What is it?

DaVite is a web invitation system, much like evite! or Yahoo! invites.
4/3/2002: Yahoo Invites closes it's doors
You can create an web invitation that is mailed to all of your guests who can then respond to the invitation and read all the details.

Try it!

I've got a sample invite that you can play with as a guest. If you click on "Create Invite" it will send *me* a new invite. If you want to make one yourself, go to the DaVite main page. Features: Create and edit invitations online Uses themes so it is completely customizable through the web Invite more people Generate invitation and reminder email Handle replies and comments Keep track of names and email privacy preferences Host can choose remove guests, mail guests, choose to receive email notices for guest changes, allow/disallow guests to invite others

Sample Invite - see "Try it!" to the left

Caveats/Todo:

Easy:

• Need to have a site "owner" (and change the footer!)

• No handling of incoming email (such as mail bounces)
• No automatic cleaning of the DaVite directory (though it does remove old entries if you go to the default page)
• Too many people added to an invite with a slow connection can be a problem if the sendmail takes longer than the page timeout. (not sure how to fix - if I fork off the mailing then I don't get to see the success/failure)

License:

Download/Install:

1. Download the tar.gz.
   
2. gunzip and untar the file, then put the CGI and DaVite/ directory in a CGI accessible place.
   
3. Edit the paths at the top of DaVite.cgi (in the SETTINGS section)
   
4. Install DaVite.cgi and the DaVite/ directory somewhere web-accessible. If the permissions have changed, do (under unix):
   
   chmod -R ugo r DaVite.cgi DaVite/
   find DaVite/ -perm -u x -print | xargs /bin/chmod go x
   
5. Install DaVite_Data/ OUTSIDE of your web directories, and make sure the contents are writable by the web user. Either do (under unix):
   
   chmod -R ugo rw DaVite_Data/
   chmod ugo x DaVite_Data/ DaVite_Data/Events/

   Or, even better (and safer):
   
   chown -R <webuser>:<webuser> DaVite_Data
   (where <webuser> is the login that your web server uses)
   

6. Bring up the CGI in the web browser and you're ready to create an invite!

If you can't get the CGI to run at all, it's probably a web server configuration problem, and you're going to have to look somewhere else for info.

If you can get the CGI to partially run (i.e., you see a DaVite error instead of a web server error), then you probably need to fix your path settings at the top of DaVite.cgi

I also highly recommend downloading forge_pipe and installing it as setuid so that you can easily forge the outgoing invitation email from the invitation owner.

Windows:

You can get Sendmail.pm easily via:

• CPAN: perl -MCPAN -e "install Mail::Sendmail"
• ActivePerl ppm: ppm install --location=http://alma.ch/perl/ppm Mail-Sendmail
• Manually: copy Sendmail.pm to Mail/ in your perl lib directory

Documentation?

Play with it - it's mostly self-explanatory.

Requires:

1. Perl, which kicks ass

Revision History:

Bugs:

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