MReg System

[r_hyde]

Matt,
just wanted to check back in and let you know that I've been testing MReg out a bit. It's an elegant system, even better than what I expected from watching the videos. The latest additions sound very cool. Add the ability (as earlier suggested) to let MReg users host their own databases and I'm sure it will be worth whatever you plan to charge for it. Excellent work!

[ColBoy]

Matt, although you account for the rest of the world, we don;t all use ZipCodes. Here in Canada we have postcodes of the form [A1B 2G2] and in the UK they are more like [EC1V 8DL]

I think it's a great system, but it will really rock, when you can host your own database, either on mySQL or encrypted XML.

Colin

[Matt]

Thanks, I'll take your tip and suggestion into consideration

[Matt]

Teaser for version 2.5:
http://matt.phpgurus.co.uk/MRegSystem/d ... ample3.wmv

[mskuma]

Here in Canada we have postcodes of the form [A1B 2G2] and in the UK they are more like [EC1V 8DL]

Yeah, it's a good point - should just call it 'postal code' and make it a string to account for spaces/hyphens etc, this makes it fairly universal.

(edit: whoops I see you've done that for v2.5 - great, thanks).

[mskuma]

Matt - I just viewed your new video.. it's very impressive.. key overuse, notes, templates - all extremely useful features. You're onto a winner here.. one thing I wondered.. regarding templates: is it possible to send out non-English emails? It would be good if the template/email system is a unicode text area. This would other languages. Perhaps in this case you can setup the outgoing list to have email address & drop down for outgoing email encoding (if required, or maybe just sending a mail with UTF-8 is sufficient). This would require testing (which I am happy to help with).

As mentioned before, if you can add own-hosting of a database (PHP/MySQL? or XML?) I can imagine your solution is extremely attractive.

[Matt]

Thanks for the reply!

I have not thought about sending emails in other languages, but I will definitely look into that and add it to my to-do list, which is quite large right now :roll: (the current version released [2.00] does have email and email templates in there, have you tried sending a non-english email? if so, let me know what happens)

Yes, I am working on the ability to host your own MySQL database. I am also going to release a PHP file with classes in it to have the ability to create and manage users and keys automatically on your website. Of-course, I am building these carefully and putting much thought into how I am going to developing these for security reasons.

Thanks,
Matt

[mskuma]

I'll try the email & let you know. In trying a template now, one annoying thing is you can start typing a mail into the template (without selecting a template first) and then when you go to save it, the program asks you to specify a template, and then you lose the mail you were composing. It would be good to avoid issue this somehow.

Also a minor thing -you should be forced to save a new user before you can send a mail, else you see a blank reference next to the 'send to' checkbox.

[mskuma]

have you tried sending a non-english email? if so, let me know what happens

Good news: it's good that non-English templates seem to be handled ok. I could write a Japanese mail & Japanese template name, and the chars were preserved in your program, so I guess you're using unicode there, or maybe it's just luck (because I have regional setting to Japanese for non-unicode programs).

Bad news: mails are coming to me as garbage, which is not surprising -because probably the mail encoding is not set accordingly.

BTW this is not personally critical to me now - it's a nicety for the future, though maybe for others it's critical if they have international customers - it's always nice to be able to get a mail in your own language. Thanks for adding it to your list.

[mskuma]

The overall window is about 670 pixels wide. It's worth making it wider (or make it resizeable) to allow the whole of the Reg Keys (in User information) area to be visible (saves scrolling across to see all of the First IP field).

[Matt]

Thanks for the posts, that'll give me some stuff to work on

The emails I send come into my inbox, I don't get spam from them.
But this all has to do with the email client your using and the From address and the body and subject of the message.

One thing I didn't quite understand is this:

In trying a template now, one annoying thing is you can start typing a mail into the template (without selecting a template first) and then when you go to save it, the program asks you to specify a template, and then you lose the mail you were composing. It would be good to avoid issue this somehow.

I seem not to understand.
Before you type in the template text area, you should first select a template name on the left to edit or create one by clicking Add to add a template.

Matt

[mskuma]

Before you type in the template text area, you should first select a template name on the left to edit or create one by clicking Add to add a template.

I'm saying it's possible to simply start typing into the 'edit template' area before you select. Yes you should select it, but it's possible to go ahead and type and not select, so when you try to save it, you lose it because the program requests you select a template & when you do you lose what you typed.

[Matt]

Alright, I'll then disable the text area until you select a template.
Sound good?

[mskuma]

Alright, I'll then disable the text area until you select a template.
Sound good?

Yes, thanks.

[mskuma]

The emails I send come into my inbox, I don't get spam from them.
But this all has to do with the email client your using and the From address and the body and subject of the message.

I don't understand.. garbage chars = the content was there but where there should be Japanese was garbage (usually you need to set encoding to see non-US chars). I could see the reg key however (us ascii).