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givemeyouremail Plugin

Compatible with DokuWiki

DokuWiki, since 2008-02-20

plugin Allow you to insert a form to give your visitors the ability to give you their email address (for a visitors' mailing list for example)

Last updated on
2009-01-12
Provides
Syntax

This extension has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues.

Tagged with email, form, groupmail

Description :

Allow you to insert a form to give your visitors the ability to give you their email address (for a visitors' mailing list for example).

Installation

Search and install the plugin using the Extension Manager. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

How to insert it in your page :

To insert the form in your page, just write the following tag : <givemeyouremail> , and save your page. Now your visitors can give you their email address in this page.

How to collect the email addresses :

New ! Version 1.1 ! The easiest way to collect the email addresses is to connect as admin in your dokuwiki site, and then load a page with the <givemeyouremail> tag , the addresses should appear under the givemeyouremail form. To collect all the email addresses, you can also download the adresses.txt file located on the plugin installation directory: lib/plugins/givemeyouremail/adresses.txt Alternatively, you can also find the addresses in data/meta/[a md5 hash].givemeyouremail

Make sure your web server can write files at these locations!

Download and Installation

Search and install the plugin using the Extension Manager. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

Update from a previous version

unzip the archive over your previous installation; from version 1.0 to 1.1, just copy the new syntax.php over the old one.

Versions

1/1/2009 : Version 1.0 : first version, email addresses collecting via a text file

1/12/2009 : Version 1.1 : email addresses collecting via a doku wiki page, when logged in as admin

Web

http://blog.dahanne.net

Hints/Prerequirement

You need PHP 5, cause using file_put_contents() …

Discussion

Is it possible to see whether providing an email is a prerequisite? For some forms it's easy to see from the context but sometimes not.