email a friend

[Anon]

I am creating an email a friend link.

Does anyone know the best way to capture the referring php page as a variable to then add to the email that goes out?

thanks.

[mkarabulut]

Try this
function get_page()
{
GLOBAL $PHP_SELF,$HTTP_GET_VARS;
$page=$PHP_SELF."?";
foreach ($HTTP_GET_VARS as $ind=>$val)
{
$page .="$ind=$val&";
}
//delete the last &
$page = substr($page,0,-1);
return urlencode($page);
}

$this_page=get_page();
echo "<a href=email.php?page=$this_page>email to my friend</a>";

I think it might be useful,at least you can improve according to your needs.
Good luck

[Anon]

Thanks Mustafa --

But the way I have to lay it out there is a button on the referring page, which leads to a form where they enter in a message and their friend's email and then that information is processed and sent out.

So I need to pass the variable of the referring page address --> form --> form handler that goes out in the email.

Thanks again!

[[deleted]]

Just use $HTTP_REFERER or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'] in the form, store it as a hidden field with some other name so it will be sent to the form-handler as form-data

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[Anon]

I tried doing the following:

<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<? $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'] ?> ">

And then referencing {referer} in the email
but it doesn't send anything.

Thanks.