Stories from June 25th, 2008

PopCard Greetings 2.3.7 Now Available

Thanks to an ongoing trickle of requests and the discovery that someone was selling it elsewhere on the net, I've decided to resurrect an old script of mine called PopCard Greetings and make it freely available to the world.

PopCard is a simple script that allows you to set up an e-cards service on your website similar to the one built into Pixaria Gallery. The original idea was inspired by iCards which was a feature of Apple's iTools services which later became .Mac and is now MobileMe.

The concept is simple, the user is sent the card as a JPEG attachment in an e-mail rather than having to go to the website to download it which makes for a considerably more attractive and personal message for the recipient.

As I've only just dusted off PopCard, it's a little out of date as the code hasn't been seriously edited since 2005. As a result, you use it entirely at your own risk and I make no claims about the security or stability of it.

I hope to release updates in the near future which will make it a smaller package, remove the need to include Smarty with it and improve the security of the various scripts in the package.