Re: How do I make an 'email this page' feature?

Check out the PHP mail function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:03, PHP Tech wrote: > Hi. > > I am on a tight deadline here- I am trying to get a feature on a website I > am creating where you click a link on a page which says 'email this page' > and it takes you to a new page with a form asking you to enter your name, > email and an email address and name of a person you would like to email the > link of the page together with a message. > > In theory this is easy to do- but what would be the best and secure way of > doing it? > > I thought by clicking the link this would be a form sending the url of the > page to the next page and so I could then use $_GET to retrieve this. I > also thought of using $_SERVER and getting the referer web address. Then I > could use this in a hidden field and use the mail() function to mail it off. > > Aren't both these options open to abuse? I was impressed with a feature I > saw on this website- > http://www.chesternovello.com/composer/606/main.html - > at the bottom of the page when you click on Email this page it takes you to > another page without using a form, and it seems to use just html. How do > they do that? I would really like to use a nice PHP script to do this. > > Any ideas? Would be grateful for any thoughts. > > I. Gray