Email link to a friend code ??

[gazzip]

Hi All Anyone know the html code for emailing a link to a friend - one where you can also put in the email subject and a couple of lines about what the link is about ?

Appreciate any help you can provide Thanks



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[sote]

With plain HTML the most you can do is:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Tell a Friend</a>
which will bring up the users default mail program eg: Outlook.
I suggest not using this method as most people don't use these email clients.

On the otherhand, you could create a HTML 'form' which is processed by PHP which is probably the best way to do this.

 

[Ray]

I think this is what he wanted... Put all that in one php page in the following order.. The following code is a form that posts to it self to send mail..

<?php
 if (!isset($_POST["send"])){
   
// no post data -> display form
?>

 <form method="POST" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
   To: <input type="text" name="to">
   From: <input type="text" name="sender">
   Subject : <input type="text" name="subject">
   Message : 
   <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="60" lines="20"></textarea>
   <input type="submit" name="send" value="Send">
   </form>

<?php 
 }else{

   // found post data
   $from=$_POST['sender'];
  $to=$_POST['to'];

   // send mail :

   if (mail($to,$_POST['subject'],$_POST['message'],"From: $from\n")){
     // display confirmation message if mail sent successfully
     echo "Your mail sent to $to.";
 }else{
   // sending failed
    echo "Your mail could not be sent.";
   }
 }
 ?>

 

[gazzip]

Thanks Guys - That php stuff looks a little confusing to me though..well, alot

Maybe it is a javascript code I need ?? I have used it once years ago and I think it was just a case of popping a piece of code in the header as far as I remember.

Anyone know if there is such a javascript code for this ?



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