Thread: Tell A Friend

Can someone please point me toward a "Tell-A-Friend" program or script (I'm not sure of the techno terms). I just want to allow my purchasers to recommend my site to their friends by signing them up on a form that will send their friends an email note.

My skill level is "newbie", so I need it in simple terms. I know there has to be some postings somewhere about this, but I can't find it through a word search.

Someone may have a better one, but this one does the trick. Just paste it into an html box in BV, edit the lines in maroon to suit your needs and you're done.


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
//Script by Trånn: http://come.to/tronds
//Submitted to JavaScript Kit (http://javascriptkit.com)
//Visit http://javascriptkit.com for this script
var initialsubj="Email subject line here"
var initialmsg="Email text here: "+window.location
var good;
function checkEmailAddress(field) {
var goodEmail = field.value.match(/\b(^(\S+@).+((\.com)|(\.net)|(\.edu)|(\.mil)|(\.go v)|(\.org)|(\.info)|(\.sex)|(\.biz)|(\.aero)|(\.co op)|(\.museum)|(\.name)|(\.pro)|(\..{2,2}))$)\b/gi);
if (goodEmail) {
good = true;
}
else {
alert('Please enter a valid address.');
field.focus();
field.select();
good = false;
}
}
u = window.location;
function mailThisUrl() {
good = false
checkEmailAddress(document.eMailer.email);
if (good) {
//window.location = "<A href="mailto:"+document.eMailer.email.value+"?subj ect="+initialsubj+"&body="+document.title">mailto: "+document.eMailer.email.value+"?subject="+initial subj+"&body="+document.title+" "+u;
window.location = "<A href="mailto:"+document.eMailer.email.value+"?subj ect="+initialsubj+"&body="+initialmsg">mailto:"+do cument.eMailer.email.value+"?subject="+initialsubj +"&body="+initialmsg
}
}
// End -->
</script>

<form name="eMailer">
Tell a friend:
<input type="text" name="email" size="26" value=" Enter Address Here" onFocus="this.value=''" onMouseOver="window.status='Enter email address here and tell a friend about this site...'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='';return true">
<br>
<center><input type="button" value="Send this now!" onMouseOver="window.status='Click to send an email (with this page address) to a friend! Enter email address above...'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='';return true" onClick="mailThisUrl();">
</form>

Hey Racefan20,

I copied and pasted the script you provided. Is there a way to customize how many friends the email can be sent to?

If I use another company's script would I just paste it in the same way? Do I desigate a new page just for a bigger script?

You'll need to ask someone smarter than me about that - forms are not a strong suit of mine.

Thanks, I'll keep looking.

Tell A Friend Script