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Coding Folders for a PHP Email Application

In this article, the fourth and final one of our series covering the creation of a PHP email application, we are going to look at the code for some of the remaining pages of the mail application. Chief among these is the NewMsg.php page, which is where items, to be more precise, new messages, are either saved as drafts or saved as sent messages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. Coding Folders for a PHP Email Application
  2. Form Data
  3. Explaining Sections B and C
  4. The Sent, Trash and Drafts Folders
By: Leidago
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November 15, 2006

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Let's see how this one script affects the other ones. Here's an illustrative diagram:

NewMsg.php - > Sent message

         |____________________

         |                                       |

Drafts Folder                       Sent Message FolderOptional

Let's start with the NewMsg page. First you are presented with a form that will take the following input: To, Cc, BCc, Subject, Attachment and message text. All of these are required to send a valid email message.

<table width="100%" border="0" class="block">

        <tr>

          <td width="10%" valign="top"><strong>To</strong></td>

          <td width="90%"><input name="to" type="text" id="to"
size="70"  value="<? if(isset($r['to'])){

                          $r['to'];} ?>"/></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td valign="top"><strong>Cc</strong></td>

          <td><input name="cc" type="text" id="cc" size="70"
value="<? if(isset($r['cc'])){

                          $r['cc'];} ?>"/></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td valign="top"><strong>Bcc</strong></td>

          <td><input name="bcc" type="text" id="bcc" size="70"
value="<? if(isset($r['bcc'])){

                          $r['bcc'];} ?>"/></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td valign="top"><strong>Subject</strong></td>

          <td><input name="sub" type="text" id="sub" size="80"  value="<? if(isset($r['subject'])){

                          $r['subject'];} ?>"/></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td valign="top"><strong>Attachment</strong></td>

          <td>

                          <input name="userfile" type="file"
id="userfile" size="80" value="<? if(isset($r['attachment'])){

                          $r['attachment'];} ?>"/></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td valign="top"><strong>Message:</strong></td>

          <td><? $checked = false;

                          if($checked){ ?>

                          <textarea name="msg" cols="90" rows="9"
id="msg"><? if(isset($r['msg_body'])){

                          $r['msg_body'];} } ?></textarea>

                          <? if($checked){

// Automatically calculates the editor base path based on the
_samples directory.

// This is useful only for these samples. A real application
should use something like this:

// $oFCKeditor->BasePath = '/FCKeditor/' ;   // '/FCKeditor/' is
the default value.

$sBasePath ='fckeditor/fckeditor.php';

$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('FCKeditor1') ;

$oFCKeditor->BasePath         = $sBasePath ;

$oFCKeditor->Value               = 'This is some <strong>sample
text</strong>. You are using <a
href="http://www.fckeditor.net/">FCKeditor</a>.' ;

$oFCKeditor->Create() ;

}

?>

                          </td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

          <td>&nbsp;</td><*/span>

          <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send
Message" />

            <input name="draft" type="submit" id="draft"
value="Save As Draft" />

            <input name="save" type="checkbox" id="save"
value="checkbox" />

            Save Sent Message</td>

        </tr>

      </table>

The text in red shows a selection of choices. The first choice is to just send the message as is. The second gives you the option of  saving the message as a draft, and the third choice gives you the option of saving the message in the "Sent Messages" Folder. Some of these choices can be made simultaneously and others cannot. For example, if you click on "save as draft" then the message will be saved in the drafts folder instead of being sent. On the other hand, if you want to send the message and save it in the sent folder, that is allowed.



 
 
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