Send to a friend

Sharif

How can I create something that will let users send a certain page to a friend? Maybe after the click a link saying: "Send this page to a friend", a page pops-up with the form fields:

Your Name:
Your Email:
Friend's Name:
Friend's Email:

How can I do this? Thanks for any help 😃

alanzhao

That's pretty complicated if you don't have any idea how to start.

But here we go:

The link page

Put this javascript in the HTML

<script language="JavaScript">
function popup(url)
{
  var style = "height=500, width=500, location=no, scrollbars=no, menubars=no, toolbars=no, resizable=yes";
  window.open(url, "", style);
}
</script>

a link in page like this:

<a href="javascript:popup('sendfriend.php')">Send to a friend</a>

sendfriend.php

if ($_POST['submit']) {
  $your_name = stripslashes(trim($_POST['your_name']));
  $your_email = stripslashes(trim($_POST['your_email']));
  $friend_name = stripslashes(trim($_POST['friend_name']));
  $friend_email = stripslashes(trim($_POST['friend_email']));

  if ($your_name == "")
    die("Your name is empty");
  if ($your_email == "")
    die("Your email is empty");
  if ($friend_name == "")
    die("Friend's name is empty");
  if ($friend_email == "")
    die("Friend's email is empty");

  $message = "Hi $friend_name, your friend $your_name want you to see this interesting page <a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com\">http://www.phpbuilder.com</a>";
  @mail($friend_email, "You got a invitation!", $message, "From: $your_email\r\n");

  echo "Your invitation has been sent.";
} else {
  // display the form here
  .... .... ....
}

That's just a scratch, hope it makes sense. It only sends the link of the page, not the whole HTML file.

Sharif

Thanks for that, I'll try it out and post back the results but a few questions for you, in the javascript part: after window.open, url is replaced with the page containing the form?, what is the "" replaced with? what about style?

And, what would be the action of the forum? Submit to sendfriend.php?

alanzhao

'url' will be sendfriend.php, which contains the form and the after post action, together. "" is the title for popup window and and style is its popup style.

form will be like

<form method="post" action="sendfriend.php">
<!--- Fields here and a submit button --->
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">