RE: [PHP-DB] how to "email article to a friend"

I would suggest that you send the link to the page that you want them to 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 bpaulson@chieftain.com The Pueblo Chieftain www.chieftain.com 1-800-279-6397 -----Original Message----- From: Andreas D. Landmark [mailto:andreas.landmark@noxtension.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:22 AM To: php-db@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... -- Andreas D Landmark / noXtension Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net