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vCard Lite

Welcome to vCard Lite documentation.

Thank you for choosing vCard Lite software, the best free PHP postcard software on planet :-). This Manual will assist you in installing your vCard Lite. These instructions are specially designed for use vCard Lite 2.0.

You may also wish to visit the Belchior Foundry community to get support (http://www.belchiorfoundry.com/forum/ click on Belchior Foundry Community).

Feature List
vCard Lite Version 2.0

This is a postcard script with a web based admin for easy maintenance.

  • Easy to install
  • Easy translation to your own tongue
  • Post Service statistics
  • Simple password protected control painel
  • Optional browse categories of postcards
  • Top Postcards
  • Preview page before send
  • Anti-Spam feature
  • New card icon
  • Easy edition of meta tags, font faces list set and other thinks that need be modify to use vCard Lite in other languages. ex.: japanese, chinese, greek, cyrillic etc.
  • Top and footer files can be displayed on all web pages for displaying your banners and to FIT with your web site loyout
  • Supported Image Files: JPEG, GIF images and Flash animations
  • Supported Audio Files: Midi and WAVE
  • Allow creation of special postcards with many graphics and texts like bluemuontain.com postcards
  • Allow creation of your own generic postcard template
  • Allow customize the postcard notification messages
  • Allows user send to multiple recipients
  • Allows user upload his own image ou flash animation
  • Allows user select 3 default diferent layout style (that you can edit)
  • Allows user send card in advance date
  • Allows user select font face
  • Allows user select font color
  • Allows user select font size
  • Allows user select background image
  • Allows user select background music
  • Allows user select postcard color
  • Allows user select stamp image
  • Allows user receive a notification e-mail when recipient pickup the greeting card.
  • Auto-converter: emoticons to graphics
  • Auto Focus in form field to easy start compose postcard
  • Quick help Pop-Up Windows with font face, color, background and stamp image.
  • Cookie feature
    (recipient who wants to send back a new postcard to the sender to have his form automaticly filled with his name and email address (sender) and the same informations for the ex-sender who is now the new recipient.)
  • The datas are saved in MySQL database

System Requirements

In order to setup vCard Lite the folowing prerequisits are necessary.

PHP 3>= 3.0.18 WITH safe mode = off
or
PHP 4 >= 4.0.3

http://www.php.net

-MySQL database server >= 3.23
http://www.mysql.com

http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.html#safemode

Behind the scene
  1. It utilizes a "language" file, so that every bit of text that appears in both the user and admin screens can be translated in one file
  2. All variables are in a configuration file which makes a brand new install take about 20 minutes if you type slow.
  3. Highly Intuitive interface
  4. Sent card data is retained in it's own table, so that if you delete a specific card, any users who have already been sent this card but have not yet picked it up will still be able to retrieve their card
  5. Postcards that use custom uploaded file will be registered in database and will be deleted by vCard Lite when you order delete old postcard from Admin Page.

    The problem: pictures that is not registered in Data Base because user who unfinished postcard send process. The file will be remain in upload directory. The file is named with this mode:

    YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.(jpg/gif/swf)
    year-month-day-hourminutesecond.(jpg/gif/swf)
    example:
    2001-03-03-031608.jpg

    So you can know wich files remained from this unfinished process and can delete.

How active advance sent
If you active advanced option in configuration. You must exec the file advancedate.php! You can use CRON job in UNIX system or use a URL monitoring service like:

http://www.netwhistle.com/

to visit the script file URL.

http://www.domain.com/vCardLite/advancedate.php

- Set to visit the file 2 times for day.
or you can use FAKE CRON:
It's a small CGI script that smulate CRON feature. Get your copy at

http://www.SmartCGIs.com

Change Log

Version 2.0 - 2002-01-22
- Added: anti-spam feature
- Added: new card icon
- updated: all php code

Version 1.5 - 2001-12-07
- Added: MySQL database optimization

Version 1.4 - 2001-10-19
- Added: multiple recipients

Version 1.3 - 2001-09-04
- Added: simple password protection to control panel

Version 1.2b - 2001-08-02
- Fix: small bugs

Version 1.1b - 2001-07-01
- Fix: advanced date feature

Version 1.0 - 2001-05-14
- First release


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