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Vahid · #1 (**permalink**) 03-04-2007, 12:31 AM

Hi,

Recommend us script is one of the effective viral marketing tools. It is highly "recommended" to have a recommend us page and let visitors refer others to your website.

Here is the recommend us script I have created. You just need to replace the YourURL with your own domain name. Enjoy!

PHP Code:

  
<?

///////////////////////////////////////

//This script is creadted by Vahid Chaychi at http://www.weboma.com

//You need to customize it for your website. The only thing you need

//to do is replacing the YourURL.com with your website URL.

///////////////////////////////////////

 
if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'] == NULL){

$sitename = 'http://www.YourURL.com';

} else {

$sitename = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'];

}

if($_POST['email']){

$address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$yourname = $_POST['yourname'];

$youremail = $_POST['youremail'];

$email = $_POST['email'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

if($message != 'NA'){

$come = '<p align="justify"><b> ' . $message . '</font> </b></p>';

}

$themessage = '

<p>Hello,</p>

<p align="justify">Your friend <b><u>' . $yourname . '</u></b> has sent you an invitation to visit our site.</p>

<p align="justify">Please visit our site at: <a href="' . $sitename . ' " target="_blank">http://www.YourURL.com</a></p>

<p align="justify">Your friend also attached a message, which was:</p><hr color="#FF0000" width="80%" align="left" size="1"><p><b>' . $come . '</b></p><hr color="#FF0000" width="80%" align="left" size="1">

<p>Very truly yours,<br>YourURL.com<br>-------------------------------------</p>

<p><b>Note:</b><br>

' . $yourname . ' IP address is <u>' . $address . '</u>.</p>

';

$subj= "A Message From: " . $yourname . " "; 

$header = "Return-Path: " . $email . "\r\n"; 

$header .= "From: $yourname <" . $youremail . ">\r\n"; 

$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1;\n\n\r\n"; 

 
@mail ($email,"$subj",$themessage,$header);

$message2 = '<font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Thank You For Recommending YourURL To Your Friends!</b></font><br>

<font size="2" face="Arial">You can use the form again to recommend us to your other friends.</font><br>

';

}

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Recommend YourURL.com To Your Friends</title>

</head>

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">

<br><br><br>

<form action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post" name="tellfrnd" id="tellfrnd" onSubmit="return validatetell(this)">

<p style="margin-left: 110">

<?

if($message2 != NULL){

echo $message2; } ?>

</p>

<hr color="#FF0000" size="1" width="90%">

<div align="center">

<center>

<table width="723" border="0" cellpadding="2" height="1">

<tr> 

<td width="715" height="22" colspan="3">

<p style="margin-left: 5">

<font size="4" color="#0683FF"><b>Recommend YourURL.com To Your Friends &amp; Partners:</b></font></td>

</tr>

<tr> 

<td width="202" height="22">

<p align="right"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Your Name:</font></b></td>

<td width="513" height="22" colspan="2">

<input name="yourname" type="text" id="yourname" size="28"></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="202" height="1" valign="middle">

<p align="right"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Your Email 

Address:</font></b></td>

<td width="513" height="1" colspan="2">

<input name="youremail" type="text" id="email" size="28"></td>

</tr>

<tr> 

<td width="202" height="1" valign="middle">

<p align="right"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Your Friend's Email 

Address:</font></b></td>

<td width="513" height="1" colspan="2">

<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="28"></td>

</tr>

<tr> 

<td width="202" height="1" valign="top">

<p align="right"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Your Message:</font></b></td>

<td width="513" height="1" valign="top" colspan="2">

<textarea name="message" id="message" rows="5" cols="42"></textarea></td>

</tr>

<tr> 

<td height="24" width="202">

<p align="center">&nbsp;</td>

<td width="351" height="24">

<p align="center">

<input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;color:#0065CE;font-size:8pt; font-family:Arial" value="Submit The Form"></strong></font></td>

<td width="157" height="24">&nbsp;</td>

</tr>

</table>

</center>

</div>

</form>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p align="center"><b><font size="1" face="Arial">

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.YourURL.com/">www.YourURL.com</a></font></b></p>

</body>

</html>

<script>

function validatetell(object){

var valid = true;

if(object.yourname.value == 0){

alert("Please Enter Your Name!");

object.yourname.focus();

return false;

}

if (object.email.value.indexOf("@")==-1 || object.email.value.indexOf(".")==-1 || object.email.value.indexOf(" ")!=-1 || object.email.value.length<6){

alert("Please Enter At Least One Valid Email!");

object.email.focus();

return false;

}

if(object.message.value == 0){

object.message.value = 'NA';

}

return valid;

}

</script>

DarkSociologist · #2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2007, 03:18 PM

Nice script. Having an email sent out to your friends is definitely a good promotional tool. This would be especially useful if it was easy to embed in a blog, following each post.

It's hard to tell by just looking at the code, but it seems like you only recommend a pre-defined address "http://www.yourURL.com" A feature that I would like to see is that the script dynamically grabs the page url. That way you can send your friend a specific story from a blog, rather than the generic home page.

Damon · #3 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 12:06 AM

Thanks Vahid,

That is a nice script. I added it to the bottom of each of my blog posts, and even in my sidebar. You can see an example here:

Professionals have coaches, amateurs do not

However, during my testing, it's not sending an email to the address that I put in there. Is there something else I have to edit?

Damon · #4 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 03:15 PM

I'm still not able to have the email send the email address I put in the field.

I use yahoo webhosting. Is there something in the code that I need to update for this to happen?

I've also added my header to my recommend page, here is the actual page:

Recommend DamonClifford.com To Your Friends

DarkSociologist · #5 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damon

I'm still not able to have the email send the email address I put in the field.

I use yahoo webhosting. Is there something in the code that I need to update for this to happen?

I've also added my header to my recommend page, here is the actual page:

Recommend DamonClifford.com To Your Friends

Some servers don't allow sendmail because of the abuse potential (like you can create a mail bomb script). Yahoo would probably be a good candidate for something like that.

I would also try changing "Return-Path:" to simply "To:" and see if that does anything.

Damon · #6 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 11:43 PM

Thanks for the tip DarkSociologist,

I changed it, and it still doesn't seem to work correctly. I'll look into it more.

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