Tutorial for Implementing eCard Functionality on Website?

December 9, 2003 4:12 PM

I've been asked to install an 'e-card' function on a friend's website. I've never really used or sent them, so it's unfamiliar. Would anyone be able to recommend a good tutorial?
posted by moonbird to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Here's a tutorial for MySQL/PHP. Or, here's one (again PHP/MySQL) that's already done if you don't want to bother. Otherwise, there are services that will host them and place their ads, you know the drill.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 5:02 PM on December 9, 2003

i've been using jason's postcard scripts since 99. it's easy cgi driven stuff. there isn't a tutorial, but given the simplicity of installation, i'm not sure that you'd need one. you can see the results here ("send this photo") and here.
posted by heather at 5:16 PM on December 9, 2003

I recently did a pretty much comprehensive survey of every piece of e-card software I could find, for a site related to national parks I was working on.

After testing for several days, I decided to go with "gCards," and I've been happy with it ever since.

http://www.gregphoto.net/gcards/index.php
posted by oissubke at 6:03 PM on December 9, 2003