[PHP-DB] how to "email article to a friend"
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I now want to add a new feature to my website: "Email article to a friend"
and I don't know where to start.
I want to add this feature to webpages that are dynamically created from a
mysql database. How do I pull this same info. and send it in an email?
I'm desperately looking for help at the absolute basic level. I'm not even
clear on how I would "grab" the current url from which I want to email.
Please respond to my email directly as I'm on the digest version. I'll print
a summary and post to the list afterwards.
Thank you, Shawna
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Lester June Cabrera
You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email and
use mail( ) function to send it.
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Brian Paulson
visit rather then the entire article.
The reason being is that you put a lot of work in to getting people to
your site to just give them the content, and if you have banners as a
revenue source and you send the entire article you will lose those
pageviews and click through rates.
Just a thought, let me know if you want to do it this way and I will
share with you what we have done.
Thank You
Brian Paulson
Sr. Web Developer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas D. Landmark [mailto:andreas....@noxtension.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:22 AM
To: php...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] how to "email article to a friend"
At 20.06.2001 08:52, you wrote:
>You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email
>and
>use mail( ) function to send it.
that is _not_ a wise way to do it, you should include some form of
restrictions on how many
emails can be sent to a single account within X minutes for example.
Further you should
restrict by HTTP_REFERER (yep it's poor, but it's better than nothing)
so
that a automated
script can't use your email-article-to-a-friend function to "spam"
thousands of people without
any work...
There are quite a few considerations to take into account when writing a
email-article-to-a-friend
function, just to be on the safe side...
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Andreas D Landmark / noXtension
Real Time, adj.:
Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there
and then.
Andreas D. Landmark
>You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email and
>use mail( ) function to send it.
that is _not_ a wise way to do it, you should include some form of
restrictions on how many
emails can be sent to a single account within X minutes for example.
Further you should
restrict by HTTP_REFERER (yep it's poor, but it's better than nothing) so
that a automated
script can't use your email-article-to-a-friend function to "spam"
thousands of people without
any work...
There are quite a few considerations to take into account when writing a
email-article-to-a-friend
function, just to be on the safe side...
--
Andreas D Landmark / noXtension
Real Time, adj.:
Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there
and then.
DanielW
Can anyone tell me how to concatenate text to the value of a cell pulled out
of a table in a while loop? I'm trying to add "mailto:" to an email address
value.
Thanks,
Dan