[Radiant] Using the Mailer Behaviour for Radiant on Textdrive

[Sean Cribbs]

Peter,

That's a wonderful How-To!  Could you add it to the Wiki 
(http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/HowTos)?

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

Peter Burgess wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>
> I was having a problem getting the very cool Mailer Behavior to work  
> on Radiant CMS installation on my Textdrive shared hosting account. I  
> talked to John and he was very kind to help me get this working. So I  
> am going to repay that kindness and send directions of how to  
> accomplish at the request of John to the mailing list. So here it goes:
>
> 1. Install Radiant. (Do a search on how to do this for TextDrive.  
> There are very good instructions on how to do this)
>
> 2. Using a terminal app, go to the Radiant root address. Something  
> like: domains/domain-name.com/web/radiant
>
> 3. Now you will want to install the behavior. Type in the terminal:  
> script/plugin install http://mattmccray.com/svn/rails/plugins/ 
> radiant_mailer_behavior/
>
> 4. After the install is done you need to insert the behavior into the  
> environment.rb by typing this in the terminal: sed -i ''  
> 's/, :action_mailer//' config/environment.rb
>
> 5. Now go to your favorite ftp program and locate your  
> environment.rb, which will be located in the config directory in the  
> root of your radiant install. Edit the environment.rb file and add  
> this to the bottom of it (select what is between the #'s):
>
> #########
>
> ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
>    :address  => "mydomain.com",
>    :port  => 25,
>    :domain  => 'mydomain.com',
>    :user_name  => "username",
>    :password  => '****',
>    :authentication  => :login
> }
>
> #########
>
> Change "mydomain", "username", and "****" to reflect your server  
> settings. Keep the quotes. The mydomain.com would be the domain you  
> installed Radiant on and the username and password are your Textdrive  
> settings.
>
> Save the environment.rb file.
>
> 6. Now since you edited the environment.rb file you will need to  
> restart your rails app(which of course is Radiant)
>
> 7. Open your browser and point it to your site's Radiant login. (ie:  
> mydomain.com/admin) and then login
>
> 8. Create a page named: Contact. Once you are in the Contact page,  
> create a part and name it config. Add this in the config part (select  
> what is between the #'s):
>
> ##########
>
> mailers:
>    contact:
>      subject: From Contact Form
>      from: noreply at yourdomain.com
>      redirect_to: /contact/thank-you/
>      recipients:
>        - test at yourdomain.com
>
> ##########
>
> Change test at yourdomain.com to your email address.
>
> 9. Now click on the body tab while you are still in the Contact page  
> and add this code to it (select what is between the #'s):
>
> ##########
>
> <r:mailer:form name="contact">
>   <r:mailer:hidden name="subject" value="Email from my Radiant  
> site!" /> <br />
>   Name:<br/>
>     <r:mailer:text name="name" /> <br />
>   Message:<br />
>     <r:mailer:textarea name="message" /> <br />
>   <r:mailer:submit value="Send" />
> </r:mailer:form>
>
> ###########
>
>
> Select "Mailer" from the behavior list. Click "Create Page"
>
> 10. Now add a child page to Contact and name it "thank-you". This  
> will be the page your mailer form will redirect when it is submitted.  
> NOTE: you can name it whatever you want. Just make sure you update it  
> in the config part of the Contact page.
>
> 11. And that should do it! Point your browser to the Contact page and  
> test your form.
>
> I hope everything works for you and that I explained it to the point  
> it was easy and understandable. I'm not a programmer so I am not 100%  
> sure of what some of this coding even means except for the obvious.  
> So I won't be much help for trouble-shooting. If you do have trouble  
> though, ask around the forums. There are many people out there  
> willing to help.
>
>
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