Secret Santa Project

It’s the hol­i­day sea­son and that means you are buy­ing a lot of gifts and prob­a­bly along the way doing at least one gift exchange. Prob­a­bly the most well known of these (at least here in the US) is Secret Santa.

My fam­ily does Secret Santa amongst our­selves and this year I decided to mod­ern­ize it by writ­ing a sim­ple php script that would shuf­fle the names and emails and send an email to each per­son telling them who they had.

It all worked really well except for the email­ing part, they kept going into the spam folder. So that was a bust.

Last night how­ever I had some free time and I took that script and updated it into a quite nice and sim­ple web app (and no longer do emails go into the spam folder).

You can try the code out at http://secret.yostivanich.com/ or down­load the whole pack­age here.

Included in this pack­age is unmod­i­fied ver­sions of Blue­print CSS Frame­work and PHP­Mailer. The rest of code there is all mine and is under a MIT License, essen­tially do what­ever you want with my code.

I’ll work on a a cou­ple of tuto­ri­als to walk though what I what did over the next few posts, till then have fun.

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