eCards scripts...

[George W. Bush]

Do you know of any good scripts that allow you to send eCards. Also, would PHP be the most viable choice for an Apache server running on Unix? What about Perl? Would that be a tougher process than PHP (ie. setting permissions and such). Similary, also looking for a poll? Would PHP be the best choice?

[jonsteele]

I'd use PHP for everything. I don't know much about perl, but PHP would definitely (imo) be easier.

What do you mean by eCard? like the user fills out a form and a greeting is emailed? it would probably be easy to write your own app. Do you need images/******/etc attachments and everything? if so a database app would be the best way to go: mysql & PHP.

Jon.

[George W. Bush]

Yes, ecars. Where one would have a selection of images, select one, fill the form and have that information send to an email. But does it need to use mySQL? Is that simpler than using images from a certain location (ie. a directory)?

[jonsteele]

I guess for a simple one you could read the images from a directory and display them, but a database would be faster, better for larger apps (if you plan on adding more) and easier to maintain (if you plan on adding a lot later on). You could have a table in your db with all the info associated with a certain ecard: id, name, date added, number of times this card used, location of image, auto-text along with it, etc.

If you don't have mysql on your server I guess you could work something out using just php.

Jon.

[George W. Bush]

A good tutorial is located at www.devshed.com They have a lot of resources on PHP and mySQL, so people, if you are interested in this stuff... go and read up!