User:Andre Castro/prototyping/1.2/traces

ok bambino

1st part seems to working

******part1******

Form and email / date appending email-database.xml

• online form
• cgi receives email address and appends it to email-database.xml file

• TO DO: Needs to be be a javascript protection checking if the input is an email: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~slorusso/email-form.html
• TO DO: date format not necessarily the best format - check others

email-database.xml:

<email-address>
  <entries>
		<date date="20120216">
			<address>test@test.org</address>
			<address>test2@test.org</address>
		</date>
  </entries>
</email-address>

• links:

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/form/email-form.html

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/cgi-bin/email_form_handler.cgi

******part2******

Days and Emails calculations

Other py script which:

• parse the email-database.xml (every day)

Script which parses xml database. Checks the dates and email address under each dat3.

According the date decide what part of story will be told

<source lang="python">

1. ! /usr/bin/python

import lxml.etree, urllib2

1. Script which parses xml database. Checks the dates and email address under each date

f = ('/home/andre/server-pzi/cgi-bin/traces-email-database.xml') # change to local

1. f = urllib2.urlopen('http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/cgi-bin/traces-email-database.xml') #ERROR! ??permissions

doc = lxml.etree.parse(f) print lxml.etree.tostring(doc)

1. for emails under the date 20120217 -> send PART#1

1. find dates

dates = doc.xpath('//@date')

1. for each date send one given part

date_is = doc.xpath("//date[@date='20120217']")

address = doc.xpath("//date[@date='20120217']/address/text()")

for nodes in doc.xpath("//date[@date='20120217']/address/text()"): print "Send email to " + nodes #email then sent

<source>

• check the dates
• see what section of the text needs to send to whom

******part2******

Email the sections