[Zope] Help eMail this page to a friend

[Loren Stafford]

My code below already does a good job of "eMail source to a friend"; but I
don't want to email source; I want Zope to process the source as a DTML
document and mail the HTML that results.

-- Loren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of J.
> Atwood
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 16:03
> To: Loren Stafford; zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Help eMail this page to a friend
>
>
> Easy..
>
> Look at the code on Zope.org for view source. Just use the same type
> of thing. Include a button on the bottom of the page that reloads the
> page with /email_html method. This method could almost surround the
> html with sendmail tags.
>
> That is just off the top of my head. Maybe there is a better way.
>
> J
>
> At 3:51 PM -0800 2/23/01, Loren Stafford wrote:
> >Thanks J,
> >
> >...but that's not quite what I want to do. I want to email
> the current page
> >(not its URL) as a MIME message, so that when you open the
> email (with an
> >HTML-capable mail client) you see the page exactly as if you
> were viewing it
> >with a web browser.
> >
> >Therein is the problem: how to get Zope to render the DTML
> and make an HTML
> >page.
> >
> >-- Loren
> >
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On
> Behalf Of J.
> >>  Atwood
> >>  Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 15:26
> >>  To: Loren Stafford; zope@zope.org
> >>  Subject: Re: [Zope] Help eMail this page to a friend
> >>
> >>
> >>  You might want to take a loo at this.. a little
> modification and it
> >>  will work like a charm.
> >>
> >>  http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/tell_a_friend
> >>
> >>  J
> >>
> >>  At 9:45 AM -0800 2/23/01, Loren Stafford wrote:
> >>  >I'm trying to make a global method to implement the "eMail
> >>  this page to a
> >>  >friend" function I've seen on many sites. (Surely someone
> >>  has already done
> >>  >this for Zope, but I don't see How-To or email on the
> >>  subject.) What I have
> >>  >so far is this:
> >>  >
> >>  ><dtml-with "PARENTS[-1]"><dtml-sendmail mailhost=MailHost>
> >>  >To: <dtml-var eMailThisPageTo>@morphics.com
> >>  >Reply-to: <dtml-var
> "AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()">@morphics.com
> >>  >From: webserver
> >>  >Subject: <dtml-var URL1>
> >>  ><dtml-mime type="text/html" encode="7bit">
> >>  ><dtml-var "REQUEST.resolve_url(URL1)">
> >>  ></dtml-mime>
> >>  ></dtml-sendmail></dtml-with "PARENTS[-1]">
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >But it just emails the text of the method that called it. E.g.
> >>  >
> >>  ><dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2><dtml-var
> >>  title_or_id></h2> <ul> <li><a
> >>  >href="http://helpdesk/">"Perfect Tracker" Help Desk</a>
> >>  </ul> <dtml-var
> >>  >titlelist> <ul> <li><a
> >>  >href="http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&SD=GN
> >>  &LN=EN-US"
> >>  >>Microsoft Technical Support</a>. </ul> <dtml-var
> >>  standard_html_footer>
> >>  >
> >>  >How do I make it render (i.e. process the DTML in) the
> >>  method that called
> >>  >it?
> >>  >
> >>  >-- Thanks
> >>  >-- Loren