User:Andre Castro/prototyping/1.2/traces

Links

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcwxmjc8_17pr7bbsgz original text

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

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

******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>

******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

#! /usr/bin/python
import lxml.etree, urllib2
#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
#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)

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

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

# 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

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

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

Email the sections