[wp-hackers] wp-mail major update

[Brian Meidell Andersen]

Hi John,

One of the features I brought from my own blog system, and which I will 
hopefully get into plugin form some time in the future is an applet I 
made called BlogHelper.
As I wrote this email, I just discovered that it's broken on my site 
after I migrated to wordpress, and furthermore the server is down so I 
can't fix it. So I can't offer to demonstrate just now, but I can 
explain it.

It's an applet that gives you a little canvas onto which you can drag 
and drop or paste images from other webpages or whatever. It then shows 
up on the canvas and lets you crop it and press "save".
This saves it on the server. Javascript can then get the URL for the 
newly stored image, create an IMG tag and stick it in your authoring window.
I've used the applet myself for some months and I can honestly say that 
it's really handy for slapping little images in your entries.

It has some issues, but I am working on the next version of it which 
will fix some of the flaws it has right now. But even in it's current 
form it's quite useful.

As soon as my server is alive and I can fix the page up so the applet 
can run, I'll show you.
There is the one caveat that it requires the blog author to have Java 
1.4 on his or her machine to use it, but as long as the guests don't 
need it, I don't see that as a big problem.

/Brian

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>Hiya guys
>	Started using Wordpress a few days ago and love the clean 
>look/design/code.  But it got me thinking about photos, I love photos 
>but hate having to upload stuff and linking to it (CMS style).  In fact 
>I'm so lazy, I decided to have a hack at wp-mail.php
>What I ended up doing was replacing most of the code in wp-mail.php for 
>wordpress 1.2, didn't anticipate that when I first started but the 
>results are nice.
>
>This hack is a 'drop in' replacement for the current wp-mail.php. It 
>uses pear as a mime compliant email 'decoder'.  What's cool is that you 
>can attach images inline in your email messages and they'll be shown as 
>an image in your wordpress article.  It does this by decoding the image 
>attachments and writing them to 'wp-photos' directory (not in default 
>wp install).
>
>It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:
>	- Allows image attachments (posts inline)
>	- Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise discards 
>message)
>	- Allows other file attachments (zip's, exe's, etc)
>	- Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks
>
>I'm planning on more updates, but would love to see this update 
>included in future wordpress releases.  Would be happy to maintain it 
>to, I'm fairly sure it complies with most of the coding guidelines I've 
>read on the wordpress website.
>
>To install you grab the zip file.
>- -  Drop the two files (wp-mail.php & mailmimedecode.php) into a 
>wordpress 1.2 root directory
>- - Create the directories 'wp-photos'  and 'wp-filez' in the wordpress 
>root directory(with writing permissions (probably 0777).
>	
>You can grab a copy here: http://blade.lansmash.com
>
>Let me know what you guys think!
>John B. Hewitt
>blade.lansmash.com
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