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Release #2 of my Sprint PCS Pictureshare plugin for WordPress.

There have been a lot of new features added, and it’s doing more than I had ever hoped when I had first started this project. There are still a couple things I want to try out, but I have to stop and do a release before I think of another feature or else I’ll never get any code released

This version is based off of the wp-mail.php code that has been modified by John Blade. His package can be found here.

My code will work with his version of wp-mail, but I have also made some minor additions to his code in order to add some functionality that I desired and fix a couple bugs I have found. If you would like to use my version, you must still install his package using the instructions at his site, but then replace the wp-mail.php file with the code found here. To see the difference between the two versions (including comments on what I changed), please check out the differences.

Anyway, here is the code and the instructions – please give it a shot and let me know if you manage to break it, or if you can think of any enhancements – SprintPhoto v0.2

Plugin Name: WP-SprintPhoto
Version: 0.2
Plugin URI: http://bekit.net/archives/category/blog-development/
Description: Allow Sprint Picture Share to be posted with email blogging.
Author: Brint E. Kriebel
Author URI: http://bekit.net

Notes: Based partially off of code from phone2blog by LaughingLizard: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/17/sprint-pcs-moblog-to-wordpress-12-mingus/
To be used in addition to cool_blade’s modified wp-mail.php code.

Instructions:

1. Install the modified wp-mail.php code from http://blade.lansmash.com/index.php?cat=5 (or my modified version of it).
2. Copy SprintPhoto.php into the wordpress plugins directory (typically wp-content/plugins)
3. Create the directories for photo storage specified in wp-mail.php. Downloaded images will be stored here.
4. Activate the SprintPhoto plugin through your administrative pages.
5. Follow the “How to Blog by eMail” guide: http://wiki.wordpress.org/How%20To%20Blog%20By%20Email
6. Send a picture share as usual to the email adress you have created.

a. Voice attachments not currently implimented.
b. For text messages:

• By default it will pull a text message in as the title (example: “This is my title!”)
• You can modify the Category of the post using brackets with the category id (example: “[2] This is my title!” – this will post into the category with id #2)
• You can add a text post that will show under the image by sepating the title with a semicolon (example: “[2] This is my title!; This is the text of the post.”)
• If no text message is selected, the default title can be defined by the variable “$defaultTitle”.
7. Browse to the wp-mail.php page – it will begin processing your email.
8. Regular emails will process as normal posts.
9. The full scale image as well as a thumbnail will be downloaded to the photos directory. A blog will be posted per your configuration of wp-m2.php with the thumbnail linking to the full image, the category, title and text of the post will be implimented as described above.

Changelog:

• 0.2
• Fixed:
• Incorrect date/time stamp.
• Permalinks not working correctly.
• Added:
• Title can now be adjusted (and defaulted).
• Now using wp-mail.php hack from http://blade.lansmash.com/index.php?cat=5 (Some modifications made).
• Category can be adjusted (thanks to blade’s wp-mail).
• A message can be planted in addition to the Title.
• The downloaded images are named to the date-title.
• 0.1
• Initial release.
• To-Do:
  1. Bug-fix as needed.
  • Known bugs:
  • None that i’ve found
  2. Add functionality for voice messages.
  3. Possibly turn this into a full Sprint Vision plugin for text messages, picturemail and videomail. (Optimism is a good thing).

Last Modified: 2004-09-13

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