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Benzer
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 12:06 pm Post subject: Email the post to a friend |
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This code will let anyone send the post to a friend via email. It displays a panel with three text fields. The panel is big so you may want to reduce it; edit the table tags or do whatever you want if you know what you are doing.
Put this code inside the b2 loop :
| Code: | <form action="sentmail.php3" method="post">
<table border=1 bordercolor="#555555" width="95%" align="center">
<tr><td colspan=2 border=1 align="center"><b>:: Send this post to a friend ::</b></td></tr>
<tr><td width="55">
>>From:</td><td><input type="text" name="fromemail" size="20"> (your name or email)</td></tr>
<tr><td> >>To:</td><td><input type="text" name="mailto" size="20"> (recipient email)</td></tr>
<tr><td> >>Short message:</td><td><textarea name="msgsender" cols="43" rows="3"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2 align="right">
<input type=submit name=ok value='send'>
<input type=reset name=reset value='clear'>
</td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="postID" value="<?php the_ID() ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="postauthor" value="<?php the_author() ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="authoremail" value="<?php the_author_email() ?>">
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Then, create a new file named sentmail.php3 and save it in the same folder as your blog file. Copy-paste this code in it:
| Code: | <?php
include ("blog.header.php");
global $tableposts,$siteurl,$blogfilename;
$get_post=mysql_query("SELECT post_content,post_title,post_date FROM $tableposts WHERE ID='$postID'");
$the_post=mysql_fetch_object($get_post);
$the_post_tx=stripslashes($the_post->post_content);
$subject=stripslashes($the_post->post_title);
$the_date=$the_post->post_date;
$date.=date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");
if(!preg_match("/^([a-z,0-9,-,_,.])+@([a-z,0-9,-,_,.])+(.([a-z,0-9])+)+$/", $mailto))
{
$error = "<script language=\"javascript\">setTimeout(\"history.go(-1);\",3000);</script><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\">There are invalid characters in the <b>recipient e-mail address</b></font></font><br>";
}
if ($error)
{
echo $error;
echo "<br><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\">Click back on your browser or wait 3 seconds.</font>.";
exit;
}
if ($error=="")
{
?>
<p><font face="verdana" size="2"><script language="javascript">setTimeout("history.go(-1);",3000);</script><br><br>The post has been sent to <?php echo $mailto ?>.</font></p>
<?
}
$body="Message sent on $date.
From: $fromemail
e-mail: $mailto
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Short message from the sender:
==> $msgsender
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Author: $postauthor ( $authoremail )
Title: $subject
Date: $the_date
Site: $siteurl/$blogfilename?p=$postID
$the_post_tx
-------------------------";
mail($mailto, $subject, $body, "From: $fromemail X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
exit;
?>
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Enjoy !
Albert Benzer http://benzer.arkania.org |
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GamerZ
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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hmm i also created this LOL
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Benzer
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| GamerZ wrote: | | hmm i also created this LOL |
So now it has been done twice. xD |
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GamerZ
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Benzer wrote: | | GamerZ wrote: | | hmm i also created this LOL |
So now it has been done twice. xD |
LOL, i think urs more complicated. Mine is simple, still noob in php Hehe
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sami
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject: putting "email to friend" link at end of article |
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Hi. My weblog is a collective weblog. The first paragraph of each article posting is shown on the main page, with "more" links to the full articles. I'd like to add an "email this article to a friend" link at the end of the full articles (not at the end of the snippets on the main page). How would I do this?
Thanks,
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Benzer
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject: All you have to do is ... |
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Make sure the author email and ID are the correct ones and that's it; most likely you won't have to change anything.
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sami
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:01 am Post subject: |
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well, right now the form is appended to the end of the "teasers" of each posting. I'd like the form to only appear at the end of each full posting (which appears when the "more" link is clicked).
sorry, i don't know any php...
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Benzer
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:47 am Post subject: |
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I see that you are using the same php file to display the list of preview posts and the complete posts. So, all you have to do is to set an "if" statement that will make the "send mail to a friend" function run only if the "more" link is clicked.
You can do this by adding a boolean variable (true/false) that will change when the "more" link is clicked, and the "if" statement will check it.
Dig into code and work it out. Only way to learn.
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sami
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ok, thank you benzer, I will try what you suggest. |
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alex_t_king
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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I also created a version of this, mine is in a pop-up window and I did the reg. expression checking of the email address in javascript, client side. Feel free to view source and use or suggest improvements to the client side reg. expression.
in action: http://www.alexking.org/blog/
I added in a very basic little check to make it ever so slightly harder for this to be abused by potential spammers. I hope it isn't an issue - maybe I should have links to open relays for them
I'm using an email class I already had written for another part of my site so I'd have to do some work to package it up right now. Maybe we can merge all of these into a single polished hack.
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kichu
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| Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| alex_t_king wrote: |
I'm using an email class I already had written for another part of my site |
Could you please lead me to it!
Thanks
S.K
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alex_t_king
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| alex_t_king wrote: | | I'm using an email class I already had written for another part of my site so I'd have to do some work to package it up right now. |
Sorrry for the confusion, what I meant was that this is currently integrated into some other functionality on my web site. I can separate it and package it up separately in a zip file if there is enough demand for it. I'm sure that most PHP savvy folks can use the code Albert has generously provided for us.
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