»»» Send to a friend / tell a friend using php

This example shows you how to add a "tell a friend" about this website website using php. Excellent for making dynamic content on a website or generating income from you revenue partners by rotating their text links.

First of all we need to create our form for entering the friends email address , your name and your email address.

Here is the form example.

<form action = "tellafriend.php" method="post">
Friends email : <input type = "text" name ="friend"><br>
Your name : <input type = "text" name ="yourname"><br>
Your email : <input type = "text" name ="yourmail"><br>
<input type ="submit" value = "tell friend">
</form>

As you can see this sends the form to our script tellafriend.php , this script uses PHP's mail () function. You can change the entries in your own script , the second entry is what is displayed in the emails subject (the title) and the next is the actual message itself.

Here is the code example.

<?php
//send to a friend mail with form values
mail("$friend" , "Flashgimp Rocks" , "Found this great site called http://www.flashgimp.com","From: \"$yourname\" $yourmail\n");
echo ("Your email to $friend has been sent, thank you");
?>

»»» No output... try it on your own page!

You can drop this snippet anywhere you like, it can be either PHP, or HTML or anything else. You will basically have the page with a form and a seperate page called "tellafriend.php"

When the person hits the submit button on the form, his values are posted to the form processor "tellafriend.php" and the info is mailed using php's mail() function.