Super-simple "invite a friend" script?

[Ringr]

Hey guys,

I am just looking for a very simple (no I don't need anything fancy or complex) PHP script or something of the like, where people can click on a link and it will simply go to a page where people can fill in up to 5 email address and press "send" and then an email will be dispatched to those email addresses with a customized message.

Anyone know where I could get one, or maybe one of you has made something like this?
Once again, please keep things simple I don't need a whole darned complex script with ever bell and whistle on it - just a simple little deal like I said above.

Thanks guys,
I hope someone can help me out;
-Andy M.



P.S. Please don't say "OMG DID YOU CHECK HOTSCRIPTS?!" gees I hate when people say that. I've looked a lot of places including Hotscripts but haven't found anything yet.

 

[Crabby]

OMG DID YOU CHECK HOTSCR... oh, sorry.

I'll write one right here, right now

<?php
if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] != "POST" )
{
?>
<h1>Tell a Friend</h1>
<form action="<?= $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] ?>" method="post">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td>Friend's e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="friend[]" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friend's e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="friend[]" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friend's e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="friend[]" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friend's e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="friend[]" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friend's e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="friend[]" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
<?php
}
else
{
$subject = "Check this out!"; // E-mail subject
ob_start();
?>
Hello,

Check out our site:
http://www.example.com/

Thanks,
Some siteee!
<?php // Put your e-mail message between the php tags.
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$_POST["friend"] = is_array( $_POST["friend"] )? $_POST["friend"] : array();
for( $i = 0; $i < count( $_POST["friend"] ); $i++ )
{
$friend = $_POST["friend"][$i];
mail( $friend, $subject, $message, "From: Some site <[email protected]>\n" );
}
?>
<h1>Tell a Friend</h1>
Thanks for telling your friends, the e-mails have been sent!
<?php
}
?>

 

[Ringr]

Everytime I say the thing about Hotscripts, at least one person replies like you did. :P
Lol

Crabby, thanks a billion for your help. You have no idea how much it helped me.

Thanks! :D
-Andy M.

---
Edit: I am getting this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/flametid/public_html/sa/invite-a-friend.php on line 49

Line 49 is this: foreach( $_POST["friend"] as $friend )

Do you know what might be wrong?

 

[Ringr]

Meh, anybody?
Sorry I don't know PHP. :/

 

[Eric]

EDIT: Can't get it to work, I'll code my own. :p

 

[Crabby]

Thanks for being so patient :p </sarcasm>

I've updated the post.

 

[Ringr]

It works!

Thank you Crabby!
And thanks for your efforts SecondVersion.

Thanks guys,
-Andy

 

[Eric]

It works!

Thank you Crabby!
And thanks for your efforts SecondVersion.

Thanks guys,
-Andy

Yea well :p lol, I got mine wrote, but you don't need it. :hehe: Well, almost, still workin on it.

 

[i386]

Just some suggestions...

If you have some people on dial-up that think their invite isn't going through, try to use the Dynamic Drive script to disable the click button.

If you're requesting them to send a message, use JavaScript as well and onClick. That will prevent people from filling out a blank form. Of course, it doesn't stop them from disabling JavaScript. It's always good to use empty() on top of JavaScript.