easy to use Tell-A-Friend script

Install this script on your website, you will get a “Send to Friend” button which people can click to email the current page to their friends! Easy to setup.

Features:

• NEW ! 23rd Nov 2011 – reCAPTCHA to stop spam
• Add a link to any website and allow visitors to easily “share” the page with their friends via email.
• User can customise the page title and description.
• Optional comment that is emailed along with page.
• You have control over the format of the email that gets sent, style it with your website branding!
• Normal javascript popup mode, or a nice lightbox popover mode so the user doesn’t leave your website.
• Automatically reads images from the page, and allows the user to pick an image if they want to share it along with the page.
• Configuration settings to tweak some of the inner workings.
• Optional Twitter and Facebook sharing options

How to install:

1. Unzip the file you downloaded from CodeCanyon
2. Upload the “send_to_friend/” folder to your website (eg: yourwebsite.com/send_to_friend/)
3. Add this script tag to your website:
   

   <script src="/send_to_friend/popup.php?js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
   

4. Create a link on your website like this:
   

   <a href="/send_to_friend/popup.php" class="sendtofriend" title="Send to Friend">Send Page To Friend</a>
   

5. Done!
   
   (replace yourwebsite.com with your actual website above)

How to customise:

• Open send_to_friend/popup.php in Wordpad or your favourite PHP editor (eg: Dreamweaver Code View)
• Look at the top for these configuration options:
  

  $email_address = 'example@example.com'; // enter your email address here. 
  $website_name = 'My Website Name'; // enter your website name here.
  $allow_images = true; // allows the user to select images
  $allow_comment = true; // allow a custom comment from the user.
  $send_bcc = false; // change this to true if you would like to receive a BCC of every email that gets sent.
  $email_subject = 'Your friend sent you a page';
  $restrict_domain = true; // only allow pages from your website to be sent
  $popup_width = 810; // how wide the popup will appear on the page
  $popup_height = 550; // how tall the popup will appear on the page
  

• Open the file send_to_friend/sendfiles/email.html in Wordpad or your favourite HTML editor (eg: Dreamweaver)
  This is the email that will get sent to visitors friends. You can style this email to match your website.
• You can open popup.php and change the HTML and CSS code if you want a new layout.
• You can edit the provided sliced Photoshop document and re-export the graphics if you wish to change any layouts.
• You can pass these custom parameters to the popup.php file, if you want to integrate this into your website programming:
  • /popup.php?url=somewebsite.com/somepage.html
  • /popup.php?title=Overwrite+Default+Page+Title+Here
  • /popup.php?description=Overwrite+Default+Page+Descriptoin+Here
  • /popup.php?images=/images/a1.jpg|/images/a2.jpg|/images/a3.jpg
  • or all together:
    /popup.php?url=somewebsite.com/somepage.html&title=Overwrite+Default+Page+Title+Here
    &description=Overwrite+Default+Page+Descriptoin+Here
    &images=/images/a1.jpg|/images/a2.jpg|/images/a3.jpg

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.