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Sending e-Cards via Email in IT Centric era is common ... we
send them to our love ones, to our bosses, to any person whom we
wish, whether they are our next-door neighbours or live abroad.
In this article we are going to explain how to create a WAP Enable
Greeting Card System: WAPReetings. So we can send a
greeting to those who are have a WAP Enable Device.
The following diagram defines the sending architecture of
WAPReetings.
Figure 1 diagrams the process of sending the
WAPReetings.
As user types the URL of our site, for example http://www.myserver.com/, this opens
the Cards.asp page where we present the list of Cards, which
are available on our site. When the user selects the card, and enters
the email address of the person to send the card to and some greeting
text, after the entry and basic validation we will send the greeting
in a WML format.
Before explaining Receiver Scenario, I have to explain the Email
Body structure:
<Date>
Dear <Receiver_Name>,
You receive a WAPReetings from <Sender_Name>.
Please type the following
<URL>
Regards,
WAPReetings
Now in the above Body Structure which we will going to generate
after the User Input, contains some dynamic words which I
encapsulated in Angular Brackets which are briefly describe as
follow:
<Receiver_Name> = The person who is receiving the
WaPreeting.
<Sender_Name> = Name of a person who is sending the
WAPReetings
<URL> = A Dynamic URL which Receiver have to pick which
might look like this
http://www.myserver.com/getCard.asp?rid=19121978 <Date> = Date when Email is generated
Lets summarize this stage step by step:
First we will browse the cards
After browsing we select and see the details of the card, like how
it looks like, what is the description of that card etc.
When we are satisfied with the card, we will generate the card,
like give our own customize Greeting Text, Email address of the
receiver and name and also sender name & email.
After submitting that data we will be directed to the sendCard.asp
where the information which we submitted into the generateCard.asp
will be retrieved and then send a WAPReeting via CDONTS. The email
contains a url of our card in following is the example URL:
