User:Andre Castro/prototyping/1.2/traces

Trance

About the project:

Links

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

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

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

database in: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml

Part1 Form and email subscription into database

• online form: where users subscribe their email address

• cgi receives email address appends it within the today's date node in traces-database.xml

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

#!/usr/bin/python2.6
import cgi, cgitb, lxml.etree, datetime, os

today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d") #not sure is this is the best format

# Create instance of FieldStorage 
form = cgi.FieldStorage() 
# Get email from form 
email = form.getvalue('email') 


print "Content-Type: text/html"  
print                         
print "<TITLE>Form</TITLE>"
print "<H4>Your form was successfully added.<br />Shortly you will receive a message at %s </H4>" % (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) + '"]'
	 
	#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)
		doc.write('/home/acastro/public_html/cgi-bin/traces-database.xml', xml_declaration=True,  encoding='utf-8') #write
	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

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

According the date decide what part of story will be told

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#! /usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
import lxml.etree, re
import smtplib, email.utils
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
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('traces-text.txt', "r")
text = text_file.read() #CONTENT INTO VARIABLE !!!!

text_splited = text.split("\n\n@\n\n")


f = ('traces-database.xml') # ADD ABSOLUTE PATH
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(19):
	date = date.today()
	delta = timedelta(days= day)
	subtract = date - delta	
	dates.append(str(subtract))
 


#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 =  "\n\n			@		\n" + text_splited[i] + "\n			@		"		
			# EMAIL - (MAKE IT UTF-8)
			msg = MIMEText(email_body) #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 @ part#' + str((i+1))
			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()