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Free - Tell A Friend Script

Step 1 - The Tell A Friend Script compliments of The Design Shoppe.

Copy and paste the code below (from <?PHP to ?>) into Notepad and then save as "tellafriend.php". The only items you really need to change are the "$emailto" information and also your site URL. Both of these are in red & bold below.

It would also be a good idea to edit the body text of the email (where indicated below) that will be sent out to recipients with further details about your site and to alter the subject line in the email the recipients will receive. Please leave our credits in tact as appreciation for use of this free script. Thank you!

<?PHP // The Design Shoppe Tell-A-Friend script V 2.1 // TheDesignShoppe.com - http://www.thedesignshoppe.com // Free Web Scripts compliments of TheDesignShoppe.com // By using this code you agree to indemnify // The Design Shoppe from from any liability that might arise // from it's use. # This section removes any nasty tags that the # user may have entered in the form fields strip_tags($friendmail1); strip_tags($friendmail2); strip_tags($friendmail3); strip_tags($email); strip_tags($name); # This section sends you a notification email when # the form is used // Your email address (for copies to be sent to you) $emailto = "you@yourdomain.com"; // Your email subject text $esubject = "a page has been sent"; // The email text for copies sent to you $emailtext = " ".$name." has used the tell-a-friend form. Their email address is ".$email." The people they have recommended are: ".$friendmail1." ".$friendmail2." ".$friendmail3." "; # Send the email to you @mail("$emailto", $esubject, $emailtext, "From: $email"); ## This section sends to the recipients // Target page after successful submission $thankyoupage = "thankyou.htm"; // Change the subject text below to suit $tsubject = "A great site"; // Change the text below for the email $ttext = " Hi, A friend or colleague of yours, ".$name.", whose email address is ".$email." thought you may like to visit our site. ".$name." has used our Tell-a-Friend form to send you this email. http://www.yoursite.com "; # This sends the email to the addresses entered @mail("$friendmail1 $friendmail2 $friendmail3", $tsubject, $ttext, "FROM: $email"); # After submission, the target URL header("Location: $thankyoupage"); exit; ?>

Step 2 - The Tell A Friend Form:

Copy and paste the code below and save it as refer.htm (or whatever other name you like). This is the actual form that visitors will complete to recommend your site to others. Ensure you save the file into the same folder as where the tellafriend.php script will be and customize the page to suit your site.

<html> <head> <title>Tell A Friend</title> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body onload="reset()" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> <center> </center> <table width="400" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"> <tr valign="top"> <td valign="middle" align="center"> <p>Complete the details below to send our link to your friends.</p> <form name="tellafriend" action="tellafriend.php" method="post" onsubmit="return checkfields()"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> *your name:</td> <td> <input size="30" name="name" maxlength="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>*your email:</td> <td> <input size="30" name="email" maxlength="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p align="center">please enter your friend's email addresses:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>*email 1:</td> <td> <input size="30" name="friendmail1" maxlength="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>email 2:</td> <td> <input size="30" name="friendmail2" maxlength="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>email 3:</td> <td> <input size="30" name="friendmail3" maxlength="40"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p align="center"> The email that will be sent will contain your name. <br> <input onclick="validate();" type="button" value="click here to send"> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </form> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td valign="middle" align="center"> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

Once you have these two files prepared, create a thankyou.htm page, upload them all to your site and you should be ready to go!

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