[thelist] "email to a friend" link

[Matt S.]

thanks Chris, and to everyone else who responded. Definitely plenty to work
with :)

.matt

Chris Blessing wrote:

> Matt, I set something up exactly like this using some simple ASP pages.  The
> link itself ("Send this page to a friend") contains the URL to be sent (the
> current page URL, found in ASP with request.servervariables("url")) like
> such:
>
> <%
> dim theURL
> theURL = request.servervariables("url")
> %>
>
> <A HREF="/sendToFriend.asp?link=<% = server.urlencode(theURL) %>">Send this
> page</A>
>
> On sendToFriend.asp, there's a simple form which posts back to
> sendToFriend.asp with the sender's name, email and comments, and the
> recipients name and email (and of course the URL to be sent, in a hidden
> field).  All that info goes into a database table before being mailed.  Then
> I compose a simple mail message (we use ASPMail) and it gets shipped off and
> they get a success message, yada yada.  Pretty standard stuff.
>
> HTH!
>
> Chris Blessing
> webguy at mail.rit.edu
> http://www.330i.net
>
> > Can anyone recommend a good way to do this? when clicked, it
> > would take them
> > to a new screen, where they would fill in the recipients email, their
> > own name and email, and a brief message, and it would send all this plus
> > the URL for the page they came from to the recipient. Basically, its
> > your standard" email to a friend" feature, like you find on any news
> > site. I wouldn't want to grab the contents of the page, just the URL,
> > and the email it created would be a simple HTML email, containing some
> > simple branding (logo in the corner).
> >
> > tia,
> >
> > .matt
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