscribe their email address in front-end
- html page calls traces_form_handler.cgi
- cgi receives email address appends it within the today's date node in traces-database.xml
#!/usr/bin/python2.6
import cgi, cgitb, lxml.etree, datetime, os
from datetime import *
date_now = datetime.now()
today = date_now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
date_delta = timedelta(days=22)
date_old = (date_now - date_delta).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
print date_old
# Create instance of FieldStorage
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
# Get email from form
email = form.getvalue('email')
#APPEND EMAIL AND DATE TO XML FILE
if os.path.exists('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml'):
#open file
doc = lxml.etree.parse('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml')
entries = doc.find('entries') # find root element
node_today = '//date[@date="'+ str(today) + '"]'
old_node = '//date[@date="'+ str(date_old ) + '"]'
#remove outdated addresses
for outdated in doc.xpath(old_node):
outdated.getparent().remove(outdated)# here I grab the parent of the element to call the remove directly on it
#check if todays date element is present
if today not in doc.xpath('//@date'):
date = lxml.etree.SubElement(entries, "date", attrib={'date':today} ) #append date SubElement date
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(date, "address")#append grandchild
addrs.text = str(email)
else:
test = doc.xpath(node_today)
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(test[0], "address")#append grandchild
addrs.text = email
doc.write('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml',xml_declaration=True,encoding='utf-8') #write
else:
#Create a new file
root = lxml.etree.Element('email-address')
entries = lxml.etree.SubElement(root, 'entries')
dates = lxml.etree.SubElement(entries, "date", attrib={'date':today} ) #append date
addrs = lxml.etree.SubElement(dates, "address")#append grandchild
addrs.text = str(email)
tree = lxml.etree.ElementTree(root)
tree.write('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml', pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True,encoding='utf-8')
tree.close()
part2 and 3 Days calculations and sending emails
/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces_date_email.py
Script which parses xml database. Checks the dates and email address under each date. According the date decides what part of story will be send
#! /usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
import lxml.etree, re
import smtplib, email.utils
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from datetime import *
# Script that:
# 1: parses xml database.
# 2: Checks the dates and email address under each date
# 3: Sends the corresponding email part
#CRON IT FOR 1 x per Day
text_file = open('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-text.txt', "r")
text = text_file.read() #CONTENT INTO VARIABLE !!!!
text_splited = text.split("\n\n@\n\n")
print text_splited[0]
print '##'
print text_splited[1]
print '##'
print len(text_splited)
f = ('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml')
database = lxml.etree.parse(f)
dates = database.xpath('//date') # database find dates
#create the dictionary {date: [address, address]}
dateDict = {}
for date_subscription in dates:
date_is_attr = date_subscription.get("date")
myAddrs = database.xpath("//date[@date='{0}']/address/text()".format(date_is_attr))
dateDict[date_is_attr] = myAddrs
#print dateDict
#creat list of 19 day dates, today and before today
dates = []
for day in range(20):
date = date.today()
delta = timedelta(days= day)
subtract = date - delta
dates.append(str(subtract))
print dates
#checks the dates when emails were subscribe
#matchs them with the dates list
#sends the corresponding email part
for date in dateDict.keys():
print date
for i, value in enumerate(dates):
if str(date) == value:
email_addrs = dateDict[date] # list of receivers
print email_addrs
email_body = '<html><body><div style="text-align: center; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px;"><br/><br/>@<br/><br/>' + text_splited[i] + '<br/><br/>@<br/><br/></div></body></html>'
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative') #Create Multipart msg (allows html)
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net'))
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net'))
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces @ part#' + str((i+1))
part_html = MIMEText(email_body, 'html')
msg.attach(part_html)
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server
try:
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', email_addrs, msg.as_string())
finally:
server.quit()
Examples on sending email
- multipart email - allows imgs attachments
import smtplib, email.utils
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
#Reference: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html
# address list
addr = ['andrecastro@c-e-m.org', 'andrecastro83@gmail.com']#, 'silviolorusso@gmail.com']
msg = MIMEMultipart()
#msg = MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the message.') #Create the message (simple ASCII)
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net'))
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net'))
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces Multipart - test'
msg.attach( MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the email') )
#attach a picture
fp = open('animpnky_e0.gif', 'rb')
img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
fp.close()
msg.attach(img)
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server
try:
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', addr, msg.as_string())
finally:
server.quit()
- text email - plain text
import smtplib, email.utils
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# address list
addr = ['andrecastro@c-e-m.org', 'andrecastro83@gmail.com']
#, 'silviolorusso@gmail.com']
msg = MIMEText('This is the b@dy of the message.') #Create the message (simple ASCII)
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'readers@traces.net'))
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Traces', 'traces@noreply.net'))
msg['Subject'] = 'Traces plain - test '
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.set_debuglevel(False) # show communication with the server
try:
server.sendmail('traces@noreply.net', addr, msg.as_string())
finally:
server.quit()