Send blog link to a friend

Placebo

Hey Guys,
Basically visitors can ADD friends.
And under each post will be a link 'send to a friend' and they will be able to select who to send it to from a listbox.

-Ive got the add and listbox being populated
but having hard time grasping the concept of email being sent to several users,

A- should i just modify this plugin
http://www.lostpixels.nl/staf/
it uses a .js script to send mails...

B- It merely just sends a link, is it possible to send the article embed?

thanks

louie

are you populating a multi-select menu or just a list inside a div?
You can use checkboxes, multiselect menu and store them into an array, than loop through each one and sent the emails.
You can also refence the article or post by ID in a hidden field, and before sending the email get the data from the DB.

Is that what you are looking for?

Placebo

thanks louie, im just doing it all from scratch, those plugins are useless !

can someone help me out quickly, basically sending the blog/post url link as var and im reading it in the emailer php page

so

$num = $_GET;

echos fine, but when i sent it in the body of the php mail function it arrives empty?

[PHP]
$friend_name = 'xxx';
$friend_email = $tolist;


$to = $friend_email;
$from = $user_email;
$subject = 'xxxx'
$body = "this wont work".$test."wont work";

$headers = "From: ".$from."\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: php";
[/PHP]

louie

Not all of them are useless, but some just doesn't keep up with the blog updates.

Placebo

well customising them is a bigger headache so best off doing it myself.
edited post above ^

louie

are you sure, you are setting the url post to $test?
It seems to me that is set as $num.

Placebo

sorry i tried
doing $test = $num

like i can echo num but it wont show in the body
strange

louie

can you show us the entire code for the email part?

Placebo

thanks for this
[PHP]<form action="list2.php" method="post">
<select name="listbox[]" multiple="multiple" size=5>
<option value="farzad.qasim@cognitivecorp.com">Cog Farz</option>
<option value="qasimf@tcd.ie">Tcd Farz</option>

</select><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>



<?php





$addlist=$_REQUEST;
if ($addlist){
foreach ($addlist as $t)
{
$tolist .= $t.",";
}
}
$tolist = substr($tolist,0,strlen($tolist)-1); // remove the trailing comma



$num = $_GET;


echo($num);



$friend_name = 'xxx';
$friend_email = $tolist;

$to = $friend_email;
$from = $user_email;
$subject = "whatever";
$body = $num;

$headers = "From: ".$from."\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: php";

$success = 0;
if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)){
$success = 1;
}
?>[/PHP]

louie

Add a hidden field to the form itself and set its value to the page URL.

[php]

<input type="hidden" name="c_url" id="c_url" value="<?php echo $_SERVER.$_SERVER;?> />

//...then grab the post
$num = $_POST;
..............
[/php]

Placebo

thanks for this louie, worked well, although after submit, the silly url reverts back to normal stage which means if someone trys to submit again, it wont have the URL stored.

any way i can avoid this ? i really do need everything in same php file.

louie

store the url as a session and reset it ( session ) if the page gets refreshed.

Placebo

thats worked great thanks man, shuda thought of it

louie

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