silverfox63
12-13-2001, 07:46 PM
Hi, has anybody seen decent email to a friend coldfusion script, could i pass the link to be sent as a query string.
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silverfox
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For continued disscussion on this topic : coldfusion email to a freind....... jonsteele 12-17-2001, 11:12 PM I haven't been able to find one, but you could write your own! All you need is the CFMAIL tag. We can help you out if you get stuck. Jon silverfox63 12-18-2001, 07:43 PM hi Jon, below is my first effort for the "email to friend script". I got an error from the <a href="#URL.article#>#URl.article#</a> in the <cfmail> tag. I realize there is not a proper server name there yet. The page is fed by passing the relevant artcile as a query string like so: <a href="emailtoafriend.cfm?article=childrensgrowth.html">Email this article to a friend</a> Any constructive criticism is appreciated. thanks silverfox --------------------------------------------- <html> <head> <title>Untitled</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <cfif IsDefined("URL.article")> <cfoutput> You would like a link to the article <a href=#URL.article#>#URL.article#</a> to be sent to a friend. </cfoutput> </cfif> <cfif IsDefined("process")> <cfmail to="#email#" server="servername" port="25" from="#youremail#" subject="Great website...."> #message# Click below to read the article <a href=##URL.article##>#URL.article#</a> </cfmail> <cfelse> <blockquote> <form name="aform" method="post" action="emailtoyou.cfm"> <input type="hidden" name="process" value="1"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td>Your email:</td><td><input type="text" name="youremail" size="30" maxlength="30"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Recipients email:</td><td><input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="30"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Additional message:</td><td><textarea cols="34" rows="6" wrap="virtual" name="message">Hi there, just thought you might be interested in this article from http://www.karekam.com </textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td><td><input type="submit" value="Send to a friend"> <input type="reset" value="Reset the form"></td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> </cfif> </body> </html> jonsteele 12-18-2001, 10:49 PM Hi Why the double # in the mail body? Also, you should add type="HTML" in the cfmail tag if you're going to be using html tags in the email. Besides that, I would change the logic a little. How about having the form on each article page, the code being included from one file for all articles. Then the form would go to a page which sends the email, and then redirects back to the article. Something like this is an external file (which could easily be included on an article page): <form action="sendtofriend.cfm" method="post" name="sendtofriendform"> <input type="hidden" name="article_name" value="<cfoutput>#article_name#</cfoutput>"> <input type="hidden" name="article_link" value="<cfoutput>#article_link#</cfoutput>"> your email <input name="from"> friend email <input name="to"> <textarea name="message_body">default message body</textarea> <input type="submit" value="Send" name="submit"> </form> Then on the sendtofriend.cfm page, you would send the mail and redirect back to the article. <cfmail to="#to#" server="servername" port="25" from="#from#" subject="Great website...."> #message body# article: #article_name# link: #article_link# </cfmail> <cflocation url="#article_url#"> Do you see how that differs? you would include the first peice of code on every article page, set some variables which can be used beforehand (article_link, article_name, etc.). This would avoid a step for the user (having to click a url to see the form) and would avoid people sending fake urls by editing the url query string themselves ;). Jon silverfox63 12-19-2001, 06:17 PM Hi Jon, yes I do see the logic of the above script and i will most likely implement your version, however, one small point I would like to clear up is this. Can I not include a URL variable inside a <cfmail> tag. Because the only error I got with the original script was that the URL.article variable was not recognized. thanks silverfox jonsteele 12-19-2001, 11:45 PM Could it be because of the double # around the variable name? vBulletin® v3.6.4, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
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