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[Guest]

Hello,

just wanted to tell everybody, i installed MMS-Diary on my server (which is in shared hosting).
The Results:
- At first thumbnail creation didn't work. The server is running PHP 4.2.3 and some older version of GD. This can be made to work by replacing calls to imagecreatetruecolor() with calls to imagecreate() everywhere.
- I am using a Sony Ericsson T630 phone which works just fine with MMS-Diary.
- I am on O2 germany. Luckily they use the same WAP gateway for WAP and MMS traffic, so for setting up your phone you only need to change the MMSC. Whats more, they offer a "flat rate" plan for WAP (5 Euros per month and you get all WAP traffic included) which makes MMS-Diary postings free, which is good.
- Seeing that MMS-Diary is pretty simple, but Peffisaur is quite heavy, i set out to enhance MMS-Diary myself. Currently i have implemented:
conversion of AMR to MP3 files instead of WAV;
user authentication;
forwarding of MMS as emails;
the email forwarding feature is "oligo-user" (can support a few different users but not thousands);
providing an RSS feed of entries;
german translation of all messages and prompts;
posting of entries from a web browser instead of by MMS;
heavily improved admin interface: editing entries after posting, replace entry parts by other files, delete parts and add new entry parts.
Whats still on the to-do list for me: comments feature and page breaks after say 15 entries.
The user authentication works by using the To: field. When sending your MMS, you specify "<user>:<password>:<destination>" in your phone. Destination can be an email address or "blog" for sending posts to MMS-Diary.

So, if anybody is interested you can contact me at newsletter (at) gabistapler.de

Have fun.

[Guest]

This is me again.
I added comments now.

[Peffis]

That sounds cool! Where is the site you have it on? I would love to have a look.

[Guest]

Its at http://gabistapler.de/mobil/
Note thats it not "live" yet --> It had no visitors.
The admin interface is password protected, though. (of course!) I made a static copy of the "edit an article" page available at http://gabistapler.de/mobil/editor.php.html for you to look at without passwords.

[Peffis]

Cool! Looks good! Do you have a database backend or are you storing it in directories like MMS Diary does?

[Peffis]

One comment though about the license you say it's licensed under. You cannot change the license of MMS Diary (the parts that you use and derivatite works) to Creative Commons License and distribute it. It is and will be under GPL. I hope you know that.

[Peffis]

...but perhaps you only mean the content of the site (the images and text) and not the PHP source code. My German is not the best

[Guest]

Hi,

the storage is the same storage as is in MMS-Diary. I didn't change that code. Comments are stored as files in a subdirectory.
This is not so good for performance. But as MMS-Diary is for one user only, i think it will be OK.

Licence: The PHP code is GPL of course (yes, sure, i know that.) It includes other GPLed code, now, RSS creation for example is done with InstantRSS (thelocust.org/projects/instantrss). The Creative Commons licence is for the content.
Stefan, if you like i can send you patches. Otherwise i'll release the source code at my site when finished.

[Peffis]

I'm ok with you releasing it just on your page when you feel ready. MMS Diary is not really on top of my list these days unfortunately so perhaps it's better to keep me out of the loop as it would probably just delay things. I would welcome a mention of my contribution though so people can find the original code, and likewise, I could perhaps link from the MMS Diary page on my home page to your site if you like.

[Guest]

Hello, its me again.
You can get my patched and hacked variant of MMS Diary which is now called "MMS-Tagebuch" at my website! But beware: All prompts and such are in german language currently. If you don't like that, just help me out with a translation... (Tagebuch is german for diary).

Go get it at http://gabistapler.de/emmstagebuch.html

Stefan, i made a link back to hellkvist.org there and also included text praising you as the original author... If you like you can link to me, too.

Another new feature is breakup of the Diary page into mutiple pages with a configurable number of entries on each.

Also i could get my hands on a Sendo X phone, which works just fine with MMS-Diary (but its impossible to enter a subject line on the phone. So MMS-Tagebuch has a dirty hack to circumvent that)

Have fun!
Gunnar

[Peffis]

Looks good...no worry about the German. That's just fine. Alle sprechen Deutsch, nicht war? I'll put up a link to your site later. I have a problem with a slashdotting yesterday of peffis.com so it will take some time for me to have a working site up again...

Viel glück!

[THANKS!]

Hi,

thanks for your hack.

in send.php
------------------------------------
#For assembling MIME emails:
include("Mail.php");
include("mime.php");
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but i do not found the file mail.php and mime.php


and how can i find the path PEAR on shared host server ?

#You MUST change this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#You really must!!!!!!
#Include PEAR
#If you put the PEAR Mail classes somewhere, put the path to them here:
#If you are root on your server and you put the classes into PHP's include path, remove the following line.
ini_set("include_path",'/home/g/gabistapler.de/PEAR/' . $PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get("include_path"));