"email articles to a friend" feature

[Anon]

Hi,

I want to be able to have the option to let users on my site press a link "Email Article" so they can, obviously, send the article to somebody through the site. I've looked around, but couldn't find any sites or articles which explain how to accomplish this with PHP. Maybe it's not possible, I don't know.

Thanks for your input!

[inkel]

Hi Jay:

I don't know exactly the code, but one solution will be to store the articles in a database (it will be helpfull too for a small content manager), then, in the link, you pass a parameter, say, ?article_id=XX and open a form where you fill your friend's name and email. Then, construct the message and send it via mail() function.

I know this wasn't the best reply you could receive, but, if you like my idea, let me know, and I will code something, ok??

bye

inkel

[Anon]

Hi Inkel --

This looks like what I have been looking for! How would I capture that reference in the subsequent form for sending in my results email?

Thanks.