emails not sent

[evvo1961]

hi i import the email adresses but clicking submit does not send the emails...

i added myself to the list but did not get it.

any ideas?

[plaxotrevor]

What is the URL of the page are you using to send emails?

The address book access widget itself will allow you to grab names and emails from your address book. The actual emailing of content to those selected people is handled by the website that's including a link to the address book widget.

--Trevor

[evvo1961]

i guess thats the bit i cant get working. i looked at the page on plaxo and could see no more than a standard form post submit. but i obviously need to do a bit more than that.

also where do you set up the message that appears in the recipients email?

if anyone can help with these 2 points id appreciate it.

thanks

[kas]

Plaxo provides the access to the user's address book for ease of choosing a list of email addresses. Plaxo Address Book Access widget does not send the email. That part is up to you.

Any developers out there who would like to share what they did?

Best,

Kathy

[p9939068]

Certainly. I have a commercial plugin for Joomla that allows users to import their address books and send pre-formatted invitations (to the website) to their friends. It's actually pretty straightforward and fairly simple. This is how i do it (with PHP):

Place the textarea in a form. After importing the addresses to the textarea, submit the form. For my plugin this is done through AJAX, but you can use the conventional method. The form handler will explode the email string (by the commas), strip away the string inside the quotes "" (which are the names), and remove the <>, leaving only the raw emails. All this is done using PHP's string functions, and the end result is an array of email addresses, which you can do whatever you wish to, like sending emails out to them.

I'd love to place my website here and share with the folks how it's done, but i'm not sure about Plaxo's policy on plugging commercial software. PM me and i'll be glad to show you.

By the way, for the past couple of days I can't seem to import emails from hotmail and gmail. It gives an error message "Sorry, but we are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again in a few minutes.
If this problem persists, please contact customer care." Is the widget going through some upgrades for these 2 address books?

Regards, Mike

[kas]

The widget was experiencing some difficulty, and engineering just pushed a fix.

Let us know if you continue to have problems accessing the widget.

Kathy

[p9939068]

yeap, problem still exists. Same goes for the widget example on plaxo.com. Hope the engineering dudes get it fixed soon :)

[kas]

>>Hope the engineering dudes get it fixed soon

Me too. Thanks for the heads up that there is still a problem.

Kathy