Re: [PHP-DB] how to email article to a friend
You can query your database to extract those info, compose your email and use mail( ) function to send it. At 02:22 PM 6/19/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie and have only worked with php to send email from webform input. I now want to add a new feature to my website: Email article to a friend and I don't know where to start. I want to add this feature to webpages that are dynamically created from a mysql database. How do I pull this same info. and send it in an email? I'm desperately looking for help at the absolute basic level. I'm not even clear on how I would grab the current url from which I want to email. Please respond to my email directly as I'm on the digest version. I'll print a summary and post to the list afterwards. Thank you, Shawna -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Lester June Cabrera Chief Web Programmer I-Quest Corporation Tel: (632) 867 8150 local 302 or 309 Fax: (63 2) 867 8077 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the most comprehensive on-line business travel resource at http://www.worldroom.com Successful events start here. Visit http://www.worldroomevents.com . The one-stop online exchange for event planners and suppliers to the MICE industry. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Pueblo Chieftain www.chieftain.com 1-800-279-6397 -Original Message- From: Andreas D. Landmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
