I would like to be send an email to an address that mediawiki can pick up and have mediawiki take it and generate a new page from it as a starting point. More complicated stuff like categories can come later.
I have searched around on the web and not found anything obvious.
I have not developed against mediawiki before but am an able and willing developer.
Thanks for any assistance provided.
There is this extension - EmailToWiki
It relies on a POP3 account being available and has been in Beta for a long time, but it may be a good start for what you want to do.
Have a daemon of some sort running on the server that picks up emails from an account (through POP protocol presumably), use the Mediawiki API to generate stub page.
Instead of a daemon, you could just have a cron job of some form.
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I want to build an simple gmail chat bot.
The bot reads the chat messsage of the recipient and responds it..
I have developed the logic for response to the message
but now im stuck with the bot configuration.
How to setup a gmail bot which can receive the message from chat window and give the message to me . and reply my message back to the person in chat ?
note: this question may seem duplicate but i have tried every solution to previous question i am unable to find a complete solution from scratch anywhere.
Hope any when can help me here.
You need to use the Google Talk API. More information can be found here. I have never used it before, but from what I read, you need to have to write your logic in a compatible language to interface with the API and build up from there. Very standard Google API docs, help, etc in the link.
If you know Python there is a library built for this purpose, bot allow developers to quickly and easily deploy bots. I highly recommend you use that. If you don't know Python, there is anoter guide here that explains how to do it with very minimal PHP/Perl code. If you don't know PHP or Perl, there is another resource here that explains how to do it in Node.js. IF you don't know Javascript, here is how to do it in Java.
I don't like publishing links to guides, but the API document should have been enough. These were all found with the Google search term "make a google talk bot".
I would like to create a program that does the following:
1. Monitor all emails received at an address that I own, e.g. subscribe#mydomain.com
2. Read the From and Cc fields and insert those email addresses to my database
3. Parse the body of the email to find a certain text, such as a 6-digit registration code (assume I already have the logic to do the parsing)
4. Reply the emails from a template that includes the registration code and some other data retrieved from my database
To make my job easier, I would like to leverage any relevant services out there (maybe SendGrid, apinbox.com, etc.). Ideally all the servers are hosted somewhere in the cloud.
My question: Can you recommend the best way to do the above? You can consider me a total newbie in developing such programs, so please be gentle :-)
I don't know anything about the services you mention but It's fairly easy to write an app to do basic emailing in VB.Net. The built in SmtpClient class makes it easy to send emails, and there's plenty of projects on codeproject.com that shows how to read emails (just search there for POP3). The POP3 protocol isn't very difficult to implement, but it can be a little bit more difficult to handle MIME encoded content, but as I said, the projects at code project should show you that.
However, reading your question more carefully it sounds like you just want to have some automated way of sending out registration codes. If so, it might be worth to check if there isn't already services that'll do that for you. I'd suggest looking into that at some forum for Shareware Developers. One group I've heard of is the Association of Software Professionals, they might have some forum or advice about that.
If you are interested in a hosted service to handle the email parsing and conversion to HTTP POST I would recommend looking at a few like: http://mailhooks.com (free) http://mailnuggets.com (not free, but new and cheap). If you consider yourself a programming newbie, I would consider posting to a simple PHP script to test it out, like this:
<?php
// put the code below in a file at yourwebsite.com/test.php
// and POST your email to it as a test.
$postArr = print_r($_POST,1);
$log = "postLog.txt";
$fh = fopen($log, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $postArr);
fclose($fh);
?>
This will log the posted contents to a file called postLog.txt. Some of the mail processing services mentioned above may also have sample code to help out.
I just asked a question about whether it was possible to write a web-page-checking code and run it from free web server, and one supporter answered and said that it was possible and suggested that I used Google App Engine service.
But he also said that there are no files there, so I would have to work with their database.
I wonder, if there is no such feature as creating files on that free web server, then is it possible to run from that free web server a code that would check a web-page every once in a while, record its HTML code, and mail it to my mail box?
It is totally possible on Google AppEngine.
I am not sure by you mean "no files" on GAE: there is definitely access to files but in "READ ONLY" mode.
What you have to do is fetch the remote WEB page (through urlfetch API) and use the email API to send it.
I'm trying to make a page with 2 fields (email and feedback) and 1 button. When the user clicks on the button, a table on a page else where is filled in with the data, permanently.
Does anyone have recommendations of how I should do this? I'd like to avoid having a script send me an email, or writing to a database. But if I have to, which ever is easier to configure would be prefered.
Thanks,
Matt
So you want a comments system like you find on most blogs? You'll need to store those comments somewhere, probably in a database. As for how to do it, that would depend entirely on what you already know and what the site is currently written in. You could use PHP and MySql if you already have those skills, or ASP.Net/SQL Server, or if you want to be down with the cool kids you can use Ruby on Rails or Python/Django.
If you post what languages you already have experience in, and/or what the site is written in you might get a more specific answer :-)
There're 2 types of scripts: server side and client side. The client side script (JavaScript) stores info only for particular visitor on his computer and this can't be seen by anybody else.
You need a server side script to save feedback on the server. The language or technology depends on the hosting server you use. Not all hosting services allows server side scripts. You need first to find out what scripting languages and technologies are supported by your hosting provider. Then we can help you more.
ADD:
For an unexperienced persons I recommend to search for hosting services which has most needed functionality. Something like blogs, etc. On such services you could create pages that will have comments and feedback and many more.
While it may seem outdated it's not necessarily a bad design. You can use PHP or Perl (due to it's string parsing capabilities) and simply store the main page on the disk.
Here's your sudo code/design...
You'll need need an html page that looks as follows
<tr><td>email</td><td>comment 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>email 2</td><td>comment 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>email 3</td><td>comment 3</td></tr>
Then you'll need a php script page that will read this html file in and display it.
The php page will also contain code for dealing with a user submitted comment. When a user posts a comment you need to open the html page with the rows in it and append to that file.
You need to be careful with this design however because you may run into write concurrency issues if two people attempt to read the file at the same time. Add code to handle this gracefully accordingly.
I know very little about web service but I assumed it would be the solution I was looking for. Basically I made an application in VB that I want to be ubiquitous for a lack of a better word. I need it to receive requests from multiple users and respond all at once. I was told "technically if you write a webservice you can provide as many results back to users as are connected."
Maybe there is another solution for me that will give me the results I want.
Here is an example of what I'm trying to do.
Lets say I make an application in VB that does math.
I now make a website. My website allows for a person to input 1 + 1
they click submit and my website then connects to my VB application running on my server
listening for a request. It accepts the request from my website, and then it solves the math problem and returns the answer back to the website "1 + 1 = 2"
That is only an example of the type of thing I need. My problem is that I can't have multiple people visiting my website all connecting to that same application running on my server so somehow I need the application to be where it can be accessed by multiple users. I was told a web service would be the answer but if there is another solution I'd like to know.
If the only solution is a web service, then how can I manage to either convert the VB app to a web service? Can I have to convert the app to asp.net or some other language? Is there an easier option?
Without knowing more about what you're actually doing, I might suggest that building an ASP.NET project around your existing VB code might be a good approach. It's going to be awkward to build any kind of "web service" around an existing (presumably GUI) application, so rebuilding your code inside ASP.NET would be the way to go.
How about doing it the push notification way.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Windows-Phone-7-Push-Notification-QuickApp--Web-Service-With-Azure-Publishing-Instructions
You can inform users of your application via a push notification