AyerSoft Home Page
Perl Studio Home Page.

Practical Automatic form and Database Report Tools


This perl postcard script allows user's to send any image in a electronic postcard. Postcard information is stored in a flat text file database and the HTML postcards are created on the fly when a user clicks on a href link from their email message to claim a postcard. One script file to handle designing, previewing, redesigning, sending, and viewing the electronic postcard.
Features:
  • Create as many postcards as you like.
  • Hyper link a image with a href tag for including in a postcard.
  • Top ($headerFile) and bottom ($footerFile) html files can be displayed on all web pages for displaying your banners.
  • Preview your post card before you post it.
  • Allows multiple email addresses for recipients.
  • The easiest installation and customization of any postcard script on the internet.
  • Expired cards will be automatically removed from the database based on the $maxdays variable, set in the script file.
  • Can include Organization link in all email messages.
User Configurations in script file
  • $DBFile = "postcard.txt";......The flat text file for storing the PostCard entries
  • $headerFile = "";..............Optional The html code to display at the Top of all web-pages
  • $footerFile = "";..............Optional The html code to display at the Bottom of all web-pages
  • $organization = "http://www.yourserver.com/";.....Your Company/Organization URL
  • $mainTitle = "My Postcards";...........................The title for your PostCards
  • $mainDir = "http://www.myserver.com/";..........Your home, main, or base URL
  • $EmailSender = "yourname\@yourserever.com";....................Your email address
  • $maxdays = 7;..........................................Maximum number of days before Post Card expires
  • $GetPostCard = "http://www.yourserver.com/cgi-bin/postimage.cgi";....The URL of the script file
Send an image in an postcard example

picture 1

picture 2

picture 3

picture 4

picture 5

picture 6

picture 7

picture 8

picture 9


Perl Studio Home Page © Copyright 2000 AyerSoft Company